CSIQ: Many traders are paralyzed to buy Breakouts or short Breakdowns out of fear that they will quickly fail – particularly from bottoming and topping patterns. Master Trader teaches how to detect the “tells” to ensure that these Setups will succeed. Let’s start by looking at the bottoming price action on CSIQ during May. Clearly in a downtrend, it finally had a bullish retracement to the declining 50-MA, a sign of strength. Notice the violent up and down moves for two weeks, allowing the 20- and 50-MA to start to flatten out, both good signs of bottoming action. But we trade candlesticks and patterns. The blue arrow shows a a bullish Wide Range Bar (+WRB), closing at the top end of this consolidation area and negating prior bearish –WRBs. After the +WRB, there was a bullish inside bar which stayed in the upper 40% of the +WRB. This is what we call a Master Trader 1-2-3 Continuation (+123) where we look for bullish stock or option trades. As with all Setups, we require a Price Void (i.e., insignificant resistance to the left for longs), which existed with CSIQ because of the multi-week bottoming action. We recommended buying calls (which give the benefit of leverage and limited risk) when the +123 triggered. It triggered where shown, providing us with an easy-to-manage profitable swing trade (86% ROC in four days using call options!).

NARI: NARI is another Master Trader 1-2-3 Continuation (+123) Breakout from a bottoming pattern, but obviously set up differently. The first blue arrow shows a very bullish gap which didn’t retrace; instead, it went sideways for another seven days, closing with a small Breakout. The next two bule arrows show bullish Wide Range Bars (+WRB), a sign of strength after the Breakout from the prior consolidation. We recommended buying the stock when the +123 triggered where shown, providing us with an easy-to-manage profitable 8-day swing trade.