-206 3400 doubled down on 2 diff stocks. 1 long 1short. i havent been this stupid for a while now... i guess my bad habits are coming back...
Now this here girl aint the prutties one that I ever done did brought to da parrty...but she a do just fine.
finished pretty good, but heck this week for some reason felt challenging. have a great weekend, all. patrick
EOD: +886 Today was weird... seemed difficult for me too. I scratched two good trades because they hesitated too long and I did not want to squander the little profit I had. Also, I missed a good signal (auto trading) on EMD. My chart did not load properly and so no entry... I discovered the missed trade after a significant runup. I wrote my systems so I was wondering why I had no position. I usually just track the systems via the order manager window. If the system status and position say "true" that means they are in sync. I didn't even bother to check the chart page running the EMD systems. Next time I'll be more vigilant. All in all a good week. Week: +5,567
+706 today. DPH gave me about 460, make some in GLW, ELN, and went long out of Rita downgrade on ALL just like i missed yesterday and got 46 cents....... on 100 shares. Im such a pussy some times. Oh and for the week, $2984, more than i made all of last month hah.
+1078, traded some NYSE coal stocks off the open and did pretty well in them. Made a couple good trades in WHR and thats pretty much it. Hardly traded the afternoon at all, found it very choppy.
- 309 All and all I am surprised at the losses and also surprised at the character of the market... 1. I expected a more pronounced move down to close the gap. 2. I expected a strong move up on a failure /reversal and breakout through the opening range high. The (loosing) setups I took may turn out to be profitable ( based on the original trailing stops) but time of day mandated that I tighten the stops. If it doesn't work right away, the chances it's going to work are greatly diminished. I made several technical mistakes today too which required reentry to make matters slightly worse. Lets see what the systems do this afternoon.