What to look for in good breakout anticipation candidate
As a breakout trader I look for area of consolidation or weakness from which stock is likely to breakout.
Not all breakouts can be anticipated, but some can be .
- series of narrow range days in pullback/consolidation
- orderly pullback with no 4% b/d during the pullback or consolidation
- low volume pullback
- low volatility during pullback
- linear first leg if looking as continuation setup
- Stock should go up smoothly and not in volatile manner
- 3 to 10 days consolidation/pullback
- not up 3 days in a row
Some good anticipation candidates
EPAM
INCY
MNKD
NBIX
OEH
RCPT
RDNT
SGMO
ULTI
WAGE
XOOM
4 comments:
Hi Pradeep, thanks for all your hard work on the blog, I have learned a lot from you. When you look for breakouts, what is your methodology for entering? Do you monitor the stocks in the morning and enter after a certain price point? For example today OEH appears to have broken out, did you enter? When? and what were the signals that alerted you to enter a trade? Thank you again.
I did not enter OEH today as I was away part of the day but yes I would have entered it. i enter it as soon as it shows a little move above recent high. i like entering in the morning. That way you can benefit from rest of the day move.
What do you mean by the following: "orderly pullback with no 4% b/d during the pullback or consolidation." What is b/d? Don't quite follow your grammar. Could you restate?
Thanks for the daily newsletters. Very helpful. Most interested in those addressing trading principles and strategies, rather than specific stocks. I Day Trade the Russell 2000 and breakouts and reversals are crucial points of entry. Thanks again.
Stock should not have 4% plus down day during its consolidation phase
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