Last May 29, STR broke out of a long consolidation and gained 50% in a single day. Here's how I traded it:
The Setup
Knowing that the company has been seeing good earnings, and with its recent price run up, I thought there might still be some strength to it. After it bounced twice near the support at 9 pesos per share, I put it in my watchlist.
Once a stock is on my watchlist, I already have a trading plan for it. The nearest support was at 9 pesos per share, while the next significant resistance was at 13 pesos per share. I calculated the risk to reward and found a good range of entry.
The Buying
Analyzing the stock in the 4H chart, I notice that it has not broken the MA9 (9 period moving average) since May 16. I had a hunch that the bounce was imminent, so I set a buy alert once the stock passed this price resistance.
The Selling
The price shot up like crazy and I had to set trailing stops to protect my profits. I sold on the first whipsaw after it went ceiling, and bought back after it bounced from support. At this point I was at the 1-minute chart- this was how fast it was moving!
The rest, I sold the next day after the violent sell off at the morning. What a quick trade! Sadly, it was too fast that I failed to take a picture of my portfolio to show for it. All in all, I gained a total of around 60% for all the trades I made with this stock, but it was a just regular trade allocations, so the profits were humble but nothing to brag about.
Well, that's my trade! Did you get to trade STR when it went up? How did you do?
Let me know in the comments below!