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Subject: Re: Trading Strategies: CPQ
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Thanks to each of you for your knowledgeable input.
Because Compaq "sandbagged"
(http://www.thestreet.com/comment/wrongrear/734887.html) analysts, it is
going to be tough to go long if a buy signal is triggered next week. But as
the mantra goes, execute your technical system no matter what.......
Regards
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Robb <mrobb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 1999 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: Trading Strategies: CPQ
> Very interesting comments. Sounds like good advice. Apparently the voice
of
> experience.
>
> One possible addition might be the Gann type of claim that there exists
> "natural" support/resistance at 25 and to a lesser extent, 23 1/2 - 7/16
> etc. as minor 1/8 points.
>
> M. R.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gitanshu Buch <OnWingsofEagles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 7:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Trading Strategies: CPQ
>
>
> >>Does anyone have experience/advice in trading large gapping stocks (as
> >>expected from Compaq on Monday)? I am currently short the stock but not
> >>sure if I should cover at the open or wait until the end of the day. I
> >>would appreciate any suggested technical indicators for these type of
> >>'gapping' stocks.
> >
> >
> >
> >Here is how I trade 'em:
> >
> >a/ The open is the best time to cover a short like you have. It
represents
> >the peak of fear and the maximum imbalance between buyers and sellers, so
> >the specialists take them down as much as it takes to find other buyers
at
> >some price level to help them share their burden of making the market in
> the
> >stock.
> >
> >b/ By "the open" I mean the first 10 minutes of trading. The stock will
> >open - say at 26 and trade down to 24 in 3 minutes. All these orders
> getting
> >filled will be pre-existing orders on the specialists' system and it will
> be
> >virtually impossible to trade off the screen since the fills get reported
> >late on days like this. You are therefore better off having a GTC limit
> >order to buy at 1 buck above whatever the opening indication looks like,
> and
> >be sure to have your order logged before 9:30 regardless of opening delay
> on
> >the stock. Once the limit is hit it turns into a market order, and you
will
> >be given a lower fill if price gaps through your target. Thus it is
almost
> >immaterial where your limit price to buy is on CPQ, a 30 or a 28 or a 25
or
> >a Market order will get you the same fill if it gaps open to 22.
> >
> >I would do the above on at least 50% of the position.
> >
> >For the balance, here is what I do since I am never really sure if the
> >opening gap is filled by a retracement on the same day:
> >
> >There normally is buying pressure immediately after the open. This lifts
> the
> >stock up a couple of bucks, and this gap also lets the bottom fishers
come
> >in and buy - who think they are getting what was once a $50 stock for
half
> >that value due to a temporary "Wall St Knee-jerk". All this combines to
> >bring the stock back up for 2 or 3 days - maybe for CPQ may also be a
week
> >since it is already so low.
> >
> >My trailing stop on the remaining position is therefore 1 buck above
Friday
> >close - if you still want to be strategically bearish and ride the
> downtrend
> >and have half a position.
> >
> >Equities like CPQ almost never make a V bottom. There usually a retest of
> >the new lows (within about 1 dollar) a few days or a couple of weeks
later,
> >at which point I re-evaluate whether a double bottom is being formed or
> >should I ride the trend.
> >
> >Here are a few examples whose daily charts you could pull up to see what
> >happened. The only difference between these and CPQ is that they were
> riding
> >bull trends when they gapped down open, and CPQ has already been in an
> >established downtrend. Given that, one HAS to respect the fact that this
> may
> >be an exhaustion gap happening on Monday.
> >
> >PMTC - Parametric Technology
> >CA - Computer Associates.
> >
> >I no longer have intraday charts on these but the dailies convey the
> >picture.
> >
> >Most technical indicators I know of fail, due to the largeness of the
gap.
> >The only reference points therefore are prior support levels and intraday
> >price action on a 5 to 15 minute chart.
> >
> >Regards
> >Gitanshu
> >
> >
> >
>
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