NTRP was running up and holding strong all morning. It had a big gap to fill on the daily to 4.30. I was waiting for an entry on the pullback and I had my line around 2.50 hoping for an early washout but it held up all morning. Instead, I waited for the washout around the VWAP level  to trap shorts because this was an ETB ticker and the next leg up would need a squeeze to break HOD. The price action started bottoming out around 2.90 level and climbed back up. I wanted to see what the price action would do around the vwap and if volume would come back in. It broke over vwap with ease so I waited for confirmation that it would hold. Once it held I got in at 3.12 and had a target profit of HOD with stop loss at 2.89.

Risk: 21c Reward: 38c

Two Reasons to take the Trade: Failed Low 1 / Strong Bull Reversal Bar

After taking the loss on the low 1, a failed signal can be a signal and immediately switch to long on the strong reversal bar.

First profit target would have been hit.

Two Reasons to take the Trade: Top of TR / Reversal Bar

Once there was a reversal bar at the top of the trading range, the market could have been putting in its high of day, however, after a large gap up on the day and turning up after testing the prior day day, odds favored a third push up.

Should have realized the gap up was the first push up for the day, and the push up from the test of the prior day high was the second push up, which would have made me more aware of a third push up inside of trying to short in the middle of the wedge pattern.

Two Reasons to Enter Trade: Test of Prior Day High / ii pattern

The original stop loss would have never been hit both profit targets would have been reached two bars after entry

Jammed stop at breakeven because I entered with only one contract and did not want to lose any money, must continue to use my systematic technical stop loss. 

(Day 15 of Evaluation)

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