Following are our trade ideas for our Daily Trader portfolio for Thursday August 21st, 2014. These are short term trading ideas that are normally closed either the same day or in next few days. Trade nimbly.
- AmericanEagleOutfitters, Inc. (AEO)
- Direction: Long
- Entry: 13.18
- Stop: 12.68
- Target: 13.57
- Pattern: Resistance Break / Gap Up / Expansion Candle
- Ann Inc. (ANN)
- Direction: Long
- Entry: 38.89
- Stop: 37.60
- Target: 40.45
- Pattern: Resistance Break / Expansion Candle
- Century Aluminum Co. (CENX)
- Direction: Long
- Entry: 22.79
- Stop: 22.04
- Target: 23.70
- Pattern: Resistance Break / Expansion Candle / Six Year High
- Lowes Companies, Inc. (LOW)
- Direction: Long
- Entry: 52.76
- Stop: 51.27
- Target: 54.87
- Pattern: Outside Day Reversal / Resistance Break / Expansion Candle / All Time High
- VishayIntertech, Inc. (VSH)
- Direction: Long
- Entry: 15.96
- Stop: 15.60
- Target: 16.60
- Pattern: Expansion Candle / Potential Resistance Break
- Noah Holdings Ltd. (NOAH)
- Direction: Short
- Entry: 14.24
- Stop: 15.00
- Target: 13.80
- Pattern: Expansion Candle / Support Break Down
Previous Trades Update:
Only one trades triggered on August 20th. If you have not already closed it then update stop and target levels.
- FFIV (long) – update the stop to 119.62 and target to 123.25
Trades Triggered on August 19th.
- GRA (long) hit the target for 0.7% gain
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
