Trading Idea - Breaking Out?

Published on Friday, 03 September 2010 06:20 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

New York, September 3rd (TradersHuddle.com) - Shares of () closed the trading session at $47.25 just above calculated resistance at $47.24 effectively breaking out, grabbing the attention of momentum traders, which could eventually push the stock to different trading range

stock was trading in a well defined range with support at $29.53 and resistance at $47.24, given that this range was broken traders will be closely monitoring the stock?s price action for clues of direction.

From a technical perspective it can be expected that previous resistance becomes support, as the new range gets defined, however, given that stock is still near the broken resistance level, traders will be focusing on $47.24 to see if the stock holds the breakout without rolling over.