| sym | phase | adx | bday | blevel | stop | atr | atr% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AXP | may16 | $50.47 | $49.71 | 0.76 | 1.5% | ||
| CENX | may16 | $15.63 | $16.58 | 0.95 | 6.1% | ||
| DRYS | may13 | $4.48 | $4.63 | 0.15 | 3.4% | ||
| MSFT* | may16 | $24.68 | $25.17 | 0.49 | 2.0% |
AXP is a strange beast: Today’s breakout above the price channel is on a strong rise intraday, and yet the parabolic sar has switched to bear phase. I’ve listed it as a breakout, but for my own accounts I won’t touch it until the psar divergence disappears.
CENX broke below the channel on a divering uptrend intraday.
DRYS broke below the channel on Friday, before an after-hours earnings announcement. It has dropped significantly further today.
Key
- phase: Green for a bull-phase breakout, red for a bear phase.
- 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.)
- 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.
- atr: The 14-day average true range, in the same currency as the price.
- atr%: The average true range as a percentage of the breakout level, an indicator of volatility that is comparable for all potential trades.
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