TraderHank’s 15 minute sell in STI

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My next play was a 15 minute short in STI which had triggered at 12:30 but I did not enter the play until 1:30 because I was waiting for the moving averages to catch up on the 5 minute chart.  I had a nice M top formation, but I still waited until I was under the 20 ma on the 5 minute chart.  If the market had rolled over sooner, I would have entered sooner.  I was really looking for a pull back to the declining 20 ma but it just wasn’t going to happen so I took a GBI entry (green bar ignored).  Price action slowly ground downward but never got going lower even thou the market started to sell off.  Price action finally shook me out at a break even stop, disappointing because I had a nice 50 cent target below with a good reward to risk ratio.  Oh well, a profitable day with my other trade in TGT and that’s it for me today another green day 🙂

STI 01032013
STI 01032013

  

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