# Look for This Before Buying

Canonical: https://tradersdailydirection.com/skilled-traders-need-to-get-used-to-this-2/

Hey friend,

Nothing on the economic calendar today – just a bunch of Fed speeches.

Let’s see how markets have been moving.

## The Daily Direction

![](https://tradersdailydirection.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Screenshot-2026-02-25-at-10.47.58-AM-1024x252.png)

**Note:** All indexes closed higher yesterday and opened higher this morning as well – sending multiple index directions back upward.

## The Daily Nugget

**\_"Informed investors who understand price action are on the lookout for evidence of price shakeouts before they buy."  
\_\*\*\*\*~Mark Minervini**

Understanding price action is understanding investor psychology.

Price shakeouts happen when investors start taking profits are a runup – causing a sideways consolidation to take place.

The price also often dips during this period.

But once this shakeout is over – the weak hands are gone…

Only the strong hands remain…

And new buyers willing to enter at higher prices come in – kicking off the next stage of the rally.

Right now, the entire market has been in a months-long consolidation period.

But that’s not what we want to be paying attention to.

This is a common mistake traders make.

Because you can’t “shake” people out of the broader market – it’s simply too big.

Instead, we want to focus on this shakeout pattern in individual stocks.

And Head Trader Ross Givens just spotted this pattern in two little-known stocks…

Stocks that he believes could potentially surge 50% even in this flat market.

[**Click here to get all the details of those stocks now.**](https://www.tradersagency.com/2-stocks-could-rip-50-percent-flat-market/?tambid=34173) ![](https://tradersdailydirection.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/TASignature-300x75.png)

**_The Traders Agency Team_**