{"id":908,"date":"2012-04-03T12:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2012-04-03T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T16:43:37","slug":"10-gain-on-a-2-week-hold-swing-trade-in-polaris-industries-pii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/10-gain-on-a-2-week-hold-swing-trade-in-polaris-industries-pii\/","title":{"rendered":"10% gain on a 2-week hold (swing trade in Polaris Industries &#8211; $PII)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0is a review of our recent swing trade in Polaris Industries (PII). The chart below shows the technical buy setup prior to our entry:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/~rick\/charts\/2011\/120403PII.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>On March 23, subscribers of <em>The Wagner Daily<\/em> were alerted to a breakout entry in PII. The strong closing price (near high of the day) and big volume confirmed the breakout:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/~rick\/charts\/2011\/120403PII2.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>After a few days of consolidation on lighter volume, PII broke above the prior swing high on April 3 (today). We took profits by selling into strength on April 4, <strong>locking in a 10% gain on the trade while risking only 4%<\/strong>. This equates to a 2.5 to 1 reward-to-risk ratio on the trade (10% \/ 4%), which is a very solid ratio for a two-week holding period:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/~rick\/charts\/2011\/120403PII3.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" title=\"\"><br \/>\n<em>To participate in our next big winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/services\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to get started with your membership to our nightly ETF and stock newsletter today, from less than $2 per day (based on annual subscription). You may also wish to view visit our free, educational <a title=\"Browse the MTG newsletter archives\" href=\"https:\/\/www.morpheustrading.com\/the-wagner-daily\/\" target=\"_blank\">archive of past ETF and stock newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0is a review of our recent swing trade in Polaris Industries (PII). The chart below shows the technical buy setup prior to our entry: On March 23, subscribers of The Wagner Daily were alerted to a breakout entry in PII. The strong closing price (near high of the day) and big volume confirmed the breakout: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stock-trading-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morpheustrading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}