How to select a scrip for shorting??
There are quite a few methods. One of the simplest ones I am sharing with you with example.
Step-1:
Select stocks with a Doji at top. For example yesterday EOD when I ran the scan for Doji at top, I got
among others, National Aluminium.
Step-2:
Change the time-frame to 75 minutes and see if there is a negative divergence vis-a-vis a momentum oscillator. The Oscillator of my choice is RSI. Among the stocks scanned in Step-1,I could notice National Aluminium showing negative divergence in 75 min chart:
This completes our homework,as far as stock-selection for shorting is concerned.
Now we shall look in detail about initiating the trade on the short side.
For first 5 minutes (at least--one may extend this time to 15 minutes also),one has not to do anything.
The new session may see the stock
Now, within an hour into the trading session,we saw weakness creeping in.
By this time, our trade set-up came to be like this:
However,price didnot breach our entry level and moved up instead so we changed our Entry and SL in following manner:
And we had our entry very soon:
And in Daily Charts,we appeared like this:
Wasn't that easy ??
There are quite a few methods. One of the simplest ones I am sharing with you with example.
Step-1:
Select stocks with a Doji at top. For example yesterday EOD when I ran the scan for Doji at top, I got
among others, National Aluminium.
Step-2:
Change the time-frame to 75 minutes and see if there is a negative divergence vis-a-vis a momentum oscillator. The Oscillator of my choice is RSI. Among the stocks scanned in Step-1,I could notice National Aluminium showing negative divergence in 75 min chart:
This completes our homework,as far as stock-selection for shorting is concerned.
Now we shall look in detail about initiating the trade on the short side.
For first 5 minutes (at least--one may extend this time to 15 minutes also),one has not to do anything.
The new session may see the stock
- Opening gap-down
- Falling like a water-fall at the opening itself.
Now, within an hour into the trading session,we saw weakness creeping in.
By this time, our trade set-up came to be like this:
However,price didnot breach our entry level and moved up instead so we changed our Entry and SL in following manner:
And we had our entry very soon:
And in Daily Charts,we appeared like this:
Wasn't that easy ??






Sir any scanner you suggest to get doji on top
ReplyDeleteSir, as simple it showed in chart & so simple words of our illustration made so simple for me to understand this 3rd instance of Short trade.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sanjay Samtani (New-Delhi)
That was easy learning
ReplyDeleteNice and simple .
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the detailed explanation in such simple language.
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