Monday, May 12, 2008

Gapper Dummy Trade - AnnTaylor Stores Corp. (Public, NYSE:ANN)

From the Briefing.com gapper list, ANN had good pre-market volume and price held in the upper range of the PM spike. Entered long as soon a price closed near the ORH after establishing support from the rising 5 period EMA. I think this is another good example of a Trader-X style trade.

The preliminary target was the 38% Fib. extension of the previous day low to the ORH. I was stopped out shortly after when I saw a gravestone doji stick.

Several nice trades from the HCPG trading list which I'll post later tonight.

2 comments:

Robert Zotter said...

Did you just enter at market when 9/15 bar completed? Why not wait till that upper tail was taken out, or just the ORH?

Thanks.

TJ said...

RZ,

No, I was watching on the lower timeframe. 9/15 broke out on higher volume and price came back to retest the base. That is usually a good time to get in if the base holds as support.