Things looked like they might get crazy after the FOMC meeting but there was just several âalmostsâ
I did manage to get a good trade due to a call out from the chat. Otherwise it was business as usual and a rather slow day. I spent some time getting caught up and worked on my signals. Wrist still giving me a very hard time after I did some typing so I will probably keep it light for a while.
I made a mistake with the entry of RNOW and so I made myself do some jumping jacks which is the punishment I dish out for my sons. I guess if its good enough for them when they screw up its good enough for me.
Good day despite having a trade that I made near the open that didnât work out.
Day started out well in what I thought was two good trades. One of them turned out to an error in reading the signal so its back to writing up some code. Otherwise it was one good trade after another even though I didnât get a large one and had to take small gains with each. By the end of the day I made up for the mistake and was even able to gain some ground.
ATPG gap up after B9 + 200
MYGN error trade (gap up after b9) â 127 I thought that perhaps I was in error getting out at the price I did but as it turned out I donât think I could have done much better with this trade and overall I would have had to increase my risk in a trade that I should not be in.
JOBS B9 + 143 This one signaled a short fade much below my actual entry point. This stock was called out in the chat room. Traded it into the close as it was way above the B9 signal level. Closed it out into the last seconds of the day.
JOE was a long fade called out in the chat. + 126 It never really was able to regain itself after the dump it took and closed out before target and it didnt cost me any gains doing so.
PWRD B9 + 220 Best trade of the day and the fastest also. Sold it near the top of the day and covered it right above the 30 mark.
today is my first day with my Dragon NaturallySpeaking speech to text in an attempt to lighten up the amount of typing I do. So if anything doesnât look right thatâs why.
today started out with a short of Yahoo after it gapped up and failed to move higher. It had the textbook gap and crap pattern and I let the short ride for quite a while. The nice thing about having multiple positive days is the confidence built up allowing trades to reach for greater potential with relative more ease.
The next trade of the day was LDK which was a multiple overbought 4bar that I was able to get a large piece of the move. He came within pennies of signaling a B9 signal and in that area is when I started to add some size. I scalped some near the top of the move and then let the rest ride down for a bigger move. I covered right around 13 a share.
MBI was my only qualified B9 signal today. It was first called out in chat with somebody asking what the company was. Coincidentally I just happen to know off the top of my head that it was a bank because I knew someone in Singapore who worked at the bank quite a few years ago. While I let them know that it was a bank employed upon a chart right away but when I finally did pull it up as it was in signal by trade station I entered into a short position but a little bit late and not at the best price. Then as if to almost slap me in the face for not shorting sooner it moved higher and I shorted more. MBI was able to get some wind under its wings and really move higher and enough so where I wasnât feeling very comfortable being short anymore. Had I been sooner and shorted earlier at a higher price I would have covered and then re-shorted which wouldâve turned this into most likely my best trade of the day. As it turns out it wasnât the best trade of the day but it was still pretty good.
My last trade of the day was AGO which was entirely in after-hours trading. Into the close I had a B9 signal and so I offered it at 22.18 which was above the high of the day. My offer was listed about 30 seconds after the close and then I immediately put a bid in for 21.67 which was the full target for this trade. Less than 20 minutes later my bid was hit and I was out which went quickly as I was watching the global price skyrocket through the roof. A great way to end the day.
Just a couple of trades today and one is a swing hold
PIP was on fire today. I shorted it more than just a few times today. I should have done better but more than once IB ran out of shares so I exited winning trades. After that started to happen I kept my size smaller than it was even before I couldnât get shares. I been talking to Broad St. Trading and looking at making a move as they once again had shares to short with another stock that IB ran out. The more I am finding out about this firm the more I like. Still learning more about Broad St. and will report what I find and if I make the change over from retail to prop trading. I am currently trying to figure out how often Broad St. has shares when IB doesnât and how much more money I would make in making a change. As someone who doesnât use a lot of leverage the negatives have always outweighed the advantages for me in going prop but that may have changed.
PIP was up over 45% at one point and made some large fast moves that I was able to make some trades with. IB lack of shorts cost me but this stock was not one that I wanted to get to crazy with as many shorts are probably licking a lot of wounds around the time that I write this.
PIP back to back 4bar + 509
I am also shorting COCO 4 and 5 puts in Nov and December. This is both for my trading account and my IRA. I will be adding to this trade as we move into the earnings that is coming up shortly (in about 2 weeks).
a very busy day with about 25,000 shares traded. today started out with PH that had a big gap up while the spoos gap lower today. once pH turned lowerI started selling any strength. This included trading it in premarket action. The stock had the classic an almost perfect gap and crap set up.
The next stock that I traded via options was Apple. After gapping lower in moving higher I felt that it would run into resistance at the moving average on the 10 minute chart. Once it reached that point I started buying puts in the liquidity was good enough that I was able to buy and sell back and forth with the movement of the stock. Regardless that it was a very profitable trade I was really happy with the amount of gains that could be made while at the same time having such a strong limit on risk. I traded Apple many times today.
ERY gave a dual 10 minute overbought signal and I started trading/scalping it for several hours.
NTSP was an IPO that I traded long due to the extremely wide spread in the highly choppy action. As a result I basically just put a bid out and immediately put an offer slightly higher and went back and forth.
MCP was the last trade of the day and if I didnât run out of time my gains wouldâve been much better. I moved my bids up to cover the short due to less then five minutes to go in trading only to watch the price continually fall down below.
PIP discretionary trade that closed out due to not having a valid signal
SKX dual 10 minute overbought signal
i also added to my COCO long and will continue to add on weakness
Expensive, I spent north of $30 today on commissions trading them and that was about 50/50 adding and taking away liquidity. Even so IB was kind enough to put most of the liquidity to the CBOE where I believe I do not get a deal on adding and really get hit over the head with order changes which I did a lot of.
IB sounds so great to trade options with and maybe for so it is but for me I don't consider it thheir strong suit. I would rather trade options with tradestation if its just intraday (I use tradestation for charting and scanning and some very limited amount of trading).
I am currently looking at a prop firm that has better rates for stocks but not yet sure about options (it would be nice if going to a prop firm as far as commissions go didn't feel like buying a used car)
bottom line is that options cost me at least twice the amount as it would have cost trading the stock itself but the price of the stock and the type of trading I was doing at that price level led me ovver to the option pit
