Active Trend Trading System Candle Light Trader: Dennis W. Wilborn A Trend Should Be Assumed to Continue in Effect Until Such Time as Its Reversal Has Been Definitely Signaled —Edwards & Magee
Active Trend Trading System Candle Light Trader: Dennis W. Wilborn
A Trend Should Be Assumed to Continue in Effect Until Such Time as Its Reversal Has Been Definitely Signaled —Edwards & Magee
Disclaimer
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Why Active Trend Trading & What is It?
The History
Objective: Clarify, Simplify & Multiply
Clear & Simple Rules for all trends & non-trends Excellent Potential Returns: “Trend Trading for a Living” ~~ Dr. Thomas Carr = 40% +/Year.
Efficient & Effective Use of Trading Capital
What Is It? Trading System going with the Major Trend for both Cash Flow and
Long Term Wealth Building
Uses elements of both Swing Trading & Trend Following
A Strategy of Patience based on Objective and not Subjective Observations
Trading Without a System & Rules
Elements of All Trading/Investing Systems
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When To Enter: Entry Action Points
When To Exit: Exit Action Points
What Strategy To Use
What To Trade
System to Strategy to Campaign
SYSTEM
Stock Strategy ETF Strategy Option Strategy
Active Trend Trading System Rules? What to Trade: 1. IBD 50 Running List Stocks 2. Stocks/Index ETFs Priced Over $10 with volume GTE to 500K shares/day 3. Stocks/Index ETFs with Weekly Options 4. Stocks on the Move/Leaderboard/Sector Leaders 5. Stocks/Index ETFs from my personal and “Go To” List When to Enter: At Objectively defined Action Points 1. Alternative Entry: Bouncing off of Significant Moving Averages
2. IBD Pattern Breakouts
3. Support/Resistance Bounces or Breaks When to Exit: At Objectively defined Action Points 1. Stop Losses: 1-2% above or below swing high or swing low or Closing Price violates
moving average that triggered trade
2. Hard Stop Loss @ 7-8% loss from entry price
3. Profit Stop: Cash Flow Trade a set percentage 5-10%; or closing price violates selected moving average; or at Support/Resistance
4. Profit Stop after candlestick reversal signal & close below/above 8 day EMA
Active Trend Trading System Rules? Cont.
What Strategy to Use: Define Trade as Cashflow, Capital Growth or both 1. Buy Stock or ETF 2. Buy Puts vs selling stock/ETF short 3. Directional Spreads or Directional Options with high Open Interest 4. Short Puts in Uptrending Market
What To Trade
Weekly & Running IBD 50 Watch List Excellent Yearly Performance Time Efficiency
Stocks & ETFs with Weekly Options
Other Growth Stocks Trading Over $10 Ave Volume Greater than or Equal to 500K/Day Ave
Stocks on the Move/Leaderboard/Sector Leaders
Stocks/Index ETFs from my personal “Go To” List
What To Trade: IBD 50 Running List
Weekly & Running IBD 50 Watch List Excellent Yearly Performance
Time Efficiency
Over $15/Share
Focus on IBD stocks trading over 500K shares/day The IBD 50 stocks may be more than enough to focus on and here’s why.
Secondly, during market corrections
this same list also provides
excellent short candidates if one’s
rules allow for trading down
markets.
FISH WHERE THE BIG FISH LIVE:
We have tracked this elite IBD list since 2007 and each year it has significantly outperformed S&P & Nasdaq Indexes.
Top 5 IBD 2013 Results
Best Year Low
to Year High.
Best from the
Close of 2012
thru 2013
When To Enter or Exit: At Objective Action Points
What is an Objective Action Point? - A definable price level on a chart where we can expect something to happen with high probability
I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are repeated. They are recurring patterns that appear over and over, with slight variations. This is because the markets are driven by humans—and human nature never changes.
~ Jesse Livermore
When To Enter: At Objective Action Points
Identify Current Trends, Patterns & Action Points
1. Define The Major Market Trends
2. When trading from an established list, the trend of many
stocks on the list will already be definable
3. Trade with the Major Trend—This is the Edge
4. Define Key Trend Reversals and Entry Action Points
Uptrend: 1. Higher Highs & Higher Lows 2. Up Sloping 20-50-200 day SMA’s 3. 20 day SMA above 50 day SMA (Exceptions: Reversals Patterns
or Higher Lows)
Downtrend: 1. Lower Lows and Lower Highs 2. Down Sloping 20-50-200 day SMA’s 3. 20 day SMA below 50 day SMA (Exceptions: Reversals Patterns
or Lower Highs
Sideways: Chaos 1. Box like pattern or Consolidation Pattern
When To Trade:
Identify Current Trends
Identify Current Trends
At What Points Does the Trend
Reverse?
Multiple Correct Answers
Chaos
Identify Current Trends: Moving Averages
The Moving Averages are key!
Understanding what to expect around the moving averages provides the trader with an edge!
The basic thesis behind moving averages is to identify key resistance and support levels of the underlying security so that one can detect the continuation of a price trend or the emergence of a new price trend….
Moving averages watched by institutions:
20 or 21 Daily
50 Daily
200 Daily
Traders also use shorter timeframe moving averages to better trigger entries and exits. 8 or 10 period EMA works well for these triggers.
Weekly Period Moving Averages which approximate the Daily Moving Averages can also be helpful during analysis.
50 Day Moving Average approximately equals the 8-10 Week Moving Average
200 Day Moving Average approximately equals the 40 Week Moving Average
Identify Current Trends: Moving Averages
Most Important: Decide type to use and then stick with the choice:
The solution isn’t so much which type of moving average is best but how well the trader masters using the moving average chosen.
**Observe how price action responds around the moving averages:
Which moving average does the trend respect?
Know the probabilities: If Price Action violates a moving average at the close, then there is a higher probability the next most significant moving average will be tested
Identify Current Trends: Moving Average
8 EMA
20 SMA
50 SMA
200 SMA
Bullish Stack with
Increasing Spread
between Moving
Averages
Slope, Stack and Spread of moving
averages help define the Trend & Strength & Trade Posture
Identify Current Trends: Moving Average
Slope, Stack and Spread of moving
averages help define the Trend & Strength & Trade Posture
Identify Current Trends, Patterns & Action Points
8 EMA
20 SMA 50 SMA
200 SMA
Uptrend to Downtrend
Lower Low
Rally Failure: Lower High
Identify Current Trends: Moving Average
No Trend : Chaos Mode!
Patterns: Define Action Points
1. IBD Patterns
2. Candle Stick Patterns (Separate Presentation)
3. Moving Average Bounces
4. Trend Line Breaks
Supporting Clues: Keltner Channels, Stochastics & Momentum
Entry Action Points
1. IBD Proper Buy Points
2. Active Trend Trading Buy Points
Critical Requirement: Objective Buy Points for Both
Identify Proper Strategic Entries & Position Sizing
- William O’Neil: Fewer is better. Hold no more than 5-8 stocks. For accounts less than $100K should be no more than 4-5 stocks.
- Options: size to meet 7-8% loss in stock or less
- Learn how Margin works
- Objective not Subjective
Identify Proper Strategic Entry Action Points
Trend Line
Break
Action Point: Moving
Average Bounce
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2 3
4
5 Cup Break
Out
Identify Proper Strategic Bearish Entry Action Points
Trend Line Break
Action Point: Moving Average Bounce
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2
3
4 5
Cup Break
Out
Thoughts on Strategic Exit Action Points
Executing a proper exit can be challenging unless the trader acts automatically at well-defined strategic exits Action Points. Again with an aim at keeping this initial strategy simple and objective the following exits are suggested. Stop Loss: 1. Hard Stop Loss at 7-8% of entry price if entering off an IBD Breakout 2. Breaking Swing Low or High on Alternative entries by 1-2% or tighter 3. Close below Moving average that triggered trade Profit Stops: Define Cashflow or Capital Growth 1. Profit Target at 20-25% of entry price (Move on underlying for Options) 2. Areas of Resistance/Support like moving averages 3. Close below Moving average that triggered trade 3. Stay in trade until a close below the 8 day EMA
4. Cash Flow Trades: Once paper profit is up over 10% adjust trailing stop to
entry price plus 5% and then increase trailing stop by 2.5% for every 5% increase in stock price. Or close below 8 day EMA.
Thoughts on Strategic Exit Action Points
Determine if the trade is a Cash Flow Trade, a Capital Growth Trade or both. Consider: 1. Is the trade in an IRA or 401K? – Might want to just do Capital Growth Trades
2. Do you need Cash Flow?
3. Do you need both?
How one answers these questions can help with pre-trade strategies on where and how to take profit. See Alternative Exits at the BAMM Site under files.
Profit Targets
Entry 2: Bounce off 200 day SMA
Exit Trade 2: Cash Flow
12.7% in 6 days
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5
Entry 5: Cup Break Out
Exit Trade 5:
26.5% in 24 days
Cash Flow Trade: Take
profit at the Moving
Average Resistance
Objective or Subjective?
Cash Flow and Capital Growth Trades can be concurrent taking ½ position profit at a defined level of resistance or % Gain. Then the Capital Growth portion can be held until a longer term profit objective is hit or a trailing stop based on a close below a significant moving average take place.
Profit Targets
Entry 3 Moving Average Bounce/Break
3
Exit Trade 3:
8% in 27 days
Max Profit Target on Downside Trades = 20-25%
What Strategy to Use
1. Buy Stock or ETF’s: IMHO this is the best strategy to use, fewer variables, thus the simplest to manage!!! Learn to be successful here first.
2. Buy Puts vs selling stock/ETF short 3. Directional Spreads 4. Short Puts in Uptrending Market
A Few Recent Trades
It doesn’t happen every time, but it does
happen all the time!
Yogi-ism from Mike Trager
Enter 9-11 @ 21.95 Exit 9-23 @ 25.86 17.8% in 13 days
Order place on 9/11 didn’t fill. Good No Trade after Shooting Star Pattern
Enter 9-4 @ 54.50 As of 9-25 8 day EMA @ 61.84 13.46% in 21 days
Active Trend Trading System Rules? What to Trade: 1. IBD 50 Running List Stocks 2. Stocks/Index ETFs Priced Over $10 with volume GTE to 500K shares/day 3. Stocks/Index ETFs with Weekly Options 4. Stocks on the Move/Leaderboard/Sector Leaders 5. Stocks/Index ETFs from my personal and “Go To” List When to Enter: At Objectively defined Action Points 1. Alternative Entry: Bouncing off of Significant Moving Averages
2. IBD Pattern Breakouts
3. Support/Resistance Bounces or Breaks When to Exit: At Objectively defined Action Points 1. Stop Losses: 1-2% above or below swing high or swing low or Closing Price violates
moving average that triggered trade
2. Hard Stop Loss @ 7-8% loss from entry price
3. Profit Stop: Cash Flow Trade a set percentage 5-10%; or closing price violates selected moving average; or at Support/Resistance
4. Profit Stop after candlestick reversal signal & close below/above 8 day EMA
Active Trend Trading System Rules? Cont.
What Strategy to Use: Define Trade as Cashflow, Capital Growth or both 1. Buy Stock or ETF 2. Buy Puts vs selling stock/ETF short 3. Directional Spreads or Directional Options with high Open Interest 4. Short Puts in Uptrending Market
It doesn’t happen every time, but it does happen all the time! Yogi-ism from Mike Trager
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Dennis W. Wilborn Email: [email protected]
I absolutely believe that price movement patterns are repeated. They are recurring patterns that appear over and over, with slight variations. This is because the markets are driven by humans—and human nature never changes.
~ Jesse Livermore