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Is your trading style dependent on the overall market sentiment or independent of what the market is doing? I see that most stocks you pick are strong stocks that cycle. I have a similiar strategy that looks for stocks with nice cycles in their Intermediate Term trend. The only thing is they all seem to break up(cycle up) around the same week and cycle down the same week. This happens to correspond with the overall market cycling up and down. jsut some thoughts.
there is not one general rule, sometimes they move in realtion to overall market, sometimes not. I think it is not hard to notice one common theme through all submited charts; this are stocks which after a period of consolidation show first signs of moving up. (or down, for that matter). You can see results of my system in my last journal: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=476871#post476871
Using the "rally attempt analysis" in William J. Oneil's book How To Make Money In Stocks is a good indicator for timing the cycles of the market. This allows us to time the cycles of the stocks better. Currently, my buy list is APPX, DJO, GIVN, INSP, PMTI, NPO, JUPM, BCSI, and CYTC. You posted CYTC a couple of days ago=) If we close above yesterdays high, I will enter these stocks looking for 10 % moves. Please keep the charts coming. I looked at your other thread and was impressed