Mike's Swing Trading Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Trend Fader, Apr 10, 2005.

  1. Dumped EFD.. dont like the way stock is trading. Took a minimal loss on it.

    Out of UGI... took a small gain on it. Just churning my account for now.. nothing really making money.
     
    #41     Apr 13, 2005
  2. Dumped everything.. dont like the market.
     
    #42     Apr 13, 2005
  3. My account is down a little for the week. Market is doing real bad... not the time to be heavily long.
     
    #43     Apr 13, 2005
  4. Short 300 SGR @ 19.07
     
    #44     Apr 13, 2005
  5. Dumped SGR for tiny profit. Market is super weak.

    Now is a good time to tread very lightly. I am in cash as of this moment.
     
    #45     Apr 14, 2005
  6. Basically... my strategy is working. At times like these when anyone going long is getting killed.. I walk away with pretty much breakeven results. I took a very small loss because I was protecting my capital and recognized the weakness in the broader markets.

    The only money to be made is shorting right now.. however its just not something that every made me real $. I do put occasional shorts for quick swing trades.. but the fact that I cant scale into the position.. is the problem. Pyramiding into a short position as the market is tanking is almost suicidal because a snap back reversal will easily wipe you out.


    --MIKE
     
    #46     Apr 14, 2005
  7. short 100 kbh @ 116
     
    #47     Apr 14, 2005
  8. Short 150 MON.. @ 58.01
     
    #48     Apr 14, 2005
  9. So once you go short you never add to your position? You can scale into your shorts in a similar fashion to your longs. As they say, "Wait for the bounce."

    P.S. It's nice to see someone else taking losses. So how much of a loss are looking at here?

    P.P.S. I'm not being funny.
     
    #49     Apr 14, 2005

  10. On page #2 i mention as to why I dont pyramid into shorts. It is a very dangerous practice.. and will only work in a full fledged bear market. Market corrections are short and extremely volatile.. its not a time to get heavy into a position.

    Markets do not behave the same going up as they go down. Look at charts of DRL, IBM .. they are good examples. When pyramiding into a short the percentages are against you and to make it work you will have to increase much more size as you pyramid

    Goodpunk,,, just to let you know.. i never look at intraday charts for swing trading they are irrelevant.

    I am down slightly.. around the $500 amount the past few days. That is an insignificant amount for me. On good weeks i make about 3-5k. An avg loss for the week is about $1k. I have been doing this for many years.. so i dont even flinch taking losses.


    --MIKE
     
    #50     Apr 14, 2005