{"id":24271,"date":"2013-02-19T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=24271"},"modified":"2013-02-24T01:33:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-24T06:33:37","slug":"smb-trade-of-the-week-failed-breakout-cmcsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-trade-of-the-week-failed-breakout-cmcsa","title":{"rendered":"SMB Trade of the Week: Failed Breakout (CMCSA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/16623897?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the intraday trader we look for\u00a0opportunities where stocks are:<br \/>\n1) Clean<br \/>\n2) Trend<br \/>\n3) Wound up to move<br \/>\n4) Controllable, meaning you can control your risk<br \/>\n5) Scaleable, meaning you can add significant size<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In our SMB Trade of the Week we had all of these. See the power point slides above. Would you have made this trade? \u00a0How would you have traded it differently?<\/p>\n<p>For more trades like this preorder my next book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Playbook-Inside-Professional-Trader\/dp\/0132937646\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1361199735&amp;sr=8-5&amp;keywords=the+playbook\">The PlayBook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1357332711&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=one+good+trade+mike+bellafiore\">One Good Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebellafiore\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>no relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For the intraday trader we look for\u00a0opportunities where stocks are: 1) Clean 2) Trend 3) Wound up to move 4) Controllable, meaning you can control your risk 5) Scaleable, meaning you can add significant size &nbsp; In our SMB Trade of the Week we had all of these. See the power point slides above. 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