Hello Saint and others,
Long time since I've read posts in this thread. This thread had been my first source for basics of TA. I will keep track of this thread now-on-wards.
I've got some questions. Please try to answer them when you find time.
1.How to deal with a sudden long bar with huge volume? This becomes important when the stock is not "popular", etc. For eg. please look at the attached charts.
2. What I'm thinking is we can exit when it reaches one pre-determined target, say 5%. This 5% I think is getting achieved very easily in such kind of charts. For eg. the scripts in the charts achieved 5% the next day. I've noticed some stocks which behaves as explained above.
3. Does that 5% look like gambling? After all money making is the motto of a trader, right? I agree that this is possible only if we trade in low volumes.
This can be helpful for small traders, say who trades with Rs.1 lakh., etc
I'm posting these questions and charts only for learning purpose. Any views are welcome.
Thanks,
Praveen.
Hi Praveen,
Trading the trend is a different kettle of fish.........one tries to get in on trend reversal,and if not at least on some sort of a pullback,and then hopes to ride the trend as long as possible till the trend in that time frame reverses.Easier said than done,but it can be done,and to great profits.
In the case of BLUE BIRD,we have a downtrend followed by a high volume Wide range bar that looks like the start of a new uptrend.What we now look for is a pullback to form higher pivot lows,and then to new highs.Your entry point would be half or a third,in the pullback,and the rest once it makes new highs with a stop at this pivot low.
Playing 5% and 10% can sometimes get tricky......one then tends to limit one's profits and when the fall comes,one ends up holding on to the losses.So careful on that one,my friend.
Best to let the profits run,and trail stop it.....for example,Praj Inds,in its breakout from the sideways consolidation is now a 100% up.Let it run ,go with the trend till the trend takes you out.Have some trail stop in place,that's it.
And,no,making profits having a definite entry,exit,money management systems in place is never gambling........Gambling is anticipating a dntrend and going short in a strong uptrend.Gambling is going long a Sugar Stock that is in a clear cut dntrend quite sure that the price that one gets in is the absolute bottom of that stock.Gambling is not knowing whether to buy 1000 shares or 500 shares,and buying a 1000 shares without knowing why..........gambling is basically doing anything without a set method to the madness.The repeated,methodical and systematic onslaught of the markets .....nah,that's never gambling.Pure Trading.
Do revert if there are any doubts.
All the best!
Happy Trading!
Saint
ps:shall write up on WRB's, a few things, over the next few days.