Opening Orders - 2008

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

  1. i had to do a quick cancel on my dow baskets this morning so unfortunatly i ended up cancelling my opening orders as i had to do a cancel all....

    indications came out negative instead of the positive pre market trade and i had to reverse on a dime...

    so needless to say the timing could not have been worse...

    i had one fill ...pep...+495.00...tltc...

    would have been awesome...even with my currently reduced size...system said:

    23 fills / 21 long / 2 short / 22000 shares / 5000.00 plus...

    at least i covered my dow futures for a profit....
     
    #71     Jan 18, 2008
  2. I was cautious, went in half size. Made $1200. Gotta go watch the traders for a while.


    Don
     
    #72     Jan 22, 2008
  3. Also was cautious & got no fills...looks like it was good
     
    #73     Jan 22, 2008
  4. Had lots of stocks pulled for news, and cut my size in half.

    3 long wins, although 2 unfortunately were on tiny test positions, +183
     
    #74     Jan 22, 2008
  5. blocked some...didn't quite know if it would make a difference or not...

    widened my envelopes to twice their size...

    +/- 1% 1.5% and 2%

    8 fills / 8 longs / + 1179.00

    9500 shares
     
    #75     Jan 22, 2008
  6. +25K playing SUPER SUPER conservative. Could have been a 6 fig day easy.

    But my first goal was to stay employed as a trader today.
     
    #76     Jan 22, 2008
  7. agreed...
     
    #77     Jan 22, 2008
  8. also agree...nice going shreddog
     
    #78     Jan 22, 2008
  9. played it conservative again & got no fills...
    hope everyone had a good day $$$
     
    #79     Jan 23, 2008
  10. Got behind in my morning prep and didn't get any orders in. Most of my roster was blocked on news, and it looks like I wouldn't have gotten filled on the few I had left.
     
    #80     Jan 23, 2008