Michelle B submits:
On Tuesday, April 24, approaching 2 PM, the time of the day that I regard as the Period Of Treachery—fondly referred to as POT—I noted MNST screaming red on the low ticker. I checked to see if there was news to explain the decline, and there was none. I quickly […]
Browsing Measured-Moves™
A ‘Monster’ Capitulation Daytrade
STZ: Bull Flag Separating Two Measured Up Legs
Michelle B submits:
STZ, on Thursday, April 5, released estimate-beating earnings. I noticed STZ during my premarket news reading, and once the market opened, via the top NYSE gainers scan and its notable movement on the high ticker. It gapped up, filled in the gap, and then made new intra highs within the […]
Fractal Fantasy
Michelle B submits:
After noticing PSA on the top ten losers’ scan on the NYSE during this past Friday morning, I checked out its daily and saw a potential second, measured down leg from a bear flag:
PSA gapped down a bit at the open, did a down leg, based at its lows, and then at 1 […]
Pleasures of POT
Michelle B submits:
Estocastica described his trade in MCO yesterday. From noon to 2 P.M., MCO traded in a very tight price range which was essentially a bear flag. This bear flag inclined into the descending 15 minute 20 sma on low volume until shortly before 2 P.M. when the volume picked up a […]
VCLK, Not Just Another Pretty Face
Michelle B submits: In the film, The Object of Beauty, when the hearing-impaired hotel maid was asked why she stole the valuable, small Henry Moore sculpture from one of the hotel’s rooms, she replied that it spoke to her. The pattern VCLK set up this past Thursday spoke just as eloquently to […]
ININ, An Anatomy of a Friday Morning Daytrade
Michelle B submits: I remember reading about a French housewife who when asked by her husband every morning what they would be having for dinner would always give the same tireless reply: “It depends on what jumps into my market basket.” Some traders prefer to trade from a prepared watchlist. For […]
Chart Request: GeoResources, Inc. (GEOI) and Able Energy (ABLE)
This is a first — I got two requests for GEOI in the same day (actually within the same hour). Both GEOI(+242% YTD) and ABLE (+523% YTD) were on fire this week as they resumed their huge rallies from a few months ago. GEOI is looking pretty good right now since it just […]



















