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# Earnings Bearish

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**Strategy Description:**\
Earnings Breakdown is a precision short-selling strategy tailored to capitalize on high-impact downside moves, particularly in the wake of severe earnings disappointments. Built on 60-minute bars, this strategy identifies deeply oversold conditions with strong bearish volume flow, signaling a high-probability continuation of the downtrend. It’s ideal for traders seeking to profit from panic-driven selloffs or systematic re-pricing of company outlooks following poor performance.

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**Core Setup:**

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Bearish Breakdown Conditions:

* Price Breakdown: Current price is below the lower Bollinger Band, indicating price is in a volatility-expansion phase to the downside.
* Momentum Confirmation: RSI (14) is less than 30, signaling an oversold and bearish momentum regime.
* Volume Confirmation: On Balance Volume is less than 0, confirming that selling pressure is dominating.\


**Profit Target & Risk Control:**

* Take Profit: +1.5%
* Stop Loss: -1.5%

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A conservative 1:2 risk-reward structure provides protection in volatile markets while allowing the strategy to ride heavy downward momentum.

Ideal For:

* Traders looking to capture short-term downside continuation in stocks reacting to negative earnings surprises
* Automated strategies scanning for oversold, high-volume breakdowns on hourly timeframes
* Bearish setups in single names with significant institutional selling pressure

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> Earnings Breakdown is purpose-built for traders who want to short into weakness, not guess tops. It offers a systematic approach to identifying accelerated downside setups and executing with conviction when the tape turns red.

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**Next steps:**

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   2. From there, backtest and deploy whenever you're ready.
   3. Reach out to the Level2 team with any questions or if you need tech support

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