Since 2018, Sean has served the financial community as Chief Options Strategist for All Star Charts, sharing his unique style of options trading, leveraging the best-in-class technical analysis offered by the All Star Charts research team.
In all endeavors, Sean has been consistent in building a support system around himself and for others that he wishes he had when he started out back in 1998.
Stop losses. Profit targets. They’re there for a reason. They say, “This is as far as I’m willing to go.” They define my comfort zone — both for risk and for reward.
If a trade moves beyond my stop, I start losing more than I’m okay with.
If a stock races beyond my upper price target, I start to worry it’s overextended and due for a sharp correction.
These aren’t just technical lines on a chart — they’re psychological lines in the sand. And as much as I know they’re important, I’ll admit: boundaries are hard for me.
Sometimes I break them.
Sometimes I blur them.
Sometimes I forget why I set them in the first place.
And the more time I spend in the markets, the more I realize:
Trading teaches me about far more than markets — it teaches me about me.
Every time I ignore a stop loss or stretch a target, I’m not just failing as a trader — I’m revealing something deeper about how I operate. Because when I struggle to hold boundaries in my trading, it’s usually because I’m struggling to hold boundaries in other parts of my life, too.
Semis just failed to complete a top relative to the broader market and are now reasserting their leadership.
If this risk-on group is in good shape, then stocks are likely to perform well in the future. So this is a positive development from a broader market perspective.
So today's trade is in a lesser known semiconductor name that is atop the relative strength leaderboard.