4/1 Bear Worksheet

Issues in bear phase that presently are not top prospects for new positions in my accounts.
(See the Top Prospects posting for issues that I’m considering for new positions.)

Changes:
• Recent breakouts: FNFG.
• Promoted to Top Prospects: AIG, BBY, BRCM, DAL, RIMM.
• Failed the two-day rule (Exit 1): CCL, CPLA.
• Hit stop/loss (Exit 2): BAC, BK.
• Parabolic Sar divergence, taken out of play (Exit 5): URA, UUP.
• Parabolic sar convergence, put back in play (Exit 5 reversal): BRCM.

Not Top
Issues that are not Out of Play but fall short of being Top Prospects.

sym	adx	traj	psar	bday	blevel	bstop	2-day?
ATVI				feb10	$11.08	$11.33
C				mar4	$4.54	$4.64
CCJ				mar13	$36.95	$38.21
CENT				mar15	$8.95	$9.19
CMA				mar23	$36.80	$37.78
CREE				mar4	$50.05	$51.69
FNFG				mar31	$13.62	$13.85	✔
LCC				feb22	$9.21	$9.58
VNM				feb22	$25.35	$26.13
WMT				feb22	$53.14	$53.98

Out of Play
Issues whose parabolic sar is in bear phase. If held, under my rules they are sold. If not held, they are not candidates for a new position.

sym	adx	traj	psar	bday	blevel	bstop	2-day?
AFL				mar11	$54.80	$56.07
GGB				mar21	$12.65	$13.51
GOOG				mar9	$587.00	$598.22
INTC				mar15	$20.27	$20.74
MSFT				mar1	$26.43	$26.90
NKE				mar18	$81.01	$80.91
NOK				feb14	$9.08	$9.51
NTAP				mar10	$49.82	$50.67
PG				mar3	$62.30	$63.04
URA				mar10	$18.94	$19.49
UUP				feb24	$22.13	$22.26

Issues that I hold positions in are marked with an asterisk (*).


Evaluations
See the Top Prospects posting for issues evaluated as top prospects, and the Bull Worksheet and Bear Worksheet postings for other evaluations.

• Top Prospects are issues upon which I would consider opening a new position.
• Not Top plays are issues that are tradeable under my rules but fail to meet the criteria for Top Picks. It's not against my rules to trade these stocks, but their condition on the chart leaves me unenthusiastic about opening a new position.
• Out of Play issues aren’t prospects for new positions under my rules because the parabolic sar phase doesn’t match the price-channel phase.

Key

• adx: Average direction index location, indicating the strength, or the temperature, of the trend. Orange for 40 or greater, aqua (light blue) for 30 and up but below 40, magenta (light purple) for 20 and up but below 30, and brown for anything below 20. (Mnemonic: Orange for the overhead sun, blue for the surrounding sky, purple for sunset on the horizon and brown for the earth.)
• traj: Trajectory of the ADX, green for strengthening, red for weakening or yellow for unchanging. Note that if the adx column is orange and the trajectory column is red, then the position must be closed.
• psar: The parabolic sar, either green for bullish or red for bearish.
• bday: Breakout day, the day the price broke through the upper or lower 55-day price line.
• blevel: Breakout level, the price level of the line that was broken through.
• bstop: The stop/loss price calculated on breakout days as the 14-day average true range below the breakout-day low for a bull phase and above thre breakout-day high for a bear phase.
• 2-day?: Marked with an "✔" if the two-day rule is in effect. Under the rule, if the price closes below the breakout level on each of the two days following breakout day, then the position must be exited.

About channel analysis

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Disclaimer

Tim Bovee, Private Trader tracks the analysis and trades of a private trader for his own accounts. Nothing in this blog constitutes a recommendation to buy or sell stocks, options or any other financial instrument. The only purpose of this blog is to provide education and entertainment.


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