      If the market is sharply down, look for stocks that are positive,neutral, or only slightly negative in comparison to other companies intheir sectors. If a stock is fighting the trend, it is an incredibly strongindication that the stock is going to move if the market retraces. Thereare two advantages to playing stocks that are fighting the trend. The firstis that there is a high probability that you will profit from the trade.The second is that, if you are already following the trend, adding a trendfighter to your open position puts you in a spread trade. As you know,spread trades help to offset market risk, and in a volatile market, youneed all of the systemic risk mitigants that you can get.