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Thursday, November 25th, 2010
The Nicolas Darvas Entry Strategies
Aggressive entry occurs when a trader buys a stock before it has broken out of its Nicolas Darvas box. The trader buys in anticipation of the stock breaking out of its box. Buying before the breakout is risky because there is no assurance that the stock will actually break out of its Darvas box. The trader is making a guess that it will. The advantage to buying before the breakout is that the entry price will be closer to the stop-loss order.
Another consequence of buying before the breakout is that a trader can possibly capture more profit from the beginning of the trend. However, in today’s volatile markets, a stock is almost as likely to plummet as to rise. Buying before the breakout puts the entry price closer to the stop-loss order. Should the stock plummet, the trader will lose less money.
Delayed entry is when a trader will not buy on or directly after the breakout, but will wait for the price to come back down. In a trend where a stock is just starting to form Darvas boxes, this tactic can increase the amount of profit. Instead of buying on a high, the trader will buy on a low, most likely one of the lows used to form the next Darvas system box. This entry point is closer to the stop-loss order set by the previous valid Darvas box and minimizes any loss should the trend fail.
