SMA- earnings play- a beat with a drop for a pop LONG

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SMA reported today with about a 2% drop - while traders responded with a 8% drop. Everybody

especially auto mechanics love their stuff. So were they looking for more? It is hard to say.

Idea is on the chart. I am looking for a recovery in a reversion to the mean. It looks like

it's underway. For those familiar with volume profile analysis and trading the best buy short

was upon the drop out of the high volume area ( lower zagged blue line at 9:45 AM EST) and

the best exit was the transient cross over and above the Hull 35 moving average at 12:15.

This would have been a monster trade of about 600% if the strike 280 expiring 2/16 was taken

about 9:45 AM and closed at 12:!5 PM; the price of about $150 for the single contract would

have yielded $1300 and netted $1150 for those 2.5 hours for an hourly rate of over $400.

Enough said about the short, this idea is about the backside. The stock shares trade is what is

is. The options trade in my opinion only is a call contract striking $ 270 just under the 0.5 fib

retracement is currently priced at about $530. If price gets above $270 or even gets over the

$280 fib level line in the next week, the return again would be 300-600%. I am taking this call

options trade, I will enter on a pivot low of the day on the share price chart. I'll set a stop loss

of 20% meaning about $100 is at risk. 3X the premium is about $ 1600 so the reward to risk

is 16. Managing with TradingViews handy alerts on the stock chart for moving average

inflections and cross-overs as well as MACD line and signal intersections should take about

one hour of combined time in a week. I consider the potential gain to be

excellent for the anticipated expense of time.
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The very best and safe long entry on a lower time frame chart is when price crosses
above the lower boundary of the high volume area with the profile readjusted for the lower time frame. I typically use 3-5 minutes for the entry focus.
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Here is a zoomed-in view on 3 minutes charting. An additional indicator for a precise entry at this time frame is the cross of the green fast RSI line over the 50 level.I fully expect this to happen potentially as early as the premarket. I used a swivel head rachet and socket to change six spart plugs last weekend and then I saw SNA on this week's earnings list and had put it on watch. The spark plug project took longer than this trade so far because the 3 in the back of the top of the 3.3 L v-6 were a pain to remove and replace.

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Yes the ticker in the subject heading should be SNA as in "Snap"
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While price fades, I stay patient that I got a great entry for the V-shaped recovery to come.
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