How to Turn Weekly Barron’s Mentions Into High-Probability Supply & Demand Trades

Weekly Market Breakdown by Precision Trading Labs

Every week, Barron’s highlights a handful of stocks they believe are positioned for interesting moves. But here’s the challenge:

Most traders don’t know how to convert those ideas into real, actionable trades using structure, price action, and clear risk management.

In this week’s breakdown, we filtered several Barron’s symbols through our supply & demand methodology — and the charts were unusually clean. Below is the full recap of each trade setup, including the one that already delivered a 50% return.

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🚀 Rocket Mortgage (RKT): Clean Daily Supply Zone Rejection

Rocket Mortgage immediately stood out because price revisited a well-defined daily supply zone — an area where buyers were previously exhausted and sellers aggressively stepped in.

Our community expressed the trade in multiple ways:

• Shorting the stock
  
  
• Buying puts
  
  
• Selling bear call vertical credit spreads
  
  

Regardless of the method, the thesis was the same:
Price returned to a zone with untapped selling pressure.

Confluence also mattered:

• Price was near the upper Bollinger Band
  
  
• Price had just rejected the 200-day simple moving average
  
  

This created a high-probability setup with clearly defined risk.

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📉 Instacart (CART): Drop–Base–Drop Supply Zone Trigger

Last week, we identified a drop–base–drop supply zone forming on Instacart. This week, price climbed directly back into that level — exactly what we were waiting for.

From there, we positioned with:

• January 16th, 44-strike puts (approx. 0.60 delta)

Why this structure?
We avoid lotto-ticket options. A higher delta lets us participate meaningfully if price responds to the zone — without needing a massive move.

A reward-to-risk “ladder” showed potential 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 exits depending on how far price falls.

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💡 Boston Scientific (BSX): Completed Trade — Up 50%

This setup came from a recent Barron’s mention on medical devices.

The chart revealed a quality demand zone:

• Drop → Base → Rally (classic formation)
  
  
• Clear exhaustion of sellers
  
  
• Strong institutional buying footprint
  
  

When price retested the zone, we entered with:

Jan 16th, 95-call (deep enough in the money for strong delta)

Entry: $5.90
Exit: $8.35
Return: +50% in just a few days

This is a real example of taking a Barron’s thesis, stripping out opinion, and trading solely based on supply/demand imbalance.

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⏳ Kroger (KR): The Next Setup We’re Stalking

Barron’s raised the idea that consumer staples (XLP sector) have been the “unloved” corner of the market — which means potential bargains can emerge from names showing relative strength.

Kroger fit the profile.

On the chart, we identified a clear supply zone forming overhead.
We’re not in a trade yet — we’re waiting for price to return to the level.

Depending on how long it takes to reach the zone, our plan is to express it using:

• January 20th puts, or
  
  
• March expiration if the move is slower
  
  

(As of today, Kroger doesn’t have a February chain.)

Patience is part of the process — the level must come to us.

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🎯 Why This Method Works So Well

We don’t take trades because “Barron’s says so.”
We take trades because:

• Supply & demand zones are objective
  
  
• Institutional footprints can be identified
  
  
• Reward-to-risk is clear before entry
  
  
• Emotions are eliminated when rules lead the process
  
  
• Trade ideas become replicable, not random
  
  

Whether you’re trading equities or options, this framework makes the market simpler and cleaner.

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🎥 Watch the Full Breakdown

Below is the full video where Mitch Firestone walks through:

• Rocket Mortgage
  
  
• Instacart
  
  
• Boston Scientific
  
  
• Kroger
  
  
• And how we extract setups from Barron’s each week
  
  

👉 Scroll down and watch the full analysis.

If you enjoy this format, we publish two videos every week:

• Early Week: New Barron’s symbols + fresh setups
  
  

End of Week: Triggered trades, closed trades, and what’s next