Visa

Buying stocks prior to earnings is gambling. Follow the herd after earnings, IMHO. V fell a long way recently and has room to climb some more.
 
Ended up buying it right before the close at $48.9 and sold it in extended hours for $52.5. 9% move is good enough for me; didn't want to get stuck with it today on a pullback.
 
Got in at the open at $52.00. Was waiting for it to hit $54.00. Put $0.80 trailing stop. The motherf###ing thing was almost at the target but then turned around, dropped the whole $0.80 and stopped me out!!! I was slow with the trigger the second time around - could've picked it up even lower than the first time. Oh well, got in at $50.30. Put a stop at the entry price. The price went up $0.40 and dropped again below the stop. Poop. I finally gave up and moved on to something else. Sure enough next thing I see V drops a whole dollar in 2 minutes. :eek: If I could day trade this would be an awesome stock to play. Alas I trade a small account (under $25K) and used up all my allowed day trades on this crap.
 
I read some good stuff by an independent research firm before the close yesterday so figured I'd jump in just in case there was a pop, and there was. Wish I held it; it's up near it's high now near $54.

What platform are you using to trade that only allows x-number of day trades? I use etrade: it's simple, instructional, and great for all trading (day, extended, global, etc).
 
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What platform are you using to trade that only allows x-number of day trades? I use etrade: it's simple, instructional, and great for all trading (day, extended, global, etc).

I use IB. But it's not the platform, it's the law - to day trade you must have at least $25K in your account. With less you are limited to 4 day trades in 5 business days. So I try to make mine count.
 
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