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Harvey’s Day Trading Blog
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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…
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Announcing Something New
Anyone following my Instagram feed will have seen a little post that was out of the ordinary on Friday. It looked like this: Want to know why, for the first time, I didn’t post a chart? Read on — for…
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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…
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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…
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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: This was definitely a messy old setup, but ROKU is gonna ROKU and we know…
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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…
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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…
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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: All fairly standard stuff here. There was a little hesitation at the previous…
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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): The start of the session, at first glance, looked anything but promising, with the price whipping back and forth over the…
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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…