Opening Orders - 2008

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Don Bright, Jan 3, 2008.

  1. could not route to NYSE via IB this morning (OPG) :(
     
    #1051     Aug 27, 2008
  2. 4 fills, 3 shorts, 1 long, all winners. +0.03 average.
     
    #1052     Aug 28, 2008
  3. 4 fills, 3 longs, 1 short, 3 winners, 1 flat. +0.04 average.
     
    #1053     Aug 29, 2008
  4. 11 fills, 5 winners, 6 loser, 10 shorts, 1 long.
    Would have been one of my best day but my program failed to send the take profits so I had to unload all that manually and finished at a loss. -0.02 average.
     
    #1054     Sep 2, 2008
  5. (Back in the office today).....

    Geez.... 15 fills, up about $1100. Then.....(you guys will love this)... I repeated a stupid rookie mistake.

    I didn't scroll down on my position window far enough to see WMT....LOL.

    My program sold the stock at 60.12, and automically bought back half at 60.06...great, but I didn't see that I still had short stock...covered up about 50 cents.....damn...anyway still up about $500.....

    Don
     
    #1055     Sep 2, 2008
  6. Today I had some fills finally, I widened my parameters to .5 because I didn't want to get filled at value by mistake.

    So I got GE at 28.75, PFE 19.44 and KO 52.94 all short. I was up .40 in KO instantly, which I have noticed is how these seem to work when they work best. I saw that PFE and GE were hovering at my entry which is what seems to turn into losers. So 10 seconds after entry I closed these, somehow I got long KO right after covering at 52.55, so in a small panic I closed that instantly and low and behold I exited at 52.65 lol and made another dime. I sure would like to have this automated but I will wait.

    If anyone is able, can you let me know if my fills seemed to be with specialist print? So far I have been getting these fills using MB Trading, but not positive every day about this tho.

    Thanks for the help the folks helping me with emails and private messages.
     
    #1056     Sep 2, 2008
  7. Those opening prices match my NYsE opening prices.


    Don
     
    #1057     Sep 2, 2008
  8. Wow, from 15 fills yesterday to only 1 today. Anyway, MRK +22 cents....not bad...all on auto with price improvement.


    Don
     
    #1058     Sep 3, 2008
  9. 3 fills, 2 short winners, 1 long loser. +0.08 average
     
    #1059     Sep 3, 2008
  10. Filled short PFE at 19.27 at 9.30.31am and exited 19.27 at 9.31.14 because it didn't move in my favor. Yes it did move down lower a few minutes later but I think that would've been another trade, not sure, need more experience.
     
    #1060     Sep 3, 2008