…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 have to go out and do something else instead. The sun is due to shine here for the first time in a while, so that’s a bonus. Anyway, here’s a quick trade from Wednesday:
Continue reading “A Quickie Before…”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:
Continue reading “Sometimes It Goes Pear-Shaped”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 for some spectacular opportunities. Making $17,875 profit on one stock is unusual to say the least. And yet it’s also not. Because whilst the profit figure is undeniably on the high side, the way that profit was earned was completely standard.
Continue reading “Funny Old Week”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:
Continue reading “It’s Not All About KRTX”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 KRTX went supernova again. And oh boy, did it…
Continue reading “A $17,875 Trade”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 until I looked at what happened Monday…
Continue reading “Missed Opportunities”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 show called That Mitchell and Webb Sound (which later moved to television in the form of That Mitchell and Webb Look). In the sketches, a panel of old ladies invite people in to tell them about their job, then ask them a series of questions to have them justify it. Their questions poke gentle fun at modern service oriented occupations like wedding planning, pointing out how needless they are. As far as the ladies are concerned, one of the few jobs with any merit is running a little shop, and they frequently steer their subjects towards the idea of opening one.
Why did a Quora question about trading make me think of an old radio sketch show?
Continue reading “Yes But How Does That Help?”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:
Continue reading “Meanwhile, At Tesla…”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 more worth watching. Thursday was the morning after the night before. It was always likely to be profitable, and here’s what happened.
Continue reading “ROKU Results Result In a Right Rocking Result”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:
Continue reading “ROKU Update”