gapper

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - Nortel Networks Corporation (USA) (Public, NYSE:NT)

NT was an earnings gap that took out the ORH on the next bar. Eventually it carved out a base & break setup at the early swing high (almost a C&H) and rallied into the close along with the...

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - athenahealth, Inc (Public, NASDAQ:ATHN)

ATHN gapped up on earnings and carved out an inverted hammer. The next two bars were inside on declining volume. The second inside bar was a bullish green hammer so I took a dummy long above the...

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - Atheros Communications, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:ATHR)

ATHR was an earnings gap from the Briefing.com list. It set up a low risk B&B after consolidating sideways. I took a partial as price retested the ORH. I was hoping for a C&H to develop,...

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - Amazon.com, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:AMZN)

AMZN gapped up on the open and carved out a flat base following the 15 minute OR. These flat base breakouts can be very powerful even though they are extremely boring to watch, stick after stick. I...

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation (Public, NYSE:ANH)

ANH was from my Esignal leaders list. I applied some Trader-X and OONR7 trading strategies on the entry. Trader-X always waited for price and the 5 ema to come together and he liked to buy following...

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - Autodesk, Inc. (Public, NASDAQ:ADSK)

This ADSK gapper short trade is fairly straight forward. In fact, I wish I could fine one like this every day. ADSK was on the Briefing.com gapper list. The ORH lines up nicely with yesterday's...

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - Origin Agritech Ltd. (Public, NASDAQ:SEED) Cup & Handle

From the Briefing.com gapper list, SEED formed a Cup & Handle pattern in early afternoon. It was breaking out just as I got back to the chart. Since the BO bar was WR, I decided to wait for a...

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - BHP Billiton Limited (ADR) (Public, NYSE:BHP)

BHP was a gapper that I found through my simple scan - stocks priced between $10-200, gaps open above previous day high with at least 300,000 shares traded by the time I run the scan -usually 10:00....

Dummy Gapper Trade of the Day - Research In Motion Limited (USA) (Public, NASDAQ:RIMM)

RIMM was the big gapper trade on Friday. Unfortunately for me, it was also my birthday and that means a lot of phone calls from family and friends. The distractions caused me to miss the early...

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A reader asks the best way to trade SSTR.SSTR was a flat base breakout gapper on the daily chart. The first bar is bullish on very high volume. Price then consolidates the wide gap open. An early...