Spydertrader's Jack Hershey Equities Journal II

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  1. Sold half of my position on KNDL and will hold the rest. My first profitable Hershey trade... but I am still in the red because of all the goofy things I did learning this stuff. If the market extends up, things will be good.
     
    #271     Nov 17, 2005
  2. Stopped out on the TIE signal this morning when price hit my 2% threshold. I only had 100 shares, but banked a loss on the trade of -$110.00 USD.

    - Spydertrader
     
    #272     Nov 17, 2005
  3. gooch87

    gooch87

    Congrats martys
     
    #273     Nov 17, 2005
  4. bdolnik

    bdolnik

    That 2% stop has been killing me lately so I tried something different with TIE. I set a .40 tailing stop. Stopped out real quick but with a small profit.

    I'm also in RATE right now with the same strategy.
     
    #274     Nov 17, 2005
  5. Spyder,

    I took this trade at 857am CST and at an entry price of 54.04 and so far, fingers crossed , have not been stopped out.

    DS
     
    #275     Nov 17, 2005
  6. fwiw, here is my trading page for TIE on 11-17 at 948 am CST
    DS
     
    #276     Nov 17, 2005
  7. I am still holding it. I don't like the entry at 54.35. Quickly melt away my KNDL profits.

    But usually after an emotional opening. MM will sell the stock at around 10'o clock reversal. I think next time when a stock gap up and extended way outside the Bollinger Band. I am gonna try to buy at 10:20-10:30-ish (after some correction). 60% of the time it will reverse back the other way. I don't know if this is gonna work or I am gonna miss a lot of trades.
     
    #277     Nov 17, 2005
  8. Excellent trade martys. Keep up the great work.

    Congrats on the profitable trade. It now appears as 2% was way too tight a margin for this volatile stock. Interesting methodology with respect to your trailing stop. How did you arrive at the .40 number?

    I hope the RATE trade works out for you as well.

    - Spydertrader
     
    #278     Nov 17, 2005
  9. bdolnik

    bdolnik

    Ummm... I made a mistake :) I had wanted to set the trailing stop at 2%.
     
    #279     Nov 17, 2005
  10. Sold half of my position in NTRI because it feels good. (Decrease my overall market exposure)
     
    #280     Nov 17, 2005
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