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The stock below, KeyCorp, is a good short candidate in its own right, but it’s also representative of the kind of short I’m seeking these days. It has these elements:
+ a clean topping pattern;
+ a firm drop, exhibiting that it’s vulnerable to the general weakness we saw in past weeks;
+ a hearty bounce, pushing it to a more attractive risk/reward level.
As with so many other stocks, this one has a horizontal line anchored on a gap (in this instance, at a dollar value of $12.71) (more…)
Well, pretty-much filled, anyway. I’d say the recovery is over for this one.
Bank of America had a gap of 15.93 which has been closed, to my eyes, satisfactorily. I am now short the stock and long the August $17 puts.
Interest rates have been zooming higher the past four days. I think an important level to watch is the gap on $TNX at 26.11 (that is, a rate of 2.611%). If it stllls there and starts working lower, the drop in interest rates will probably accelerate to new lows for the year.
