After a 2 month long downtrend, including announcing bad third quarter results, $IMH seemed to have found it´s bottom and started to turn around. On December 3rd they announced the sale of one of their subsidairies. The subsidairy AmeriHome Mortgage Corpartion, which was a redundant mortgage operational platform, will not only improve near term cash balances and profitability but will also help the Company to streamline its mortgage operations. The additional cash from the sale will allow the Company to continue to build its mortgage servicing portfolio. This news was what IMH needed to find it´s bottom and try to get back up.

December 09-12: The chart shows the first white candle on the day of the news, December 3rd, and the trading volume increased as well. The third day the chart showed a doji canlde which can be a turnaround sign, but as you can see it wasn´t. As it  still wasn´t clear to me what to stock was going to do I decided to wait for a definite sign in the chart.

December 11-12: The next day it continued to gain and show another white candle, this should have been a sign to enter a long position as  it seems the trend is going higher. It closed just under $5.50, with support at $5.25 and the next resistance just under $6.00. This would have giving me a 1:2 risk/reward ratio. But I wanted to see it break the big resistance of $6.00, as this was the price the stock traded around for about 8 days. 

If it could break through $6.00 and make this big resistance support it would be even better for me. In that case the risk was just a few cents under my possible entry in the low 6. And my potential reweard would be it’s next resistance just over $6.50. So let’s say I could buy at $6.10, than it would make a 1:5 risk/reward ratio that sounds much better to me.

December 12-12: In the opening the stock broke $6.00 and I entered a buy order for 150 shares which got filled at $6.07. Around 11.30am the stock topped just under $7.00 and traded around $6.75 for the rest of the day. I’m holding my position overnight as the intra-day chart looks strong and I am anticipating a gap-up tomorrow. 

December 13-12: It opened at $7.11, great gap-up this morning and it soon spiked up to it’s day high of $7.84. I sold of my position into this morning spike and got out at $7.63. A nice 25% profit on this great chart play! After this spike it went down and found support around $6.50. 

Will be watching where this stock goes from here. It found a solid support around $6.75 from early November. If it can continue it’s uptrend this week the next real resistance is at $8.25. Which gives another great risk/reward potential. Still a potential long for me when it shows a strong start of the week.