this stock was down a bunch about 20% and I was just watching it on my other screen all day. at around 11:25 I notice that over the last 20mins It just consolidated under 19 and just couldn't get above. Now if it gets above finally, it can shoot straight up about 30cents in a heartbeat so I just started with 1 lot, ten minutes later I added another lot at 18.89 it started to drop to .64 and came back up to .89 then went down to .70 and consolidated again, I gave another lot. It goes down again and comes up for another lower high and I notice that it is stopping at a trendline, so I draw the trendline. the next time it touches the trendline I added another with a tight stop. It dropped all the way to 17.95 and I was up a lot but there was no reason to sell so I didn't. I was still waiting for the trendline break for me to exit. It hurt a little and I ended up giving 40% of my paper profit back but I know it was the right thing to do because if that thing decided to drop to $15 I would of still been in waiting for the trendline to break and making a killing. ONE GOOD TRADE
Execution detail:
Date/time | Symbol | Side | Price | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
2014-08-05 11:26:49 | SALE | sell | $18.950 | short |
2014-08-05 11:36:22 | SALE | sell | $18.890 | short |
2014-08-05 12:42:46 | SALE | sell | $18.700 | short |
2014-08-05 13:46:08 | SALE | sell | $18.490 | short |
2014-08-05 14:57:37 | SALE | buy | $18.340 | short |
2014-08-05 14:57:49 | SALE | buy | $18.410 | 0 |
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