Choosing the right A-B segment is a crucial aspect of the ‘reverse-ABC’ (rABC) trade. We have yet to settle on any firm rules, but this lesson delved into some finely nuanced reasons for selecting one A-B leg over another. Although A-B should in some ways resemble the A-B legs we would use in regular ABCD patterns, there are good reasons to vary them, including the need to determine how much time we will need to set up the trade.
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Trading a Cheap Stock on a Small Budget
– Posted in: TutorialsLooking to make spare change with low-risk trades in a cheap stock? Here’s an easy one in Uber that netted a $70 gain on 400 shares in under an hour. The stock sells for around $32, making it cheap enough for even a $10,000 account to comfortably handle the margin on four round lots. We used an rABC pattern with a point ‘C’ high that was established after the session ended. From the time the trade triggered it took exactly 41 minutes to touch the red line where 50%-100% could have been covered. The low went on to touch p2, which would have been worth an additional $70 in profits. One trade like this one every day and you’ll have an extra $35,000 to spend at the end of the year.
Zooming OUT for a Change
– Posted in: TutorialsWe zoomed out on the charts this time, since short-fuse rABC set-ups have been generating more opportunities than we can handle. It turns out that many of them are requiring buy- or sell-stop entries just seconds after a prospective point ‘C’ high or low is in. Be sure to check out the trade in December Silver in the second half of the class. This set-up was meticulously crafted to produce a trade that not only gave us sufficient time to get aboard, but which anyone could have done using the simple rules that govern this entry tactic.
rABC Quickies
– Posted in: TutorialsWe continued our experimentation with rABC trades on short-interval charts. Some of the trading vehicles we exploited in real time, including AMZN, will appeal only to high rollers who are looking for a quick in-and-out opportunity to bag their daily profit quota. But please note that the same trade set-ups are applicable using any $20 or $30 stock that suits your fancy.
Why ‘rABC’ Has Become Our Workhorse
– Posted in: TutorialsSo-called ‘reverse rABC’ patterns have become our workhorse for initiating trades, since they can easily be substituted for all of the other entry tactics we have used in the past. During this lesson, we saw once again that it is possible to initiate an rABC trade in the lesser times frames, but also to adjust them on-the-fly in accordance with one’s preference for risk. See this tactic vividly in action as we zoom in and out of a trade in TLT toward the end of the lesson.
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Register for the Next Live Wednesday Tutorial Rick's Hidden Pivot Tutorial is normally held every Wednesday at 11:00 AM EST Click the link below to register to attend the next live Wednesday HP Tutorial When you register for the next live Tutorial, GOTO Webinar will send you a link that you will use to enter the webinar. Please safeguard the link as the link does not come from Rick's Picks. You should receive the link in about 2 to 15 minutes. If you don't get a link, let us know via subscriptions@rickackerman.com In these Wednesday Tutorials, Rick gives continuing HP education using real time charts. Rick highly recommends that all HP subscribers and graduates attend these sessions. Rick uses these sessions to introduce new HP concepts and strategies. This is part of the Hidden Pivot training. Don't miss out! Register for the next live Wednesday Tutorial (October 2)
Two Winning rABC Tricks
– Posted in: TutorialsAnother session with rABC trades coming fast and furious on the lesser charts. There are two important takeaways: 1) If a nice-looking rABC set-up fails to produce a winner and gets stopped out, prepare immediately to try again, since your odds will actually IMPROVE on the second attempt; and, 2) rABC midpoint pivots can be used the same as conventional ABC midpoints for purposes of determining the likelihood of a D target being reached. This means that if the C-D leg of rABC blows past 'p', the 'D' target is likely to be achieved. You can 'convert' this knowledge into a mechanical set-up if you prefer to initiate the trade with a limit order rather than the stop orders that apply to rABC entries.
Fast, Furious…and Profitable
– Posted in: TutorialsPivoteers who are new to the Wednesday sessions may have felt like they were strapped into the cockpit of an F-22 Raptor at the end of our hour together. The information will come at you fast and furious, but nearly all of it bears directly on tradeable set-ups that you can do all day long with relatively little risk. Most of the trades are rABC’s, but a ‘mechanical’ entry off Amazon’s one-minute chart is worth the price of admission. Enjoy!
Trades a-Plenty with ‘rABC’
– Posted in: TutorialsWe had our hands full executing all of the rABC set-ups that came our way. The focus was on charts of stocks and futures in lesser time frames, with the goal of finding sufficient day-trading opportunities to make a living at it. Turns out there are plenty of them – more, in fact, than we could handle. But lightning-quick execution skills are crucial in many instances, as is the capability of setting up stop-limit entries, even as they keep mutating with changing ‘C’ highs and lows. We were particularly careful in determining whether these trades would have been stopped out on closer inspection. You can see for yourself that, in fact, most of them worked out, delivering a steady stream of profits. Another important observation: When you get stopped out of a promising rABC trade, pick yourself up and do it again, since the second try turns out to offer even better odds.