As is so often the case after a holiday, Tuesday proved to be a bountiful session filled with opportunity. It was one of those days where you could jump on board almost anything and ride it for profit. Neither skill nor experience were required to make money on Tuesday. I’ll share three trades here, starting with the least profitable.
Continue reading “Making Hay”Columbus Day
Monday was a slightly slower day on the markets, what with many states being off for the day. But as we know, there’s always something to trade, and even if volumes were down a bit, the markets didn’t disappoint. Here’s what happened on EOG:
Continue reading “Columbus Day”Some Bread and Butter
Over the past few weeks I’ve been guilty of posting the bigger winners of the day. Four-figure wins garner more attention and apparently it’s what people like to see, so I feel mostly justified in favouring them here. But it’s important to remember that the bread and butter of the business is the regular smaller trades that come along day after day. Trades like this one:
Continue reading “Some Bread and Butter”Managing Multiple Trades
Well that was a busy morning. It all kicked off at the same time, leaving me with a couple of trades to manage at once. One of the reasons I only trade the morning session is because I am not blessed with great intelligence or brainpower, so I have to try to use what little I have as best I can. I’m fresher and more alert at the start of the session, so am better able to juggle a couple of trades at once. Here’s the first of two trades I was running concurrently:
Continue reading “Managing Multiple Trades”Downs and Ups
Here are a couple of trades to kick off the brand new week — one in each direction. The first one was old friend ROKU:
Continue reading “Downs and Ups”Trade, 4th October 2019
Here’s a quick TSLA trade to round out the week:
A regular pattern with a clear entry. I didn’t like that MA much, but we play the hand we are dealt sometimes. Everything else was good. I had 229 in mind as a target, so when it first failed to reach it I was out with just over a grand in the bank. As it happens, the price did eventually reach there, but had I waited for that to happen I would have been shaken out for a much smaller win beforehand. Knowing TSLA, it was better to take the money and run.
A Big Loss
As regular readers and readers of my books know, I like to keep my losses small. Really small. A few cents maximum. If a trade doesn’t work out, I’m outta there sharpish. Which is why today’s losing trade was a bit painful, because it went further than a few cents against me. It was all my fault.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. First, here’s what happened with AMD:
Continue reading “A Big Loss”Going Old School
To make a change from posting so many NASDAQ tech stocks, here are a couple of old school financial ones traded on the NYSE. First off, WFC:
Continue reading “Going Old School”A TSLA Short Goes Long
Just one trade to post today, because I’m in a hurry and because it’s a good’un. Here’s Tesla (again):
Core Confidence
The other day I mentioned that I had missed an early entry on a trade. It was a bad day and that was a bad start. For my first trade today I took the earlier entry, and there was a good reason for it. Here’s MU:
Continue reading “Core Confidence”