Let's Take a Test Drive by Pay$ense
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STOPPED
Loss: $75
Total Loss: $275
On a possible reward of $2,250.
I do not have all the tools most day-traders have, but I am thinking this thing could have gone either way.
Now we can expect that this low-volume action will reverse at 874 to eventually reach the 854.50 UT.
paysense
PS Experience did not lend itself to chiding me into thinking this is my style of trading!
Loss: $75
Total Loss: $275
On a possible reward of $2,250.
I do not have all the tools most day-traders have, but I am thinking this thing could have gone either way.
Now we can expect that this low-volume action will reverse at 874 to eventually reach the 854.50 UT.
paysense
PS Experience did not lend itself to chiding me into thinking this is my style of trading!
This effort has left me spent for the day. But I reserve the right to jump in at any time. I toggled over to my other account that is doing fine. I STO 2NQ at 1188 w/ a 5 point stop. This actually (temporarily) increased my bearish exposure on my longer-term positions.
They are now shift back to a slight bullish bias. It is nice to see that the market is not totally falling apart and that some buyers have entered in. But I won't go more bullish until we can further take out overhead support.
Three out of five covered call positions I opened this last week were profitable and they are all now closed.
Most of you like this volatility and it makes me work harder.
I keep telling myself that at least 2008 has been quite an up year when just not losing is huge. Maybe food will help. C-ya
They are now shift back to a slight bullish bias. It is nice to see that the market is not totally falling apart and that some buyers have entered in. But I won't go more bullish until we can further take out overhead support.
Three out of five covered call positions I opened this last week were profitable and they are all now closed.
Most of you like this volatility and it makes me work harder.
I keep telling myself that at least 2008 has been quite an up year when just not losing is huge. Maybe food will help. C-ya
It is SO hard to gauge this market with the Fed meeting and options expiring on Friday.
Now the ES is at the armpit of a head-and-shoulders pattern. IF we get a bounce up to form a right shoulder (reverses lower and does not make a new high) perhaps with traders coming back from lunch we will see the aforementioned tank into the close to the 854 level.
I did find an excellent CC play with AKS. I will wait however and see how late-trade plays out, since better pricing is possible.
pay$
Edit: gonna miss this ES play - have a meeting to go to. Let me know how it goes.
Now the ES is at the armpit of a head-and-shoulders pattern. IF we get a bounce up to form a right shoulder (reverses lower and does not make a new high) perhaps with traders coming back from lunch we will see the aforementioned tank into the close to the 854 level.
I did find an excellent CC play with AKS. I will wait however and see how late-trade plays out, since better pricing is possible.
pay$
Edit: gonna miss this ES play - have a meeting to go to. Let me know how it goes.
Well what I missed by going to a meeting, leaves me no worse for wear.
What intra-day bias do you have? it seems we never formed a shoulder and in fact - immediately moved sharply lower (a bit) only to head-fake right back up.
Now we can see that the overall daily trend is downward with rather large swings up and down.
With the last 1.5 hours to go, I don't think anyone knows where we will end up. If we went lower - it'd be a better entry for AKS covered call trade. But since these are in fact a bit <i>hedged</i> by the short option - I think I will just go for it...soon.
Volume is glaringly absent to day and well, Caroline Kennedy if vying for Hillary's senate seat, FWIW (lol).
What intra-day bias do you have? it seems we never formed a shoulder and in fact - immediately moved sharply lower (a bit) only to head-fake right back up.
Now we can see that the overall daily trend is downward with rather large swings up and down.
With the last 1.5 hours to go, I don't think anyone knows where we will end up. If we went lower - it'd be a better entry for AKS covered call trade. But since these are in fact a bit <i>hedged</i> by the short option - I think I will just go for it...soon.
Volume is glaringly absent to day and well, Caroline Kennedy if vying for Hillary's senate seat, FWIW (lol).