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Quote from jagmot:

Edit: Long at 65.
Stopped out.

The next long would have been 59, currently up 5 points. Did you miss it?

Edit: I would exit here at 66...
 
About gaps: You always have to watch all 3 indeces. The Nasdaq did close the gap yesterday (also made a nice doublebottom with RSI) and the SPX also closed about 85% of the gap, which is pretty good. A 5 pts gap left, but we could rally up leaving that behind for a few weeks returning to it in October....
The point is that the force to close the gap is not as strong as it seems...

(after all we have a gap at 1320 waiting for 3 months now)
 
Quote from Now is Now:

I have a potential short at 6850 subject to confirmation.

One could still be in the long from 59... Just reaching the full 10 points gain now....
 
Quote from Now is Now:

I have a potential short at 6850 subject to confirmation.

Sold 6625 s/l 6925 BUY 2/3 6325 and adjust s/l.

Got a feeling this one is going to be tough, but that is my confirmed entry point...gotta live with it.
 
Quote from Now is Now:

Sold 6625 s/l 6925 BUY 2/3 6325 and adjust s/l.

Got a feeling this one is going to be tough, but that is my confirmed entry point...gotta live with it.

Knocked out @ 6925.."10" finished for the day.

Of course the irony is that I missed 2 earlier trades that were profiable as I was in the midst of other things. That's the way it goes...we are not robots or slaves to the market.
 
Quote from Now is Now:

Knocked out @ 6925.."10" finished for the day.

What I don't get, how did you get such a bad entry, when you knew beforehand the 68.5 short and you could have put a limit order there?
 
Quote from Pekelo:

What I don't get, how did you get such a bad entry, when you knew beforehand the 68.5 short and you could have put a limit order there?

Ok, all my trades are based on the price performance model that I run. Frequently , the prices are very close. There have been occassions where I got a far better price entry than the "10" price; other times, like today, not so good.

As soon as I took my trade, yep, live...have been for nearly 2 weeks...co-mingled with my other trades, I felt squeemish as the price behaviour was somewhat erratic.

Hoooo noooo:mad:
 
Quote from jagmot:

Short 68.50 stop 71.50

Edit First target hit, trailing stop now on.

2nd target hit, full 10pts.

3rd profitable trade. Again, trailing stop / first target actually hurts results. We will continue to keep this in mind to continue improving results.
 
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