general: i definitely have trouble trading the larger gap opening b/c the indicators seem to get out of whack due to gap...middle of the day totally sucked 1. long rocket mkt opens up a lot and all indicators say long...wait for 15m high and buy the break @ 875.25. at 10:20 we had what i thought was a lower volume inside bar and when its low was taken out i exited...market contiued to climb much much higher...clearly a mistake...i was looking to get back in at my bottom trendline, but it never happened. damn. really blew that trade. long @ 875.25 sell @ 876.25 +1.00 day: +1.00 12 days: +32.00 2. short rocket 3:40 s(14.29, 22.31) macd hist -0.56 short on the low break 878.75. mkt reverses on increasing up volume...trend line broken...exit @ 881.00 short @ 878.75 cover @ 881.00 -2.25 day: -1.25 12 days: +29.75 after blowing that first trade i was pretty pissed at myself and had a hard time focusing again...especially as the mkt just kept grinding higher...then late day short rocket that reversed right after entry really topped off a fantastic day. crap. crap. somedays feels like i am close and just miss it and turns into a crappy day.
Couldn't trade in the morning but got in at noon, on the BO after VDU at 12:05. Exit as price hit the away side of channel I drew. Turns out the good exit should've been at 12:13, after volume peaked on 1 min chart and MACD crossed down. +1.00 Week +16.00
Jack Hershey, thnks for the wealth of info you have been providing in this forum. I am trying to use your methods trading nasdaq stocks and was wondering what things would apply. I am not using +/- .4 for nasdaq stocks because i find it rarely gets to be that divergent. Could you give me a better MACD level for nadaq stocks. I am thinking of trying +/- .05. Thnx in advance. jc
I have attached your chart for yesterday. you may want to consider your early exits. The first and scend point 3 of the first trend tell the story. I suggested that unless a flaw shows up, use that as a criteria for staying in. For weeks your exits have not pulled down all the profits because you leave early. From your chart it looks like you do not use the point 1,2,3 thing. I was pushing that with you because you are watching the MACD, Vol ,etc at the time period after point 2. Putting myself in your place it looks like you think trends are very short in duration instead of the four chunks I point out. I am calling them chunks insteads of bits because I want to make your see BIG. Four in a day average. Two or three in the PM and two in the morning. Th H/L for the day comes from at least two trends. So you can count on making more than the H/L for every day in a short time. focus on what is going on after point 2. Look for a flaw in the trend. The only one that will come up is going across the tape on the STOC4,1,3. If it doesn't happen, then watch vloume decrease to tell you the travesrse from point 2 to the up coming point 3 is price fighting the system and trend that is forming. Relax breath deeply. Thie time between point 2 and point 3 is a "realction time vis a vis the new trend. At point 3 you see volume pick up to start the treverse from the right line to the left line. It will hit the left line. Relax. That tells you that the trend is under way. Again as before the volume falls off indicating that the trend is okay as the price heads for the right line. Chunk it for a while. Stay in the trend and just reverse when the traverse to the left peaks and volume falls off. NOTE the volume fall off is during the opposite treverse.!!!! If you do this under your normal level of panic all turns out okay. You are really pulling down the bucks. Today is a sideline day for everyone.it is just centering now to give us a shot at one trade this pm.
Jacks thanks for the comments and suggestions...i will work on what you suggested. Gonna print it out and keep it next to me. I completely agree i am too quick on the trigger...old bad habits die hard.