Given that this was the last day before Labor Day, I had vowed to myself to go VERY easy unless there was some real action. I had also vowed to myself to stop trading by 11am, cos it would be 100% likely that volume would dry up as people packed up their rucksacks and headed to the mountains for a long weekend.
Had it not been for the bullish intraday breakout at 10am (on the release of positive economic news), I would not have traded today. The moment the news was released, I noticed a significant pick up in time and sales on the large nasdaq issues and went for a handful of what I have found to be the most market sensitive. In effect I ended up scalping a basket of futures sensitive stocks, and made out pretty well.
I was done for August by 10.30am.
Let's hope the trading Gods are kinder to us for the remainder of this year. Everyone have a great long weekend.
Had it not been for the bullish intraday breakout at 10am (on the release of positive economic news), I would not have traded today. The moment the news was released, I noticed a significant pick up in time and sales on the large nasdaq issues and went for a handful of what I have found to be the most market sensitive. In effect I ended up scalping a basket of futures sensitive stocks, and made out pretty well.
I was done for August by 10.30am.
Let's hope the trading Gods are kinder to us for the remainder of this year. Everyone have a great long weekend.