You must practice practice on many charts to get acclimated to the rules.
You need nerves of steel to get hit with minor losses.
We all know everyone needs a few dollars for lunch money and or paying the car payment. Simon can do this for us.
Per Simon Sez III rules
Buy one bar after the Price Label as DAY ONE that has been posted and let it ride for 6 days and ca$h it in.
2a. Sell if within the 6-day period when the price label appears at the top to prevent any further losses.
Beginners, buy in multiples of 10 shares. eg. 10 20 30 40 50 100 . . . . .shares.
3a. Advanced swing traders buy in multiples of 100 shares. eg. 100 200 300 400 500 1000 ā¦ shares.
Pick a chart from your own pool of candidates or from a scanning tool showing prices right out of the gate.
4a. Price being the āGateā. We use the expression āOut Of The Gateā to talk about doing something right away. If you do things out of the gate, you do them without any delay.
Thanks Quillnpenn! I assume your scanning tool mentioned is the Out of the Gate signal Xover, which you posted to Andy. I opened an account with stockcharts so Iāll start studying chartsā¦
Buy one bar after the Price Label as DAY ONE that has been posted and let it ride for 6 days and ca$h it in."
Quill,
Hereās a variant for your āSmiley Faceā system that might explain why it works. You mentioned ACCO, which --actually-- would be a company worth owning a piece of. (Founded in 1893. Based domestically in Illinois. Designs, manufactures, and markets consumer, school, technology, and office products. Whatās not to like about that?)
Anyhow, hereās ACCOās chart at Fridayās close, with a Smiley Face appearing at the āhard, right-hand edgeā.
Per my rules, I couldnāt buy ACCO the next market day. But letās work some magic and scroll the chart back a bit to see where the previous low was, which was Dec 19. Ignore the lower wick --which is what BarChart cues of off to mark lookback low and high, and, instead, focus on the close for the day. Next place a horizontal line on that price, which establishes and projects a Support Line.
Yeah, prices closed a bit below that Support Line, but well above the low for the day which is what BarChart focuses on (and mistakenly so, I think.) So hereās the trading problem. There is only scant evidence that prices wonāt go down some more and the same scant evidence that they might go up. So, what to do? A ātraderlyā tactic would be to write a ābuy-stopā order (or Market If Touched, aka, MIT) with the stop set just above Fridayās open. The thinking would be this. If prices continue to drop, the order would expire unfilled. But if prices reversed and moved up on Monday --but didnāt gap-- then the order might get a fill and put the trader in the catbirdās seat.