Do you trade pullbacks? Try this strategy

One of the great things about



P
owerRatings
is that they can be used in so many different ways. Once you
understand the basics, you can combine them with a myriad of trading styles.
Each day I’m going to highlight some of the different ways you can incorporate

PowerRatings
into your existing trading strategies and hopefully teach you a few new ones
along the way. I’ll also show you some of the ways our members are using

PowerRatings
to improve their trading.

In today’s example, lets take a look at LightPath
Technologies
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had been building a base, trading
between $1.50 and $3.25 for the past 8-months. Usually, the longer the base, the
more powerful the breakouts. The range contracted in December, very often a
precursor to a breakout, and sure enough in early January,
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exploded
higher — moving from $2.00 to nearly $8.00 in just 5-days.

A stock will normally pullback after such a large
breakout. One very popular trading technique is to look for a Fibonacci
retracement as a potential area to initiate a long position.
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declined for the next 3-weeks before reaching its’ 61.8% retracement level.

On 1/31
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had a

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of 7, setting up a potential buy. The stock
continued to decline for the next 3-days, but while doing so its’

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went to an 8 and then 9.

At this point the 14-day Stochastic was oversold
and showing a bullish divergence — also indicating a possible rally. With all
these indicators lining up,
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setup as a high probability trade.

Yesterday
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moved sharply higher to
record a 41% 5-day return since the initial

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of 7.


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Ashton Dorkins

Editor-in-Chief

ashtond@tradingmarkets.com