CL Redux

Quote from BCE:

Larry Williams once said at a seminar I attended, that the high or low of the day frequently occurs in the first hour. I thought that was a great observation. If you can find that and get on the right side of it and then let it go you'll do exceedingly well.
Just wanted to say that I'm not saying it's easy to do this. It's just an observation of things to look for and include in your decisions.

And longer holds usually do yield bigger profits, which Larry Williams also said and most of us already know. I remember during the internet bubble run up Laszlo Birinyi said on CNBC one day that he had made a lot of money trading CMGI, the poster child of internet bubble stocks. But he said he would have made even more money if he had just bought it and held it.

This was true of a lot of internet stocks. I believe it was 1999 that I created a watch list of 20 stocks that I though would do well for the year. This was on the first trading day. And I didn't do any trades on them in the watch list all year, although I did with my actual money in my real account. And at the end of the year 19 out of 20 had gone up and the average was amazing. They went up 268% I believe it was. Wished I had just bought them at the beginning of the year and gone on vacation. :) This was 20 stocks not just 2 or 3. Also CL a few years ago had the selloff from 142 down to 32 it was wasn't it?

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en...3104l5674l0l9923l8l8l0l0l0l0l139l1056l0.8l8l0
 
Of course another reality is CL is quite skilled at retracing moves. There's just a balance maybe in knowing when to take profits. I was really happy today to see V take that 250 tick profit. And I rarely let that big of a profit build up. But I can think of other times when V let a 150 tick profit disappear and he was down 60 ticks after that. And I have let smaller profits of like 40-60 ticks disappear too although I usually take them. It's just all of those decisions we make on when to enter and exit.
 
So I was taking some time off and decided maybe do some trading today, being jobs and all. What a POS, can't even find a valid setup to fit my rules on the 5-min chart, resorted to some 1-min scalping.

Good luck day traders

:eek:
 
Quote from NoDoji:

So I was taking some time off and decided maybe do some trading today, being jobs and all. What a POS, can't even find a valid setup to fit my rules on the 5-min chart, resorted to some 1-min scalping.

Good luck day traders

:eek:
Me too. :) Just a lot of in and out for peanuts. Earlier it seemed like it wanted to make a run up through 100 but obviously there's a lot of resistance @99.95 to 100. And then just now you could see it weakening. Oh, well. Should have stayed in bed. :)
 
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