Quote from joepepper2001:
heres what would have happened
http://i12.tinypic.com/455u6xc.gif
the 50ma from the first chart is down in the part where the question is and a rally took price right thru
Quote from Don Bright:
If I'm reading this correctly, you would have made money twice by fading, and then gotten obliterated on the 3rd time hitting (and going through) the 50MA, which is pretty typical of the "power of threes".
Don
Quote from Don Bright:
A simple exercise for traders to see the power of threes, is to watch the S&P 500 pivot points during the day. You can go to www.stocktrading.com/Tradinginfo.htm each day to see what they are. Then watch how often the trading troughs (between the pivot points), hold the tick by tick action....then you break a resisistance pivot, and it becomes the temporary support pivot, etc. This is one of the primary decision makers for intraday entry/ exit of stocks.
Don
Quote from joepepper2001:
example
http://i16.tinypic.com/2usu1e9.gif
if you had shorted this touch of the 50ma and didn't look at other things would it have ben good?
Quote from mschey:
So here is my question, if price is trading below the 50 day moving average, and rises and hits it, what is the correct action to take?
Thanks!