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4/06/09: Trades today: 9:49 FAZ BUY 16.97 * FAZ was extended to the down side on the daily chart, and after a strong 1st move on the 5 min chart FAZ put in a reversal long at 9:45. I bought at 16.97 stop under the pivot (16.57( and tgt 17.77. Exited for a loss. 10:10 AAPL SHORT 114.50 *...

4/06/09: Total P/L + 90.78 7 trades 2 wins 4 losses 1 b/e (of course the 1 b/e, DXD stopped me and reversed right to tgt) I have to work right now. I'll write a summary of each trade later.

Thanks for following John, I agree with you that my bias can "get in the way" of some good set-ups. If you look at my afternoon trades today, I actually switched to a long bias because we couldn't sell off and I took SPY, RIMM long. In regards to my "universe" of stocks: I am only using 1...

3:32 700 RIMM EXIT 64.22 P/L + 561.10

4/06/09: 2:49 700 RIMM BUY 63.40 STOP 63.10 TGT 64.00

2:17 800 SPY EXIT 82.73 P/L -213.64

1000 SPY EXIT 82.57 P/L -205.17

4/06/09: 2:06 800 SPY BUY 82.97 STOP 82.73 TGT 83.47

4/06/09: 1:12 1000 SPY BUY 82.76 STOP 82.56 TGT 83.16

4/06/09: 11:35 1000 RIMM SHORT 61.68 STOP 61.88 TGT 61.28

11:35 800 DXD EXIT 57.85 P/L-6.07

11:14 Moving stop to B/E

4/06/09: 10:59 800 DXD BUY 57.84 STOP 57.59 TGT 58.34

500 AAPL EXIT 113.70 P/L + 384.90

4/06/09: 10:10 500 AAPL SHORT 114.50 STOP 114.90 TGT 113.70

10:04 500 FAZ EXIT 16.57 P/L -215.20

4/06/089: 9: 49 500 FAZ BUY 16.97 STOP 16.57 TGT 17.77

Trade Descriptions from 4/03: 9:33 RIMM SHORT 59.65 * On the daily chart RIMM had 2 strong moves up wed & thurs, then gapped up fri. over $10.00. I like to be agressive on these typeof setups, using the 1 -5 min low to short. I shorted under the 1 min low 59.65, put my stop over the 2nd 1...

Sorry for such a late reply OC, I agree 100% when looking for a narrow range day on friday(like you said). My game plan going into friday was to get some shorts early on stocks that were extended to the upside this week, looking for alittle retracement in them, also the FAZ (bank shorts), due...

Week Ening 4/03/09 Totals: P/L -669.37 21`Trades 6 wins 15 losses YTD: P/L+ 12,178.61 77 wins 83 losses 8 b/e win % 48.2 Ratio: 1.80