Experiment: How far do falling knives and dead cats bounce?
This is an experiment to see if we can make money on a stock with horrible fundamentals (BTU just got downgraded), and the stock had fallen 98% over several years.
This stock has been accelerating it's decline since 2011. I gave each declining tops line a different color. You can see the slope of lines has gotten steeper with time (blue, yellow orange, red, maroon).
However, it appears that the stock has finally broken this pattern and may have established an upward channel. I have outlined this channel in green. Is this an indication that stock owners have capitulated and oversold this stock?
With the horrible fundamentals, I don't expect a long term trend to take hold. I am just wondering how far of a retracement we might see in the short term. At a minimum, I think we could see this bounce up between the 50% and 61.8% levels, which is where it would hit the longer term yellow tops-line.
The ideal long entry would be after a small dip back to the bottom of the green channel, with a very close stop right below the green line.
This stock has been accelerating it's decline since 2011. I gave each declining tops line a different color. You can see the slope of lines has gotten steeper with time (blue, yellow orange, red, maroon).
However, it appears that the stock has finally broken this pattern and may have established an upward channel. I have outlined this channel in green. Is this an indication that stock owners have capitulated and oversold this stock?
With the horrible fundamentals, I don't expect a long term trend to take hold. I am just wondering how far of a retracement we might see in the short term. At a minimum, I think we could see this bounce up between the 50% and 61.8% levels, which is where it would hit the longer term yellow tops-line.
The ideal long entry would be after a small dip back to the bottom of the green channel, with a very close stop right below the green line.