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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Wednesday's action

posted by Tom C:

ATYT was a good trade this morning. I entered on a break of the 2nd bar high, and was prepared to exit at break-even after the 2nd bar left a long upper tail. But price recovered as the fourth bar tested the OR high and formed a nice hammer. The target was the Fibonacci extension of the previous day's low to the opening range high...it was hit a short time ago.

I will put up a chart tonight. Have a good day all.

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

ATYT was a great trade. I got in on the break of the 2nd bar, but waited until it cleared the OR high.

I also traded SGMO off the break of 3rd bar high. Extension was hit the same bar! Very thin volume, but surprsingly, the spread was only a cent when I bought and 2 cents when I sold.

Anonymous said...

Atyt might be setting up again above the fib ext.

sgmo was a good trade, Dave...nice wedge or coiled spring as I like to call it!

Trader-X said...

I don't look at pre-market volume, never have.

I don't know that there is a minimum - if there is, it is probably 100K shares in the first 15-minutes. But I don't look at that as a static number - in other words, a stock may have 500,000 volume the first 15-minutes and then die and only have 1.5M for the day. That is why I sort my list by current volume - and, the top 20 constantly change throughout the day.

I look at the spread and see how the stock is moving. In general, the more volume the better but it just depends on the chart, how it moves, and if I am comfortable getting in and out.

Anonymous said...

BOT was a nice setup too. Break of the 2nd bar high and hit the Fib extension 6 bars later, and still higher...I missed it

Trader-X said...

ngnf - I don't look at market depth. Just spread for me...

ex-loser - spotting them is half the battle! I traded BOT and may post that chart tonight. It offered a second set-up above the Fibonacci extension (though a bit sloppy).

Anonymous said...

Thanks Trader-X, I will look at your comments on this chart later.

Anonymous said...

Looking during(most up) and after market(most %)these came up 30 min 1st bar b/o on Scottrade Elite platform: hig cmi bot mon jci str lvs emn os sna 2nd: dell///most %: 2nd: ifo dbrn cien eng atyt wbd 3rd: sgmo snmx 5th: ise. Most were all A's. I usually look at most UP, not most %. I'm going to try most %. Blog is a great help. Thanks. BL