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Harvey’s Day Trading Blog
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A Quickie Before…
…the US stops everything and gets down to celebrating thanksgiving. Not hailing from those parts myself, it’s not something I celebrate. Still, an excuse to not work for a day is always welcome. The markets are closed, so I’ll just…
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Sometimes It Goes Pear-Shaped
Here are a couple of nice trades from Monday to start the week. Well I say nice. The first one went pear-shaped from the off, but redeemed itself shortly after. Here’s the chart: Sometimes everything lines up, the setup looks…
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Funny Old Week
This week has been pretty manic, thanks mainly (but not exclusively) to the pharma stocks. The likes of MYOV, CRSP, and of course supernova KRTX, have seen wild swings. Price increases and decreases in the hundreds of percent have made…
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It’s Not All About KRTX
I said yesterday that we don’t need to rely on outliers like KRTX to make decent profits from day trading. Wednesday proved the point, with this nice little double from NVDA: Like KRTX before it, this was a standard setup…
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A $17,875 Trade
Well I might have missed the action on Monday, but as I’ve talked about before, epic movers often make pretty decent moves the next day too. So I was ready and waiting with my finger on the button in case…
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Missed Opportunities
I’ve not been trading much over the last week. Not by choice, just other things getting in the way. I’ve glanced at the markets in the evenings and it doesn’t look like I’ve been missing an awful lot. That is…
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Yes But How Does That Help?
When I saw (and answered) this question over on Quora, I was reminded of one of the Old Lady Job Justification Hearings. For those not well versed in BBC Radio 4 comedy, the hearings were a recurring sketch in a…
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Meanwhile, At Tesla…
After all last week’s fun with ROKU, it’s easy to forget there are other stocks out there. Like old fave TSLA, for example. On an otherwise quiet day, here’s what that old dog was up to: You never quite know…
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ROKU Results Result In a Right Rocking Result
If you’ve been following along with the blog, you’ll know that ROKU has been the story of the week. It’s already a reliably volatile and tradable stock, and the fact their earnings were out this week made it all the…
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ROKU Update
With ROKU’s results imminent, as I mentioned yesterday, this already regularly active and volatile stock is well worth watching. Here’s what it offered up on Wednesday: The entry here was a bit funky, with an almost-entry a few minutes before…