Friday, 24 April 2020

Shorting Candidates

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

  1. Opening gap-down
  2. Falling like a water-fall at the opening itself.
In both the above instances,we have not to do anything and treat it as a missed bus. But if the stock doesnot do any of the above,then we have to watch the price-action closely and derive at our entry and stop-level points judiciously.
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 ??




5 comments:

  1. Sir any scanner you suggest to get doji on top

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  2. Sir, 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.
    Thanks Sanjay Samtani (New-Delhi)

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  3. Many thanks for the detailed explanation in such simple language.

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