Thursday, July 14, 2011

PCLN Follow Up

Here's yesterday's update on the PCLN short trade

And here we are today, having made a substantial step in the right direction.

 Yesterday I defined this red trendline as the next step in PCLN's journey, the break on the trendline represents a new low and a downtrend is lower highs, lower lows as you can see by my annotations above.

 This daily chart was part of the catalyst for the trade idea, 3C showed a false breakout.

 As you can see, yesterday we had a negative divergence suggesting PCLN would make that lower low today as it has, but we also have a positive divergence and the trendline is likely to be gamed a bit over the next few days.

 Here's the 1 min positive divergence today, so I expect price to move toward the trendline.

The next significant move for PCLN will be to break the 50-day moving average. There' nothing special about the average except that trader's and thus Wall Street pay attention to it. At this point you should have about a 5% gain on the trade since it was mentioned. You may want to lock that in and re-establish the position or just ride it out.

You can also use the Swing trend identification.
The red candles are the trend, lower highs/lows, the yellow candle is noise in the trend. The swing downtrend would be broken with a losing candle that has a low higher then today's high as today is the new signal candle, being the last in the series to make a lower low/high.

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