When
stocks sell off in a panic based on news, profit opportunities can be large.
In most cases, we usually tend to go opposite of the panic for an exhaustion
bounce. However, when the 3 minute 5 period moving averages can’t hold support,
that’s when its prudent to reverse the position back to the short side. It is
very important that traders are aware of the key levels that MUST be held in
order for exhaustion buyers to come in. If those key levels break, then the
panic is perpetuated even stronger.
This was the case when we played
GOOG on 9/19/06. GOOG formed a massive selling panic when YHOO warned of their
earnings. Rather than stepping into randomly, we sit back and let GOOG try to
bounce by itself. It made an initial bottom at 399 and coiled back up to
402.50s. We saw that the 3 min 5 had resistance there and thus stepped in SHORT
at 402 on the rejection with a trail stop at 403. This triggered the 3minute
mini inverse pup breakdown to selloff GOOG. On mini inverse pup trades, we
target the lower bollinger bands. We caught the move on GOOG down to 397 area
to lock the rest of the shorts out, + 5
Panics are wonderful
opportunities, just make sure that you keep a cool head and stick to the rules.
Good trading gang!
Jea
Yu has been involved with the equities markets for over 10-years. He specializes
with intraday trading in the U.S. equities and futures markets. To receive a
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