I don't think this can be answered because it depends on your time scale and the behavior of the price action. A five week moving average works...
In my opinion, every time I've tried to use a subjective entry condition I've had problems making money. Same with a subjective exit. if your...
Decided its best to stay on the sidelines and wait and see what shakes out of this Asian market drop. European Markets fell 3+ percent in...
OK, well that was quick. Sold at 123. Made close to 3.5%. That's plenty enough to avoid holding over the weekend.
Alrighty then! That sure worked! Offset my losses in SBUX and COST. I think rather than lock in a profit on SCO, I'll try to hold for a bit. I...
Stopped out of SBUX and COST. Lost 2% and 3% respectively. I shouldn't have stayed in after the market started going south. Bought some SCO...
Bought sbux at 57.83. Nice pattern on this one.
Sold SO at 46.03 for a loss. Put a trailing stop on SDS.
Bought more SDS again this morning since futures are down. Got in at 20.15. Just enough to hedge my long positions.
Sold it for a scant 11 cents a share profit. Just wanted some assurance the market wasn't going to plunge. Looks like the market is just...
Added some SDS at 20.37 as a hedge.
Boy do I feel stupid! This thread inspired me to search Scottrade one more time to see if they have a bracket order. I just found it. I had...
I usually swing trade 2 to 4 positions. I don't do it full time...I have a day job. I follow a couple dozen stocks, so only a handful meet my...
Same old, same old. As price rises volume is dropping on these, so that's encouraging. Market seems to be turning around some too, so I'm...
Staying the course. Nothing in my charts telling me to exit.
Swing trade daily charts. I do this, and I wish that I had your schedule. When you swing trade daily charts, you need the current day's candle...
This chart makes me real comfortable with COST over the medium term: http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=COST&p=D&yr=0&mn=7&dy=0&id=p03313254572...
Bought COST at 146.19 and SO at 46.56. I think the power companies are the beneficiaries of the low oil prices, which is why they are on a tear....
Wish I hadn't been in the field. Ah well. At least I didn't lose anything.
There are internet based search programs that aren't terribly difficult to code. I used stock fetcher for a while. But after a while, I realized...
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