The Vat Setup For Stock And Option Trading
There is a unique pattern that forms in the price action of momentum stocks that can be exploited to capture huge explosive moves. Using either the stock itself or stock options with this pattern can result in enormous profits if traded correctly. This article will detail how this pattern works with confirming the rally in the general market, selecting the right stocks to trade, using stock charts to spot the setup, why you must know how to draw a proper trendline, use Bollinger Bands with your stock’s chart, spotting gaps or laps in the stock’s price action, and having a trade management plan in place once you are in the trade.
To confirm a rally in the general market I use a method developed by William O’Neil, author of the book “How to Make Money in Stocks”. When the market shows a rally equal or greater than one percent of that particular index with greater volume than the previous trading day then that marks Point 1 or Ground Zero as I call it. Once that occurs then ideally you want to see the same type of rally again at one percent or greater on higher volume than the previous day within 4 trading days. This day is the Follow Thru Day or FTD, and confirms the market is set to rally.
On your charts, you must have a technical indicator called Bollinger Bands on the screen. These bands measure the fluctuation of volatility in a stock’s price action. If the bands are expanding then that shows that price is accelerating in a particular direction. If the bands are constricting or the ends of the bands are turning outward then it indicates low volatility as price action becomes constricted. You must then have a list of stocks that are high in price volatility as well as possess strong earnings along with low debt. For online stock and option trading, you will watch these stocks daily on your stock charts to review their performance while watching for certain types of price patterns which I will detail later.
Once you have a strong list of potential momentum stocks you can watch for a gap in price or a lap in price. A gap results when a stock opens higher than the previous day’s high but still within the previous day’s high of that day while a lap results in a opening above the previous day’s high of the day and never comes down within that previous day’s price action. A gap or a lap is a signal that a trade may be triggered. To confirm a trade, it must break an established downward or flat trendline on the stock as well as reach the upper Bollinger Band. This tells us that price has had an explosive reversal in the trend and is gaining momentum.
Stocks such as Apple Computer, Google, Goldman Sachs, Blue Nile, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and many others have all offered up VAT setups in the past which have resulted in huge returns to stock and option traders that were watching for this type of trade. Apple recently resulted in a 75% gain in just this past year for the author of this article and, presently, RIMM has just triggered a VAT trade as well while the market has been in confirmed rally at the date of this writing.
This is a powerful trading method of getting in early on stocks that are fixing to make huge gains in price which can be exploited with either the stock or, for greater leverage, with stock option trading. These stock moves are explosive and make accelerated gains very quickly. Take the time to build a “hit list” of high performing stocks and watch for these types of trades and you will be rewarded handsomely.














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