As of 12/20/2024
Indus: 42,840 +498.02 +1.2%
Trans: 15,892 +32.54 +0.2%
Utils: 986 +14.76 +1.5%
Nasdaq: 19,573 +199.83 +1.0%
S&P 500: 5,931 +63.77 +1.1%
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YTD
+13.7%
0.0%
+11.9%
+30.4%
+24.3%
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 44,200 or 41,750 by 01/01/2025 16,100 or 17,700 by 01/01/20251,050 or 975 by 01/01/202520,500 or 19,300 by 01/01/20256,100 or 5,775 by 01/01/2025 |
As of 12/20/2024
Indus: 42,840 +498.02 +1.2%
Trans: 15,892 +32.54 +0.2%
Utils: 986 +14.76 +1.5%
Nasdaq: 19,573 +199.83 +1.0%
S&P 500: 5,931 +63.77 +1.1%
|
YTD
+13.7%
0.0%
+11.9%
+30.4%
+24.3%
| |
|
44,200 or 41,750 by 01/01/202516,100 or 17,700 by 01/01/20251,050 or 975 by 01/01/202520,500 or 19,300 by 01/01/20256,100 or 5,775 by 01/01/2025 | ||
Let me tell you about a trade I made in Coldwater Creek (CWTR, daily chart).
By late April 2009, many stocks had doubled in price and were bumping up against overhead resistance. I show the stock hitting such resistance by the green line at point A.
When price closed above this region, I pounced and bought the stock. Since I was and still am concerned about the market, my position was just 1/4 of what it used to be a year ago.
The stock moved sideways for several days as if trying to decide a direction, but then it found its legs and shot up. Midway though the rise, I doubled my position.
Since I was buying stocks often during that time, I did not fill in some of my notebook for the trade, so I do not know what my target price was.
If you look at the longer-term chart (weekly, for example, going back a few years) you will see a loose congestion area from 3.40 in January 2008 to a high of 8.31 on September 2008. My guess would be a climb to 8, which is also the site of a small knot of congestion in October to December 2007. That tight area would concern me.
If I wanted to hold the stock for several years, then I would expect it to push through and top out at 19. That is where numerous valleys bottom starting in late 2005. Buying at 3.50 and holding to 19 sounds like a worthwhile endeavor to me. Of course, the stock, the company, the market, and the economy would all have to cooperate. That is a tall order but in three years, who knows?
Anyway, I let the stock flop around and then it started the second leg of what looked like a measured move up chart pattern. Notice that leg B nearly matches the slope and extent of leg C. If the measured move up plays out as expected, price will retrace back to the corrective phase -- which is the horizontal movement between B and C.
I looked at the chart and took a tip from my day trading experience. I saw three candles with little overlap (the three days before the black candle when I sold). That means a strong price run has begun. I placed a stop loss order a penny or two below the low of the white candle (the highest one on the chart), expecting to trail the stop upward as price climbed.
The next day, I was stopped out when the f%^*ing thing hit my stop. I felt as if I was cheated out of a profit. Today (Monday night as I write this), the stock has rubbed salt into my wounds by closing up 2.4% even as the Dow has tumbled 187 points.
On the first trade, I made 83% and the second one I made 61%, but I still feel as if I lost big.
Shown is a more recent chart of Coldwater Creek on the daily scale. I marked the two buy locations as well as when I sold.
Price cooperated and dropped to A after I sold which always brings warmth to my heart. But then it had the audacity to recover and post a new high as the general market climbed.
According to S & P, they rate the stock a hold while Ford has a sell on it. S & P says that the company faces increasing competition and slower store growth in 2010, so I threw it back on the discard pile instead of placing it on my shopping list.
Based on what I see, this stock could defy the rating agencies and continue moving up.
-- Thomas Bulkowski
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