Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Gapper Dummy Trade - The Kroger Co. (Public, NYSE:KR)

KR gapped up and carved out a mini base on the 1 minute time frame. I micro managed this trade because gapper longs often don't have much muscle in this bearish market. Basically, I'm allowing for a retest, but once price moves in earnest, I'm looking to exit on the first sign of weakness. After the retest, KR broke out of the second base and had a nice run. As it formed the third base, it printed a higher high and immediately retraced. That third base is a three point base and if it fails price can reverse sharply so I tightened the stop and was stopped out.

The top is just pennies shy of the 38% Fibonacci extension of the previous day low to the ORH - Trader-X knowledge.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jamie,

Funny that you traded KR. I threw your pre-market list into a quote window and did a quick filtering pass at the open. When I got to KR, I thought "... Kroger, a $26 grocery store stock, DELETE...". I totally missed the trap action on the daily. Personal biases are no good in trading.

TJ said...

Jim,

LOL, Dummy trading 101 - I wasn't sure what KR was other than retail.

AAPL looks good for tomorrow - IB inverted hammer. 72 76 S/R. I suspect it will try to rally back up to 50 DMA.

bl said...

Been looking at $2 premkt(13): apa scor leap. Nice trades Jamie and thanks for premkt list.

TJ said...

BL,

ROYL was good too. Once it took out the pre-market high, it rallied 2 pts. Not bad for a $12.00 stock.