Harvey’s Day Trading Blog
Trades
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Trades, Friday 1st Feb 2018
A couple of quick ones. First off, the bottom of a long move down. SNE dropped off a cliff right from the open. It can be tempting when you see a precipitous fall like this to jump in for the…
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Trades, Thursday 31st January 2019
I briefly touched on account size in yesterday’s trades post, pointing out that trading a cheap stock can mean large profits even for a relatively small trading account. Here’s a trade at the other end of the spectrum — CHTR…
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Trades, Wednesday 30th January 2019
Here’s one of those trades where it was a no-brainer to go for the slightly earlier entry. Even a more conservative later entry would have netted a nice profit. As it was, the earlier entry made for well over a…
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Trades, Tuesday 29th January 2019
A couple of small trades from Tuesday. First up, GLW. Not much to say, quick in and out for a couple of hundred dollars. And there was PCG. A textbook setup for a very easy $500 profit. Yes, there was…
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Trades, Monday 28th January 2019
MU brought home the bacon again. This was an earlier entry as the signal was so clear and it met my early entry criteria. Yes, the stock moved further south, but I don’t care about picking tops and bottoms —…
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Trades, Friday 25th January 2019
Sometimes a trade exit isn’t so much about a specific signal showing up, or a specific target being hit. Rather it can be a lack of either of those things. When you get to know how stocks behave, how patterns…
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Trades, Thursday 24th January 2019
Yesterday I wrote a post (7 Reasons Why You Don’t Want My Daily Stock Picks) in which I mentioned that having a good list of reliable core stocks can take some of the pressure off building a decent watch list…
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Trades, Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Sometimes you get to take more or less the exact same trade on multiple stocks at the same time. Obviously this is more likely to happen with stocks that are in the same sector. A nice example of this on…
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Trades, Tuesday 22nd January 2019
No trades on Monday with the holiday, so here are three for Tuesday. As is sometimes the case after a long weekend, the market was a bit slow to get going. That meant I ended up taking some trades much…
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Trades, Friday 18th January 2019
This doesn’t happen every time, but it happens often enough that I’d call it a pattern: after a difficult day with not much around, there is often a great day with a ton of easy trades. It’s like energy is…