i dodged a bullet today. i had a 600 share overnight GS lot, and their earnings blew chunks. luckily, all the bad news was already priced in.
LOL, that is why I dont hold anything overnight, just go home flat every night and you sleep better. Sammy, just subscribe to all the news feeds, I have DJ news, PR newswire, thefly, comtex, and few stragler feeds. but DJ is by far the best for what I use it for. I dont pay for them so I just subscribe to everything I can. I think I might pay 50 bux a month for my open book feed, my broker picks up the rest. As far as today goes, its a slow day. Im up about 800 so far and another 250 on liquidity. Im calling it quits soon to go lounge by the pool for awhile but I will post my blotter when I am done.
after a couple of negative days, and this morning looking bleak for me 11:00 rolled around and things took a turn for the better. let's see what will happen this afternoon. mnx
speaking of holding overnight, back in 2000 I was holding some stock overnight (I cant for the life of me remember what is was). But is was a dotcom that had been flying high. when I awoke that morning I was holding 2k shares of it and it was down 16 points when is opened for premarket on bad earnings. I got smoked, plain ol' smoked, grease canned the cornholio. That is the last time I ever held overnight and have not done so since. If I want to hold a stock overnight I buy them in my IRA, the trading account is a seperate animal and I treat it as such now. Lessons learned in this game always cost you money but the funny and good thing is you ALWAYS remember, cuz the money hits you in the eyes.
Im taking off for the rest of the day. Here is where I stand as of today, plus another 500 or so on WBR liquidity. volume is really slowing on that one, today was probably the last day to play it this way. Im taking off tomorrow so no trading for me but you guys have fun making some more money.
Here is my open P+L for June so far. With my top and bottom positions graphed. It isn't as exciting as scalping blocks but it works for me. . Glad to see this thread is back.....sorry for joining the party late
A little too much today. This distracted from my trading as I dug out of holes doing this today. 33 contracts due to hole digging. ContractName nFilled FillPrice NetPos NetProfit TotalProfit ER2 1 639.1 -1 0 0 ER2 1 638.9 0 20 20 ER2 1 640.6 -1 20 20 ER2 1 640.5 0 30 30 ES 1 1214 -1 0 30 ES 1 1214 -2 0 30 ES 1 1213.75 -1 12.5 42.5 ES 2 1213.75 0 25 55 ER2 1 640.4 -1 30 55 ER2 1 640.3 0 40 65 ES 1 1214.25 -1 25 65 ES 2 1214.25 -2 25 65 ES 2 1214 0 50 90 ER2 1 640.8 -1 40 90 ER2 1 640.7 0 50 100 ER2 1 642.3 -1 50 100 ER2 1 642.2 0 60 110 ES 1 1215.25 -1 50 110 ES 2 1215.25 -2 50 110 ES 1 1216.25 -3 50 110 ES 2 1216.25 -4 50 110 ES 2 1217.25 -6 50 110 ES 3 1217.25 -7 50 110 ES 4 1217.25 -8 50 110 ES 1 1216.25 -7 0 60 ES 2 1216.25 -5 -50 10 ES 4 1216.25 -2 50 110 ES 4 1216.25 0 150 210 ER2 1 642.7 -1 60 210 ER2 1 642.6 0 70 220 ES 1 1215.5 1 150 220 ES 2 1215.5 2 150 220 ES 1 1215.75 1 162.5 232.5 ES 1 1215.75 0 175 245 ES 1 1216.25 1 175 245 ES 1 1215.75 2 175 245 ES 2 1214.75 4 175 245 ES 2 1215.5 2 125 195 ES 2 1215.5 0 200 270 ER2 1 643.7 -1 70 270 ER2 1 643.6 0 80 280 ER2 1 643.9 -1 80 280 ER2 1 643.8 0 90 290 ER2 1 644.5 1 90 290 ER2 1 644.6 0 100 300 ES 1 1215 -1 200 300 ES 2 1215 -2 200 300 ES 2 1214.75 0 225 325 ES 2 1215 -2 225 325 ES 1 1215.75 -3 225 325 ES 2 1215.75 -4 225 325 ES 2 1215 -2 225 325 ES 2 1215 0 300 400
tango can you just post your blotter, I cant understand all the lines of trades, nor do I want to take time to calculate them. thanks
I came back and traded the end of the day and made some more on LU and a few others. It was a normal day, work-relax-then some more work.