{"id":36881,"date":"2014-03-23T21:37:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=36881"},"modified":"2014-03-25T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T17:10:10","slug":"smb-trade-of-the-week-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-trade-of-the-week-plug","title":{"rendered":"SMB Trade of the Week: PLUG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bellafiore, author of the \u201ctrading classic\u201d\u00a0<em>One Good Trade<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The PlayBook<\/em>, talks about his SMB Trade of the Week in $PLUG. This stock was highly in-play this past week, presenting some great trading action which the desk was able to take advantage of.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights from this trade:<\/p>\n<p>1) There were many variables involved in this trade &#8211; the big picture, technicals, reading the tape, intraday fundamentals and intuition.<\/p>\n<p>2) A tweet from Citron was the news catalysts that triggered a significant move down in the stock.<\/p>\n<p>3) Topping action was seen in PLUG which turned into the real short setup, below the 10.80 level.<\/p>\n<p>4) Bella gives some great tips for capturing the real move in an overextended stock.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" name=\"wistia_embed\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/0d8hsa28dc\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLo5LM9g7UwiY9yotqbt2ssKQOANbdILmn\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"smb-youtube-daytrading-trading-prop-trading-education-videos-markets\" src=\"http:\/\/i.smbtraining.com\/banners\/smb-youtube.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tf130.infusionsoft.com\/app\/form\/d6f9f32d6aa45c95630d299d1002064e\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36336\" alt=\"smb-newsletter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smb-newsletter.png\" width=\"605\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smb-newsletter.png 605w, \/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/smb-newsletter-300x29.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can be better tomorrow than you are today!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Good-Trade-Competitive-Proprietary\/dp\/0470529407\">One Good Trade<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-PlayBook-Inside-Professional-Trader\/dp\/0132937646\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y\">The PlayBook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikebellafiore\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/follow_me-c.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNo Relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bellafiore, author of the \u201ctrading classic\u201d\u00a0One Good Trade\u00a0and\u00a0The PlayBook, talks about his SMB Trade of the Week in $PLUG. This stock was highly in-play this past week, presenting some great trading action which the desk was able to take advantage of. Highlights from this trade: 1) There were many variables involved in this trade &#8211; the big picture, technicals, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-trade-of-the-week-plug\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,449,863],"tags":[3666,56,55,405],"class_list":["post-36881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-bellafiore-bellas-blogs","category-reading_the_tape","category-smb_on_tv","category-trade-of-the-week","tag-plug","tag-smb","tag-trade","tag-week","no-post-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SMB Trade of the Week: PLUG | SMB Training<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/smb-trade-of-the-week-plug\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SMB Trade of the Week: PLUG | SMB Training\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike Bellafiore, author of the \u201ctrading classic\u201d\u00a0One Good Trade\u00a0and\u00a0The PlayBook, talks about his SMB Trade of the Week in $PLUG. 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