[mongoose1969]

What are your thoughts on BANX? It looks like they are in consolidation since May and trying to make a move. I've been trying to figure out their subsector to look at how that is performing. Again, still trying to learn the charts but it looks like it's trying to head in the right direction.

I've attached the weekly ichimoku chart, which gives a visual representation of the overhead resistance.



Resistance is one of the four critical components to the Stage Analysis method, and also the most overlooked, as it's often ignored by people when they see the other components are in place i.e. Price Action, Volume and Relative Performance. But my studies over the years into what makes an A+ candidate for the method have shown me that it's critical to the methods success, and so shouldn't be ignored imo.

So my solution for a quick visual test to help to determine where the historical resistance is and the amount if time needed when considering potential Stage 2A breakouts is to use the weekly ichimoku cloud, as it's an excellent way of seeing resistance, and so until a stock is trading above it's weekly cloud, it's still working through a headwind of resistance, and so can't be an A+ candidate. And at the end of the day, as an investor you only want to be trading stocks that have A+ potential setups, as anything less will increase the chance of failure or simply produce mediocre returns. And the methods about finding stocks that can produce exceptional returns.

So learn to look for the exceptional, and be harsh and discard anything that doesn't meet the full criteria. It doesn't mean that a stock might not turn out to be an A+ candidate if it doesn't have the full criteria at the intial Stage 2A breakout. But you've always got to consider the opportunity costs of any investment that you make, as it's money that you then can't put into another stock later that shows more potential.

For additional information of what to look for A+ candidates I created the Stage Analysis Breakout Quality Checklist thread. So read through that and see if what you are looking at matches those requirements.

Isatrader,

I've read through your thread and set up that indicator. I want to be sure I'm looking at the cloud the way I'm supposed to. Is the goal to make sure the cloud is not as "thick" above the price like it looks with BANX? As I look at something like RDCM, the cloud is actually under the price trend. I guess I need an assist with what I'm supposed to be looking at with that cloud.