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Old 11-04-2007, 08:18 AM
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Re: Taylor Trading Technique Nov 2007

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o.k now we have 2 days of High to Low, hence for 5-11, Monday's probable price action, we should be looking for a Low violation to go long.
that is right. however, given the location of the close relative to the intraday low, we seem unlikely to get that 'low violation' as we are actually closer to a 'high violation' than a 'low violation' given the closing price.

note we made an afternoon 'higher low' as there appeared to have been a wall of buyers down near 1503.00. when you build up a lot of volume low in the recent range and form a late afternoon 'higher low' --- this generally means the market will attempt to auction up next -- which aligns nicely with the 2 recent 'high to low' days.

So we are in the situation of having a bullish bias but we might get a 'high violation' first, which for Taylor is short-term bearish. Thus, what do you do?

Plan B would set-up something like this (keep in mind Fridays closing price of 1517.75):

1) You get a high violation above 1520.50 into the mid-1520's, call it 1525.

2) 15-min 20ema closed near 1511 -- thus a big premium to that is short-term bearish as we tend to move back towards this EMA IF we start out really far away from it. 1511 + ~13pts = 1524.00 --- this might be a shortable level. (Note 15-min EMA will be moving up so call it 1524-1526 zone for now)

3) You look at support/resistance: this is not super clear but I do see a lot of past volume occured in the 1530-1532.50 zone. 1525-30 has been very 'noisy' (tricky) as well.

So if we trade directly up toward 1525-30 area, I would not want to be long and would consider a short but only for a short-term trade back towards the 15-min 20ema. (note this is just in the morning, as Taylor likes to stress looking for 'morning reversals' on tests of key levels). If trades into 1525+ zone, right away -- then we 'could' have a 'high made first' and make the high for the day there. We also might just need to trade down from there to test lower before going back up for a 'low to high' day. But either way, the location slightly favors shorting there.

The better trade would be for it to trade back down towards the '15-min 20ema' and then potentially go long in hopes of a 'low to high' day. This is consistent with 2 high to low days, the Friday buying that occured low in the recent range and buying on a correction would be consistent with buying a 'higher bottom' vs Fridays low --- Taylor talked a lot about buying 'higher bottoms'.

Thus my initial gameplan is:
Look to be a buyer on Monday as the day looks to have a constructive set-up,
but
in back of mind, consider a short if the market starts out 'too high' and play for a short-term trade back towards the 15-min ema - then potentially look long.

I think this thinking is similar thinking to Taylors core concepts of:
'buying a higher bottom'
and/or
'buy day, high made first'

After that initial gameplan, its about reading the intraday action.


Last edited by Dogpile; 11-04-2007 at 08:24 AM.
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