+$250.00................It was the first trade of the day....and the market was kind to me....because its my birthday !........LOL........decided to take the money and run !
+$201 The durable news moved price too quickly both directions for me to play (though I bracketed it in sim and made a very fast $275). I then waited through NYMEX open, market open housing news and crude inventories before trading. When I saw price rebound off the inventory news I had a "dead cat bounce" long bias and traded an inside breakout, scalping 20 ticks and leaving 20 more on the table. I then felt price was "too high" to play the other upside breakouts because the news itself was so bearish. Silly me. I did take a pure counter-trend trade off large secondary move , but the $100 that showed evaporated pretty quickly, leaving me with my case of "too high to buy" disease.
Great day but this volatility is stressful. Got a really 2008ish feeling when I saw the housing numbers. 0825: +$924.