As Bella pointed out, last Friday was difficult. There were so many reversals that it was frustrating to trade any stock. Market stocks overreacted to moves in their corresponding futures and levels were not respected. I lost on so many fade trades in which I would buy a stock that quickly retraced to a support level and continued going lower … Read More
Next Support on the Dow @ 0
I wrote a couple of weeks back about the market putting in a bottom. Oh boy I was only off by about 4000 points in the Dow :). Yes I was very wrong but the beauty of it is that as a trader I have learned that the market has to confirm my bias. The price action wasn’t there so … Read More
Bottom in Place?
This last week was out of control. I wish there was a better way to describe it. The volatility seen in the financials, specifically GS and MS was just absolutely silly. I remember I jokingly said on our morning meeting last Monday that GS could go as low as $80 and MS to $10 (they were trading at $140 and … Read More
How to Make that Jump to the Next Level
This past week was a great trading week for me personally. And another example of how I have made a jump to the next level as a trader. I put up bigger than normal numbers on a considerably larger than normal share count. But putting my results aside and the volatility seen in the financial stocks, I traded a lot … Read More
Expectations
So here I’m in the car on my way back to NYC from OBX stuck on some silly traffic. Apparently there was some serious accident near Hampton,VA and that’s causing a 9 mile backup. Rip! We are leaving a day early trying to avoid the tropical storm but seems this drive back is just gonna be messy… OBX was a … Read More
Six Flags Theme Park and Trading
After many years of being away from a theme park I needed a little reminder of how much I like roller coasters and how little I enjoy waiting in long lines. Since I made some good money in the oil bounce and EUR strength this week as outlined in my blog from last weekend I decided to take Friday off … Read More
Is the Dollar Strenght Sustainable?
As I have mentioned in my bio, I have been trading currencies for quite a while. I do not miss getting up at 1am EST to get ready to trade the London session. Yet, these days with the current violent moves in currencies I find it hard not to sacrifice an hour or so of sleep to put a day-swing … Read More
A Sale is a Sale is a Sale!
Yesterday during our morning meeting Steve brought up an interesting point and I couldn’t resist writing a blog post about it. In fact, this is not the first time I have heard about it and it bothers me quite a bit. For some odd reason long-term investors do not believe in taking profits. I can understand not taking profits because … Read More