Stalking A Swing Trade

If you want to swing trade, you need to have patience. Like a lion quietly waiting in the bush. You need to stalk your trades.

Then when the time is finally right… YOU POUNCE!

STALKING CYBERARK SOFTWARE ($CYBR)

After riding it up from Jan – June, I kept it on a special “interesting ideas” watch list. This is the spot where I keep all my ideas that i don’t want to lose track of.

I’ll check this list every weekend and see what’s setting up. There’s about 100 ideas on this list.

On Nov 16 I saw $CYBR setting up. I shared my thoughts on this idea in TRADER’S MINDCHAT.

Here’s what I wrote:

Seeing a symmetrical triangle down on the daily and below. I’m aware of the potential resistance at the 200dma and 40wk line. If we bust above there, we’ve got a clear run to highs at 148. Do we get there? Who knows. That’s why we look at the target as a POTENTIAL and we call it “Potential R”. It’s the next major level of resistance. . Always manage your reward:risk throughout the trade.

TICKER	EARNINGS (MM-DD-YYYY)	SECTOR	SENTIMENT	SETUP
$CYBR	02-16-2020	Software	Bullish	Symmetrical Triangle

TIMEFRAME	ENTRY	STOP LOSS	TARGET	POTENTIAL ‘R’
Daily and below	$115.70	$111.70	$148.00	8.08

This gave us a potential 8R trade! I love that s***!

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$CYBR broke out Nov 18. Here’s how I’m playing it.

1. I am playing it on the 2HR. While I’m AWARE of many timeframes (I keep track of monthly, weekly, daily, 2hr, 30min, 15min), when trading, it’s important to trade on just one.
2. I hit 1R (1x the amount I risked) when CYBR touched 119.76. That prompted me to raise my stop. Support developed just above my entry point and I moved my stop up to 116.10
3. I’m using the 5ema as a trailing stop for 1/4 of my position. Same deal for the 10ema. If we close below that, I’ll sell another 1/4.
4. My ultimate profit target for this is 148. IT’S RARE to get there smoothly. With that profit target, this trade started out as an 8:1 reward:risk. IF at any point the price action makes the ratio less than 3:1 w/o creating a fresh area of support, I’ll take 25% off.

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