{"id":23000,"date":"2013-01-10T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=23000"},"modified":"2023-08-01T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T23:37:31","slug":"would-you-make-this-fade-trade-apol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/would-you-make-this-fade-trade-apol","title":{"rendered":"Would You Make This Fade Trade? $APOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this trader question via email on fade trading.\u00a0 Here goes:<\/p>\n

After the (well-known trader coach visit) meeting, I’ve come to realize I don’t ask enough questions from the people who are more experienced than I am. Today was a dull day, lost about $150, I don’t have a lot of talk about except this APOL trade.<\/p>\n

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I’d like to know what \u00a0you think about how I traded this APOL trade:<\/p>\n

my idea was to get long on any kind of failure test of the 52 week lows and position myself for a short-covering bounce. the 52 week low was 18.36. the pre-market low was 18.62. the stock made an opening low of 18.52, which i thought was pretty marginal. it didn’t really stick and hold lower.<\/p>\n

what do you think is the better approach, getting a price close to 18.50 (fading the downmove, since the tape is telling me they can’t really stick) and trying to stay in the trade all day against that inflection, since that’s the real big picture level where I’m wrong, or being “safe”, waiting for more confirmation, trying to trade with the momentum on my side? I kind of did the latter, I got into the trade at 18.85, 19, and some lots above 19, and little did I know, I walked into a battleground that touched a lot of prices. above-below, lots of quick short-covering bursts that failed to hold, overly-aggressive low-offers… but generally ticking my favor. I don’t like establishing my position in spots where my intuition tells me it’s 50-50 but i didn’t want to miss a trade i prepared for either. at some point, i just felt like my price average (19.03) was too high for me to give it to 18.50, it became a\u00a0pseudo-“hold higher” trade rather than a support trade, and after 2 failures to hold above 19.25, i just hit it below 18.90. my active trading (getting bigger\/getting lighter) was awful on the stock to boot, i kept killing my core average.<\/p>\n

i also think this trade would’ve been a lot better if the stock didn’t put in an opening high at 19.48 in the first 10 minutes… that just makes the psychology of the play much different than say, if there was only one move on the open — down — and the offers just tried to mow it down, but it couldn’t get below 18.50. you could argue this is too crowded\/hard a stock and i shouldn’t focus my time on it.<\/p>\n

I don’t think there’s a right\/wrong answer (I’m positive that this will be your response, in that there’s only the right way for ME to trade it), but I’d like a compass so I have more direction in evaluating my execution. any thoughts?<\/p>\n

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@mikebellafiore<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have been a fade trader and a trend trader during my trading career.\u00a0 It is too stressful for me to fade trade now.\u00a0 This doesn’t fit with my present lifestyle.\u00a0 And we do teach many new traders globally for whom it is much easier to start as a trend trader.\u00a0 But you at this point you have more experience and fade trading is appropriate.<\/p>\n

There is no best way to trade this set up.\u00a0 There is the best way FOR YOU.\u00a0 You were correct \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Having said that there are three intraday patterns that I see for a fade trade:<\/p>\n

1) the Puke<\/strong><\/p>\n

You see a steep downmove on heavy volume which looks to you like the end of the move.\u00a0 Some call this capitulation.\u00a0 The play here is to get long with a stop below the low and hold for a Real Upmove.\u00a0 This is only for advanced traders.<\/p>\n

2) The CLEAR bottom from the Tape<\/strong><\/p>\n

I like this trade for an intraday, active, superior tape reading Fade trader.\u00a0 I would caution that you wait for the tape to CLEARLY show you something different.\u00a0 Wait to see CLEARLY that the tape is different and that the stock CLEARLY is not going down.\u00a0 This will be the key for this trade.\u00a0 Having the tape reading skills and discipline to see that the tape is CLEARLY different and CLEARLY not going down anymore.\u00a0 And passing on this set up when the tape is kinda indicating the stock may be done going down.\u00a0 This is a very important distinction, one that you must make to trade this pattern successfully.<\/p>\n

3) The reversal trade after confirmation<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love this trade.\u00a0 This to me is where the most money is for most traders.\u00a0 Now the downtrend is broken.\u00a0 Now the stock is holding above the intraday downtrend.\u00a0 We have confirmation of a potential reversal.\u00a0 What is most important here is a higher confidence level in our trade.\u00a0 Thus, you can get bigger.\u00a0 In fact to play this trade properly you have to get bigger when the trade starts to work.\u00a0 What is terrific about your trade here is you add through 19.\u00a0 This is spot on.\u00a0 What is awesome about your trading here is your hold for the Real Move.\u00a0 You cannot be a successful fade trader without capturing big chunks of moves when you are correct.<\/p>\n

I hope that helps.<\/p>\n

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Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n

One Good Trade<\/a><\/p>\n

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no relevant positions<\/p>\n

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