Monday, March 2, 2009

March 2 - CAL AMB POT

I am a bit frustrated today. The market gave so many opportunities, and I just feel that I was focussed on the wrong stocks. I made money today, but I should do better.

POT had a steady move down until around 1pm and then it printed a higher low and a small base. I entered on the break of the base, took a partial at the previous swing high, and exited when buyers could keep price above $76.


This is a "top out" setup developed by Trader X. I entered on the break of the 4th bar low, and exited at the close of the 5th bar. I did not really like the long lower tail at RZ and that proved to be the right call.


AMB was a nice setup but I ended up taking a small loss. AMB gapped down below PDL and S1 and it printed 2 NRIBs. The volume pattern was not great, but I thought price would collapse. Well, it hang around that area for a long time (while the rest of the market was tanking) so I finally decided to exit (four bars after my entry).

5 comments:

bl said...

Curious why not short POT -2/15, then go long if sets up? 9/16 commodities WL had -2,/15 IB's(56%):anr agu adm.... POT hit the 10ema 6x before reversing with 1x evolving into "h" pattern. Interesting. Dang I missed it. I was setting up 15 and 30min open WL charts to observe 2nd IB b/d if happened, and it did. I was also looking for a reversal in the fertilizers but what the heck.

bl said...

Correction: "hit the 10 ema on 1min chart"

anarco said...

POT 2/15 or 3/10 would have been great!

JF David said...

I was decided just to watch the show today, having some possible obligations today.

I was able to trade the h pattern on POT early in the morning, but got out way to early.

After the POT downward move was over I was convinced of just one thing: that Jamie got the entire move on POT.... and I was right on that!!

Nice trade ANARCO on POT, nice patience for the balance of the position.

anarco said...

Hey JF~
Congrats on getting in with POT. The h pattern rocks (although I have not traded it much lately).
Good trading tomorrow!