MACD/Trendline Swing Trader

Discussion in 'Journals' started by retire45, Jan 26, 2008.

  1. RYL.. Will also re-short 32.5 area or SP 1405 area
     
    #151     May 8, 2008
  2. Retire, great performance!. Question...How do you deal with

    gaps in stock prices?, and what time frames do you

    use?..probably a daily, and what else?

    thanks

    cm
     
    #152     May 8, 2008
  3. Cm,

    Mostly Dailies.. Hourlies to set trade triggers.. Gaps? I trade a list of stocks that rarely ever gap and prefer to avoid earnings reports. That's why no Biotechs, next to no techs or Precious Metals stocks. If I look over scan results outside my list (which I shouldn't), I immediately delete and Stocks with large gaps.

    Rashid
     
    #153     May 8, 2008
  4. Re-Short RYL 31
     
    #154     May 8, 2008
  5. does the list ever change or is it always the same?
     
    #155     May 8, 2008
  6. Cm,

    Always the same. From time to time I weed it whenever a stock becomes too erratic.. RYL, for example.. MTH cleaner lately.. as If RYL is getting manipulated lately.

    Rashid..
     
    #156     May 8, 2008
  7. BIDU has a very nice breakdown for a trip to 340, then gap at 320 if that doesn't hold. I don't like trading it as I detest it's behavior. Anything's possible with BIDU in the Morning.
     
    #157     May 8, 2008
  8. A bit messy this morning.. Stopped out of RYL.. The size of the position considering RYL had been down 3 days in a row added up to a likely stop out. An oscillator may be better to trade RYL current behavior..

    Loss in SKF from 105 down to 103.5..

    Long TBSI 49.2

    Still Long HMY, Short VLO.
     
    #158     May 9, 2008
  9. SP Looks like Short overall BUT Hourly going long.. How 1405-1408 is handled will dictate rest of month.. We'll see..
     
    #159     May 9, 2008
  10. Ok Week... Seems the Key to endlessly trading per plan and utilizing the full account is to lose one's mental value attached to say.. $1000. I must in my mind see it as worth less and less as account grows to remove the apprehension (fear?) I've been feeling lately. Percentages, Percentages... all that matter.

    Looking forward to a Cleaner week...
     
    #160     May 9, 2008