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    Short Term Trading w/ Gaps

    Agree. I day trade many stocks. Gaps are great opportunities but also high risk. Here are a list stocks statisfying my definition of good gaps during last 20 trading days. 1. gap = low - previous_high; 2. gap is at least half of the 20 day's moving average of trading range. 3. close is...
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    statistically random pick beats index performance ?

    I did some interesting statistics analysis. The median percentage change of all 65 dow members is 16.06%. DAL is the worst down 52.94%. TXU is the best up 110.85%. During the same period dow is up only 4.01%. If you cannot beat the median percentage change 16.06% trading dow member stocks, you...
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    Mike's Swing Trading Journal

    I am here because I want to learn someone else's trading strategy. I did a lot of back-testing for various strategies. I may post some of stats for certain strategies, breaking down to year, month, even days. For example, if you prefer to buy breakout on heavy volume as Mike did here (am I...
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    Black Monday ??

    1/17/2003. A complete list of such periods from 1997: 10/23/1997 08/27/1998 01/12/1999 08/26/1999 04/12/2000 08/28/2001 09/19/2001 06/19/2002 07/08/2002 07/18/2002 08/01/2002 01/17/2003 04/13/2004
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    Mike's Swing Trading Journal

    Insurance/Accident/Health group seems in trouble. Many stocks like CNC MOH AGP and WC were down a lot on heavy volume on 4/14. Looks like better to wait for more a few days. my 2c
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    Mike's Swing Trading Journal

    I dumped everything in the moring. No long/short position.
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    Mike's Swing Trading Journal

    Looks a nice pick. CLE is similar. TIF and CLE are two of the best in their sector.
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    Mike's Swing Trading Journal

    Thanks for telling me your methods. I rank stock fundamentals based on s&p historical financial data (probably one month old), it may not be up to date. Rating is simply like this. For example, the stock having the best eps gets 1.0, the worst gets 0.0, others get a relative number between...
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    Mike's Swing Trading Journal

    I believe swing trade very profitable and low risk. Backtesting of buying weekly high breakout on heavy vol shows great on STTS and GKIS. Although their average fundamental ranking on my list are far below the average among 5000 stocks I am watching, their patterns are good to go long. Can...
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