Jul 12, 2007

SWIM - Long

If it's good enough for King Jamie it's good enough for me. I am now going to look at the 15-min chart for my exit regardless of what timeframe I enter on. It's not that I haven't thought about this before, but now I'm going to try to stick to it and make it a routine. It worked well for me today with SWIM... here's the trade on the 10-min chart:

  • Placed fibs. from first bar low to high (strong first bar)
  • Price retraced and bounced of the 50% level (never fell below, bullish sign)
  • Entered on break of 10:10 bar as it closed strong above the 38% level
  • Exited off the 15-min chart when priced closed below the low of the 3:15 candle (also below the 5ema)
10-min

15-min

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey man, WHAT'S UP?

Nice trade on SWIM today, I had my eye on it as well as numerous others today(today was like shooting at fish in a barrel!)
Good to see you back...hope your vaca was awesome.
Keep up the great work!

Bigfish

TJ said...

SWIM - Sweet!

Anonymous said...

great trade and great blog - is the 38% level critical ? so if a pullback reverses to/beyond the 38% fib level that implies it's chances to continue the reversal from the pullback are much better ?? so if a stock pulls back to the 61 or 70% level we should wait until it reverses the pullback to the 38 % level is reached for better odds even if the candles are giving bullish signals ?

Tom T. said...

I think if you look at the 15-min chart you will see a nice hammer candle on bar 3 for SWIM. I forget to switch back between 10 min and 15 min charts to see if a potential entry point lookd good on either chart.

OONR7 said...

@bigfish: thanks man, haven't seen you in awhile either. I'm actually still in the states, but I'm trading this week and next.

@anon: glad you like the blog and you certainly seem to be paying attention. For me, the 38% and 61.8% levels are very important. If a stock gaps up and pulls back beyond the 38 level, it doesn't necessarily mean it will fail, but if it doesn't bounce back up from the 61.8 level there is a good chance of failure. Key thing for me is to wait for price to break back up above the 38% level. SWIM was almost a gimmie stock for me. It never traded below the 50% level and that first bar was very bullish. Just a matter of waiting for an entry.

@jamie: thank you, your majesty :)

@tom t: while the 3rd bar was a nice hammer, it wasn't close enough to the 5ema and didn't have the volume I look for. I would not have entered based on that candle.

Anonymous said...

OONR7: Great trade! Do you remember on which scanner you found SWIM? Good day my friend.

JJ2000426 said...

SWC had a very nice rally today. This is a great entry for this incredible bullish stock. It can be compared to PCU 4 years ago. Both return 2000% (20 folds) in just 4 years. I have made a very strong case for SWC super bull. Do your own DD on palladium.

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OONR7 said...

jason... it was definitely on my IB top gainers list that I pulled at around 9:50 or so.