Day Chart: big green candle 3 days ago on high volume followed by pullback on 2 smaller candles on lower volume. today's morning low was above last day's low. Looking for move to recent highs.
Buy: stock broke out from morning congestion then pulled back on 4 lower volume red candles. I bought the break of that trend after 2 green candles (with similar volume as red bars mind you) and used recent low as stop.
Sell: stop hit, pattern not valid. stock went up one penny after I entered my position and that was it.
Lesson: on daily, maybe anticipate 3 bars of a pullback vs just 2.
intraday stochastics were falling from 80 line and did not yet crossover positive to head back up. I did anticipate that the stock would follow through and give that confirmation stochs crossover so this fail shouldnt be too much of a surprise.
Execution detail:
Date/time | Symbol | Side | Price | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015-04-20 10:43:00 | NE | buy | $17.260 | long |
2015-04-20 10:48:00 | NE | sell | $17.140 | 0 |
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