Our Daily Trader portfolio scan generated following trade ideas for August 5th, 2014. These are short-term trading ideas that are normally closed either the same day or in next few days.
- Gannett Co, Inc. (GCI)
- Direction: Long
- Entry: 34.54
- Stop: 31.09
- Target: 35.92
- Pattern: Expanding Candle
- Insmed Inc. (INSM)
- Direction: Short
- Entry: 12.47
- Stop: 13.25
- Target: 11.92
- Pattern: Expansion Bar / Support Break / Gap Down
Previous Trades Update:
Two of our trades triggered on August 4th. If you have not already closed them then modify the stops and target levels.
- WU (short) – modify stop to 17.09 and target to 16.68
- LNKD (long) – update stop to 198.62 and target 205.92
Trades triggered on August 1st:
- AEM (short) closed with 1.1% gain
- CFN (short) returned 0.7% gain
- HST (short) lost 1.0%
- IJR (short) closed for 0.6% loss
- KBE (short) closed for 1.2% gain
- PWR (short) closed for 1.4% loss
- SIAL (short) lost 0.6%
Please Note: These are short-term trade ideas that we normally close in a day or two. Some of the trades are held longer based upon the price action. If there is abnormal price action then act accordingly to either lock-in the profit or limit the loss. We do send out alerts if there is any abnormal price action. Remember to check this site for alerts and further updates.
- We usually avoid taking a position if there is big gap-up or gap-down.
- If there is a gap-up or gap-down then if in the first half hour there is a snap-back or pull-back to our original entry then we take that unless the price ran away too much and then snapped-back or pulled-back
- If there is no snap-back or pull-back in the first thirty minute then we wait for the ORB (Opening Range Break - a break above or below the first thirty minute candle - in the original trade direction
- If the entry is based upon the ORB then the stop is usually beyond the other end of the bar.
- Remember to position size based upon your risk-tolerance