{"id":20619,"date":"2023-02-21T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=20619"},"modified":"2023-02-21T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T12:30:09","slug":"the-most-important-32-trading-days-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-most-important-32-trading-days-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important 32 Trading Days This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrew&rsquo;s Note:<\/strong> My colleague Larry Benedict is a legendary trader and editor of <em>The Opportunistic Trader. <\/em>From 2009 through 2011, Larry and his fund made over $81 million in profit just from trading on 32 specific days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He says that even if you ignore the other 200+ trading days in the year, you&rsquo;ll be ahead if you just pay attention to these 32 events&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT717026&#038;eid=MKT719179&#038;oneClick=true&#038;plcid=PLC171006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tomorrow at 8 p.m. ET,<\/a> he&rsquo;s sharing which days he&rsquo;s talking about&hellip; and the reason their profit potential is amplified.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will he give you his latest market commentary and expectations for 2023&hellip; he&rsquo;ll also be making an offer he&rsquo;s never made before&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT717026&#038;eid=MKT719179&#038;oneClick=true&#038;plcid=PLC171006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click right here<\/a> to instantly put your name on the list to attend his special briefing.<\/p>\n<p>And below read on to see what Larry says about a phenomenon happening this year that traders can use to profit&hellip;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin-bottom:20px;\">\n<p>Investing is on pause&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>The post-COVID stock markets seemed invincible&hellip; until last year wiped out $18 trillion worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Now people are understandably nervous to put their money into stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Because while two down years in a row is rare&hellip; when it does happen, the second year tends to hit even harder.<\/p>\n<p>And recession fears are compounding the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta have all chopped workers with big layoffs&hellip; Big tech has cut more than 330,000 jobs since January last year. That&rsquo;s heightening fears that these kinds of moves could spread throughout the economy.<\/p>\n<p>And retail purchases fell three out of the past four months as consumers tightened their wallets.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why a poll of economists put the probability of a recession this year at 61%&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One Morgan Stanley analyst said the upcoming pullback in company earnings could rival 2008. And that could push the S&amp;P 500 down 3,000 points in the first quarter alone. A Bank of America analyst anticipates the market slump continuing into summer.<\/p>\n<p>All that hardly bodes well for 2023.<\/p>\n<p>So the days of buying a high-flying stock and expecting to retire early are in the rearview mirror.<\/p>\n<p>But I&rsquo;ve never really bought into &ldquo;buy and hold&rdquo; investing&hellip; and I steered clear of much of the irrational exuberance surrounding meme stocks and crypto fever.<\/p>\n<p>And I&rsquo;m not concerned about making money this year.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&rsquo;m excited about what I see in 2023. Because there&rsquo;s a phenomenon happening this year that traders can use to profit &ndash; even if this year continues the bloodbath.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, this phenomenon can work even better than ever in down markets like these.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain&hellip;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Profiting Even in a Down Year<\/h2>\n<p>I&rsquo;m a trader at heart. I&rsquo;ve spent over 35 years eating and breathing the markets and learning how they move in all kinds of environments.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 2008 financial crisis, I made $95 million for myself, my partners, and my clients.<\/p>\n<p>And in my career as a hedge fund manager, I went 20 solid years without a losing year.<\/p>\n<p>These aren&rsquo;t just long-ago achievements either.<\/p>\n<p>Even last year, when most people were deeply red&hellip; my Opportunistic Trader advisory ended December with an overall 155% gain on the year.<\/p>\n<p>And in <em>The S&amp;P Trader<\/em>, a $25,000 investment would have generated $9.5k in income&hellip; that&rsquo;s a 38% return.<\/p>\n<p>As for <em>One Ticker Trader<\/em>, we only launched in August. So we don&rsquo;t have full-year returns yet&hellip; But during those first five months, we snowballed 11 trades into a total 240% return on our initial cash investment.<\/p>\n<p>And remember, this was in a year that erased <em>$18 trillion<\/em> from the stock market globally.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime readers will know that a big part of my &ldquo;secret sauce&rdquo; includes conservative risk management &ndash; I recommend starting with small position sizes and working your way up over time.<\/p>\n<p>I always want traders to <em>earn their risk<\/em> by slowly building their portfolios&hellip; instead of blowing themselves up on a single trade.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, I always take profits quickly, even if they&rsquo;re small, instead of swinging for the fences. That&rsquo;s one of the biggest mistakes traders can make.<\/p>\n<p>But there&rsquo;s one other aspect to trading that I&rsquo;ve never really discussed with my readers&hellip;<\/p>\n<table bgcolor=\"#eeeeee\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: 1px solid #D7D7D7; margin-bottom:20px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-left: 15px;padding-right: 15px; padding-top: 15px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px; line-height:24px;\">\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Free Trading Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px\">Have you checked out Jeff&#8217;s free trading resources on his website? It contains a selection of special reports, training videos, and a full trading glossary to help kickstart your trading career \u2013 at zero cost to you. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to check it out.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Amplified Profits<\/h2>\n<p>Lately, the government has had an outsized influence on the stock markets. And that has handed traders a gift&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Because 32 &ldquo;money shocks&rdquo; in the market are now primed to generate bigger gains than in past years.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, from 2009 through 2011, I helped my fund make $81,208,050 in profit just by trading on the dates when these shocks occur<\/p>\n<p>And the profit potential I see now is even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>So while traditional investing may be on pause for many people this year&hellip; I don&rsquo;t want you to sit on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you ignore the other 200+ trading days in the year, you&rsquo;ll be ahead if you just pay attention to these 32 events&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why I&rsquo;m planning to share which days I&rsquo;m talking about&hellip; and the reason their profit potential is amplified&hellip; at my upcoming special briefing.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m calling it the <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT717026&#038;eid=MKT719179&#038;oneClick=true&#038;plcid=PLC171009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Money Shock Calendar<\/a>. And it&rsquo;ll go live tomorrow, at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;d like to invite you to join me then.<\/p>\n<p>Because not only will I give you my latest market commentary and expectations for 2023&hellip; I&rsquo;ll also be making an offer I&rsquo;ve never made before.<\/p>\n<p>So, to sign up with just one click, <a href=\"https:\/\/signup.opportunistictrader.com\/?cid=MKT717026&#038;eid=MKT719179&#038;oneClick=true&#038;plcid=PLC171009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go right here<\/a> to put your name on the list to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Larry Benedict<br \/>Editor, <em>Trading With Larry Benedict<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days of buying a high-flying stock and expecting to retire early are in the rearview mirror\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[58],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-20619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-larry-benedict"],"acf":[],"ai_tts_audio_outdated":false,"ai_tts_legacy_post":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=20619"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=20619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}