In Goldman Sachs, Bullish Money Flow Divergence Beckons

10/03/11 11:22:33 AM

by Donald W. Pendergast, Jr.

With a very pronounced bullish money flow/price divergence in place, shares of Goldman Sachs might very well be on some smart shopper's accumulate list.

Security: GS
Position: N/A

While there is no shortage of Rahul Mohindar oscillator (RMO) swing sell signals in the .SPX (as of Friday, September 30, 2011, there were 55 RMO swing sell signals, nearly 12% of the index), I decided to dig a little and see how many of them were also manifesting signs of bullish long-term price/money flow divergence. While doing so, I was intrigued by the same bullish divergence pattern you see on the chart of Goldman Sachs (GS) here (Figure 1). Normally, short-term divergences are better suited for intraday or short-term swing traders, but the long-term bullish divergence you see here could be a real attraction for those traders/investors who like to build a substantial position in a stock over a period of weeks (or even months), using either a dollar cost averaging method or even a more sophisticated pyramiding method. For example, if you want to own a 100-share position in GS but are hesitant to go all in right now (smart thinking), why not use a pyramiding method like this:

* Buy 10 shares at $95.00 limit
* Buy 15 shares at $92.50 limit
* Buy 20 shares at $90.00 limit
* Buy 25 shares at $87.50 limit
* Buy 30 shares at $85.00 limit

Place a stop-loss on the entire position of 100 shares at $82.50, assuming it all gets filled, and your maximum loss on the entire position before slippage and commissions is about $626 (based on an average price of $88.76). If your conservative price target for the stock is $109.66 (the mid-September swing high), you end up with a very favorable risk/reward ratio of 3.34 to 1, assuming you've got the next series of moves in the stock accurately figured out (possible, but not likely).

The pyramiding method has you putting on smaller positions at higher prices and larger positions at lower prices, and it can work very nicely if you can time a stock hitting a major swing low price zone within a specified time window with high reliability. If you can't do that very well, however, your safest way to play GS on the long side is to take the next RMO swing buy signal and then use a three-bar trailing stop of the daily lows as your trade management method of choice. You won't get in the stock at the lowest possible price, but you'll have a more objective and possibly stress-free way to play Goldman shares, should an autumn rally erupt soon.

FIGURE 1: GS, DAILY. The descending wedge pattern occurs at the same time that the long-term money flow trend is manifesting a noticeably bullish divergence with the price action on the chart, a likely confirmation of big money accumulation.

Graphic provided by: MetaStock.

Take some time and work out various scale and pyramid trading methods in a spreadsheet and see if you can't begin to cook up a variety of new ways to (hopefully) extract trading profits from the stock market.

Donald W. Pendergast, Jr.

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