Coinstar Gives Us Some Cash...
The Dynamic Wealth Report
January 20, 2010
by Justin Bennett, Editor
Just about a month ago, I showed you a way to put some money in your
pocket. It was a trading opportunity in Coinstar (CSTR). Some of you
collected a nice profit and some of you probably lost money. I’ll tell
you what made the difference.
Let me briefly recap the trade idea…
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CSTR was about to test the $25 support zone. I told you, “An entry
around $25.00-$25.25 would be a great entry. Control your downside risk
with a stop loss at the $23.45 level. This gives you $1.55 worth of
chart risk ($25.00-$23.45=$1.55). If the trade works in your favor, look
to take at least a partial profit around $29. This gives you a nice
reward to risk ratio of at least 2 to 1.”
Here’s a current chart of CSTR…

As you can see, we caught a nice bounce in CSTR. It traded up to
$30
before pulling back.
Those of you watching the trade know how close it was to stopping out. Our stop loss was $23.45 and CSTR traded as low as $23.49... a mere
$0.04 from the exit point.
This brings up some important lessons…
Many of you may have given up on this trade when it traded below $24.
Sometimes these trades hit the support level and turn on a dime. Other
times they’ll trade into the support zone before finding a strong bid. CSTR traded deep into the support zone before igniting.
But it never
touched the pre-planned stop loss.
The bottom line is this…
Some traders got scared out of the trade. They lost money. If you were
one of them, you have some mental work to do. You must learn to accept
the risks of trading.
You see, there’s a common misconception in trading. Most people think
that since they’re trading, they’re accepting the risks of trading. This
couldn’t be further from the truth! If you get scared out of trades
easily, here’s the reality…
You’re unwilling to take small preplanned losses to get to the eventual
big winner. (And that will cost you in the long run.)
You’re too afraid of the trade going against you. Instead of keeping
with the original plan, you change plans midstream if the stock weakens. You’re bailing out of trades… you need to give the trades a little more
time to work.
You don’t want to lose money,
period. Guess what, trading doesn’t work
that way…
How do you fix this issue?
Learn to fully
accept the risks of your trades. In the case of CSTR, you
should’ve been willing to have the trade hit the $23.45 stop loss before
exiting. And you must be completely OK with it! Make a plan and stick to
it. After all, if you were willing to let CSTR hit your stop loss… you
could have made money on the trade!
Here’s another lesson from CSTR…
There was another way to enter the CSTR trade. It’s called using
confirmation. It’s when you wait to see other buyers step in before you. Let some other traders get some skin in the game before you put your
money to work.
Take a look….
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The trade is still based on the $25 support zone. But by waiting for
others to confirm the trade, you could’ve entered at a lower price. Buyers didn’t start stepping up in force until the 10th of December. Once you saw this buying interest, you’d be entering that day or the
following morning.
Waiting for confirmation is just another way to enter. It’s a good way
to get into trades with a little less risk.
Either way, CSTR was a nice trade…
For those of you who took the trade and got a profit out of it,
congratulations.
Support zone trades happen like this all the time. Be on the lookout for
them as your scanning your charts. It’s a great way to capture profits
with controlled risk.
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