Six weeks after a breakout from a 48.20 pivot, a hypothetical stock has run to 61.80. Then it gives some back. Three weeks in a row close lower, and the…
Three hypothetical positions each carry 500 of planned risk. One depends on a stronger currency, another on lower commodity prices and a third on a related interest-rate move. The account…
A hypothetical stock breaks above 42.00 on a fifteen-minute chart while its daily chart sits beneath repeated highs at 42.50. The short-term move is real, but so is the nearby…
Picture a stock that ran from 41.20 to 84.60 in five months and then spent eight weeks moving sideways. On a zoomed-out weekly chart the pause looks respectable. Price held…
From September 1998 to mid-August 1999, Myriad Genetics traded between a 1.70 low and a 3.34 high, a gene-discovery company whose stock had gone nowhere for eleven months. MYGN is…
A hypothetical trading model earns 0.08 per share before costs. Its execution assumptions allow 0.03 per share for the complete trade, leaving 0.05. If the actual cost rises to 0.09,…
The position was bought on a breakout through 48.20, and the written stop sits at 45.30, a planned risk of 2.90 a share. At 8:40 the next morning the pre-market…
A hypothetical breakout reaches its planned exit at 29.00 after an entry at 30.00. The trader closes the position, records a 1R loss and immediately takes another setup that never…
The plan on the screen is short. A growth stock has built a seven-week base with a pivot at 52.40, the index is holding above its 50-day moving average, and…
A hypothetical trade has an entry at 40.00, an exit reference at 38.00 and a quantity of 500 shares. The planned price risk is 1,000 before costs. If the trader…