Sunday, May 11, 2008

Swing Trading Method

This is a method described by Oliver L Verez in his book, “TOOLS AND TACTICS FOR THE MASTER DAY TRADER”.

The method uses candlestick pattern and the relationship between the highs and lows of the price bar to determine entry points.

Entry Rules
1. Price made 3 or more consecutive lower highs
2. Price made 3 or more consecutive lower lows
3. Price made 3 or more consecutive black candle (closing price is less than opening price)
4. When conditions (1) to (3) are met, enter a long position at the high of the previous bar.

Example of such a price pattern is shown below:



Exit Rules
1. Exit after holding the trade for 3 days.


Lets do a case study using Bio-treat.

Based on data from 2004 to 9 May 2008, the trading record is as follows:
Entry DateEntry PriceExit DateExit Price% ChangeDraw Down %Max Gain %Bars Held
5/19/20040.825/24/20040.831.22-1.82931.82933
6/24/20040.876/29/20040.93.4504.0233
12/14/20040.6512/17/20040.625-3.85-4.61542.30773
12/23/2005112/29/20051.055053
6/9/20061.066/14/20061.04-1.89-1.88681.88683
10/23/20070.7510/26/20070.7854.6705.33333
1/23/20080.6251/28/20080.654-46.43

There were a total of 7 trades with 5 winners and 2 losers.

3 comments:

dream said...

Hello, I am wondering if you do trade any of these system yourself? If not, what system do you trade with? Thanks..

Stock Student said...

Hi dream,

I do trade some of the system but not all of them. I combine some of the indicators together to increase the probability of winning and also to prevent overtrading.

dream said...

Hello,

This is a good, knowledgeable blog. Can I link your blog up in mine? Cheers!

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