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Harvey’s Day Trading Blog
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A Mistake To Avoid
A quick trade to finish up the first week back at the grindstone. Here’s a little short on ZM: The stock was weak from the off. When they fall this far this fast there’s always the question in the back…
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A Tale Of Two Trades
It was the best of times it was the worst of times. Nope, who am I kidding, this isn’t going to work. I’m posting two trades today, and neither represent either the best or the worst of times. But they…
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The Real Work Starts Tomorrow
The first day back is the easiest when you’ve only been averaging one day’s work a week. It’s no different to the rest of the summer. As my niece said to me after her first day back at school this…
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Getting Back In The Saddle
That’s it, summer is over. Back to work! Okay, some of us never really went away. My blog posts may have thinned out to eventually disappear altogether over the holiday period, but I still traded at least one day each…
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Not All Core
Just to prove that it’s not only about the core stocks when trading through the summer downturn, Friday produced a couple of winners that were most definitely not from the core list. First up (though only by a matter of…
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Tesla Ticking Over
While working in summer mode, I’m keeping things ticking over with the odd trade here and there when time, motivation, and Mrs W’s calendar permit. Sometimes that means a few trades in a week, sometimes it means none. Monday offered…
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We Don’t Have To Trade
As I have alluded to in recent posts, and as the time between those posts has illustrated, I trade a lot less during the summer. There are a few reasons why. One reason is that the markets are generally quieter…
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There’s Always Something
Summer or no summer, vacation or no vacation, whatever the day, whatever the weather, whenever the market is open, there’s always something to trade. Something, somewhere, is always making a nice simple, predictable, low-risk, high-probability, tradeable move. Sometimes that’s a…
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So Begins The Summer
It’s that time of year when the activity in the markets begins to wane. When thoughts turn from double-tops to crop tops, from shorts to beach shorts, and from breakouts to summer breaks. Summer is here in the northern hemisphere,…
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Happy (Financial) Independence Day
As a non-American, independence day is not a date that’s burned into my consciousness, beyond being a day I know I won’t be trading because the markets are closed. But it is a day on which I reflect on what…