Played a stock with a little too much positive news - lost 65 cents on the day net, 2 winners, 2 losers. Let the bad one get away for about 30 cent more than I should have.
4 fills on about a dozen stocks, 3 winners 1 loser +26 +6 +15 -17 for total of plus 40 cents net. Best exit was GM for minus 17 cents as it is now 80 cents above where I covered.
Only 1 fill on 11 stocks today. Long KSS at 73, offered 2/3 out at 73.50, it traded .49 quite a bit, then there was 100 on the offer at .50, figured that was me, it traded a few thousand shares there, but no fill. Back down to 73.20, I got out of all at 73.25. Ripped right back to the upside. Oh well. +23 cents net. Quite a novelty watching only one position.
Just 3 fills, got out too soon, lost 14cents. Liked aol under $20, just for fun, pretty good bump back up there....back in the black!!
So it finally happened, got 50 cents in the face this morning in IBM, long 88,05, exit 87,60, held my order for about 2 minutes. oh well, it was just trading at 85,50......
$220 today, pretty small.... We're re-focusing on "post opening" plays with our newer traders again (it seems like good strategies are cyclical). This sector trading has been working well in recent weeks. There will be a new article in TASC about it coming up.