Spydertrader's Jack Hershey Equities Trading Journal III

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Thanks rickylc. So you usually do not take partial profits and willing to take a loss even in nice profit and you rather close all at EOD on the same day.

Yeah, I meant Monday not Saturday.

Inin shall look nice as a long. Good luck and hope you make plenty of $


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This trade is a bit of an experiment in trading the FTT for me using a stock I have traded several times and have relative confidence in. I have not taken profits yet.

In retrospect, the most profitable trade management would have been to close the position EOD Friday (my usual mode of operation) and re-enter yesterday when price approached my original entry. I'm assuming that is the date you are referring to as 20/1/07 was Saturday.

I added on Monday because it appeared to be the formation of a pt.3. The little selloff yesterday morning caught me a bit by surprise, but the price turned before my original signal point of 18.69 and showed rapid improvement thereafter. As I had already established a full position in this stock, I didn't add any additional shares on the morning dip.

Close yesterday was relatively strong so I'm looking for continued price and volume improvement today.
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Thanks rickylc. So you usually do not take partial profits and willing to take a loss even in nice profit and you rather close all at EOD on the same day.

Yeah, I meant Monday not Saturday.

Inin shall look nice as a long. Good luck and hope you make plenty of $
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No, not at all, I will take partial profits and do so regularly, this was a smallish position to begin with, so taking partial profits wouldn't have made a big difference. As I mentioned in my earlier post, this trade is a bit of an experiment so I started out with a small position.

In my normal trading, if I should make 5% on a trade in one day, I will close the position @ EOD and see if it is worth re-entering in the morning. protecting profits already in the bag has been the name of the game for me up until now.

This is a different approach I'm trying, trading off the FTT and building a position earlier, adding as the trade develops over several days. We'll see how it works.

Thanks for your good wishes

rick
 
Anyone else using the wealth-lab website (not WLD) notice that it hasnt updated with Jan. 23 info, even at 9am wednesday morning right now.
 
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Anyone else using the wealth-lab website (not WLD) notice that it hasnt updated with Jan. 23 info, even at 9am wednesday morning right now.
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Yes, I noticed that too, even in to this morning it was not updated. However just tried it now and it has updated.
 
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No, not at all, I will take partial profits and do so regularly, this was a smallish position to begin with, so taking partial profits wouldn't have made a big difference. As I mentioned in my earlier post, this trade is a bit of an experiment so I started out with a small position.

In my normal trading, if I should make 5% on a trade in one day, I will close the position @ EOD and see if it is worth re-entering in the morning. protecting profits already in the bag has been the name of the game for me up until now.

This is a different approach I'm trying, trading off the FTT and building a position earlier, adding as the trade develops over several days. We'll see how it works.

Thanks for your good wishes

rick
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The ININ saga continues, this has to be one of the longer trades I've run :)

But the planets may finally be lining up for ININ to take off. It is in Dry-up for the first time since December and a major broker started coverage this evening at a buy (Susquehanna). I usually could care less what analysts think, but if it gives ININ a pop out of DU, I'll be happy!

rick
 
Wednesday 24 Jan 2007 was like shooting fish in a barrel. I had held GIGM and ANGN from the day before, i.e. Tuesday. GIGM was purchased following the rules. ANGN, while a member of my universe, was not on the watchlist yesterday, although I keep an eye on every universe member. I purchased ANGN as a result of watching price/volume activity on my entire universe. ANGN was up there on top so I investigated it. The daily is a thing of beauty. While the risk was larger than should be taken as it had already run up for a couple of days, when I saw it breaking highs within 30 minutes yesterday, I couldn't resist and decided to get in.

More to write later on today's purchases. The two above have completely surpassed any expectations I may have had for the week for my portfolio's performance.
 
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The ININ saga continues, this has to be one of the longer trades I've run :)

But the planets may finally be lining up for ININ to take off. It is in Dry-up for the first time since December and a major broker started coverage this evening at a buy (Susquehanna). I usually could care less what analysts think, but if it gives ININ a pop out of DU, I'll be happy!

rick
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Right there with you. Bought it friday near EOD. BRING ON THE VOLUME!
 
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ANGN, while a member of my universe, was not on the watchlist yesterday, although I keep an eye on every universe member. I purchased ANGN as a result of watching price/volume activity on my entire universe. ANGN was up there on top so I investigated it. The daily is a thing of beauty. While the risk was larger than should be taken as it had already run up for a couple of days, when I saw it breaking highs within 30 minutes yesterday, I couldn't resist and decided to get in.
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Thanks for bringing ANGN to my attention. Its average volume is less than 200K and has a low float but other than that it is a star performer:

<img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=1338253>

One to watch for sure.
 

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