I woke up to a dream today and it was the market! If you are a short-term trader then it is time to start brown bagging your lunch if you haven’t already. Today’s final 80 minutes of trading provided as much opportunity as you see in an entire trading day. This followed the meltdown we saw yesterday in the final … Read More
Reading the Tape In Multiple Time Frames
I was trading V today for the third consecutive day. My initial bias was short based on the weakness on the tape I had seen during the prior two days. During yesterday’s two point pop in the SPYs I found it to be very telling That V barely bounced. So I came in today ready to get short again. The … Read More
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You Don’t See That Every Day: 6 Minutes of Insanity
At around 2:30PM the SPYs were trading down to 113.60 from 117. It seemed like it was a good place to start looking for a bounce. I was keying in on the 113.10 level from March 5th as a potential dream price to get long. I got stopped out below 113 a few minutes later. At 2:42 I decided to … Read More
This Seems Familiar
Back in late January FCX sold off from 90 in a hurry. I started to look for an oversold bounce around 72. That didn’t work so well as it traded down another six points. I remember Gman and Joe P looking for a bounce in X a bunch of times because it had sold off from 65 to 53 and … Read More
This Trade Has Been Eliminated
This morning I mentioned to our traders that AKAM was in unchartered territory. The next long term resistance level was around $40. I also said the gap up was fairly large so I offered that it might take a few days to get to the 40 level. Wrong!! AKAM delivers content over the internet. The explosion of mobile broadband is … Read More
NASDAQ OMX/GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER
I have no idea which is worse the manipulation that I have observed in DNDN the past few years or the way the NASDAQ and SEC handles the manipulation. Last year DNDN was pushed intraday from 24 to 7 and the NASDQ decided to halt. There was no news and no prosecutions. It re-opened after the halt at 25. There … Read More
Proper Preparation
Every morning before the market opens I review the list of my top trading ideas. Recently, they have mainly been long ideas as the market is a raging bull. But I’m always armed with a few shorts in case the market decides to come in. One of the great pluses of being a short term trader is that you can … Read More