I say it would be easy only if you buy and hold. Because it went out of that trend, then went considerably down. then it went up between the earnings but after earnings was red - that would have led a lot of traders off. Almost back testing the trend and then going up. The market was down until february so it would be hard to invest a lot in a wild swing stock at that time. But of course, zooming out it is easier to assess - still, i see a lot of stocks first selling off on a breakout - old strategy seems to work in a different way now