Stan Weinstein is one of the godfathers of technical analysis.
His book, Secrets for Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets, is on my desk as I type this.
It’s one of my favorites.
Sam was a big proponent of stage analysis, which I have written about in length.
As regular readers know, we buy in Stage 2. And we sell in Stage 4.
But what is the ideal entry point?
How do you know if you are too early or too late?
The Ideal Short Sale
The image below is from Stan’s book…
It identifies three entry points for selling a stock short.
Those of you who have attended my live Stealth Trades sessions are no doubt familiar with the four stages of the stock cycle.
You can probably point them out on the chart.
You know that points A and B are the beginning of Stage 4. Point C is a continuation of that decline.
The Initial Breakdown
Sell point A is essentially a breakout, but in reverse.
Instead of waiting for a stock to break higher above resistance, you short it when it breaks down through support.
If you miss that entry, you generally get a second chance on the re-test at point B.
Inexperienced investors who have been trained to “buy the dip” will often step in when a stock gets cheap and push it back to the previous breakout level.
This is one of my favorite places to sell a stock short.
The previous support level now serves as resistance, and the stock is likely to fall again when it touches that level.
The Last Leg Lower
The third place to sell short is point C.
Just as stocks offer multiple buy points on the way up, they do the same thing on the way down.
After a significant drop in price, the stock will consolidate in a tight range to form a base.
This is the result of short sellers covering their positions and other investors adding to their positions on the dip.
(This is a terrible strategy by the way. Just take a look at Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) and you’ll see what I mean.)
In any case, once the base fails and the stock breaks through the low, point C is another high probability area to enter a short trade.
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