 | |  | | SCREEN III: READING THE RIPPLE
THE third screen uses intraday trends to help you enter positions. When the weekly trend is up, you want to buy each time the daily countertrend pushes prices down. But you also want to protect yourself from the danger that the countertrends may continue even lower.
The third screen helps you benefit from the buying opportnities while protecting you from the risk that the brief downtrend may turn into a major one. In major doen trends, it helps you benefit from shorting into countertrend rallies while protecting you from the risk that those rallies will become bullish reversals.
This screen consists of using trailing stop techniques (not to be confused with stop-loss orders). A trailing buy-stop order trails above the
prrevious day's range on the way down, angling for the upside reversal. A trailing sell-stop order trails below the previous day's range on the way up to catch a renewed downturn.
If the daily oscillotor goes negative on Tuesday while the weekly trend is up, then place a buy order, good for Wednesday only, above Tuesday's high. If the weekly trend pushes back up, as you expect, you will be "stopped in ," automatically buying a short-term breakout from the intermediate downtrend.
If prices continue lower on Wednesday, you remain out of the market. You lose nothing, but the buy signal remains in effect as long as the oscillator remains in negative territory. Then, on Thursday you place a buy order, good for one day only, above the Wednesday high. You continue this procedure until you are either "stopped in" on an upside reversal or a bearish trend is signaled by the weekly MACD, canceling the buy signal.
This buy-stop technique is reversed to a sell-stop technique for shorting when the weekly trend is down but the daily oscillators rally into positive territory.
To be continued with "Three Screen Summary; and Maintaining A Stop" |  |  |  |  |
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