Trading today's Fed.... the Powell reaction trade

Discussion in 'ETFs' started by KCalhoun, Dec 15, 2021.

  1. ktm

    ktm

    That's one helluva call. Held til close I think someone could have made 100 points on the S&P with this.

    Great call man!!!
     
    #31     Dec 15, 2021
  2. Overnight

    Overnight

    You should have seen the NQ action. 500+ points from trough to peak in 2 hours. Total nutso.
     
    #32     Dec 15, 2021
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  3. fan27

    fan27

    He won't scale up.....has been trading the same small size for years by his own admission. I don't get it.
     
    #33     Dec 15, 2021
  4. KCalhoun

    KCalhoun

    I trade thousands of shares many days, doing up to 80-100 roundtrips of 200-300 shares at a time. So I trade lots of size, incrementally.

    I often have trades on that are 1100-1400 shares total, during a run that I've scaled in to.

    Eg 200 shares at 15.2 + 200sh @15.4+300@15.55 + 200@15.7+300@15.85, sell all at 15.75 on pullback

    I never trade >1000 shares out of the gate, too risky for my taste. I'd rather do dozens of 200-300 share trades, nibbling vs gulping. :D
     
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    #34     Dec 15, 2021
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  5. comagnum

    comagnum

    Trading MNQ long off the 2B with my thesis "since when does Powell take away the punch bowel ?" Left part of my position on, looking for another big leg up, maybe new highs? This time year is often lucrative for bulls.

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    #35     Dec 15, 2021
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  6. S2007S

    S2007S

    What a day,,...everyone is all giddy but don't fall for it,, may rally a bit more but thats about it...Futures all green tonight but don't fall for a continued rally. In a brief second everything will look like Tuesday all over again. Take profits wherever you can. I will be adding more short etfs in the days ahead as markets probably make new highs once again and the s&p goes for its 68th record high of 2021.
     
    #36     Dec 16, 2021
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  7. verial

    verial

    The biggest problem now, from a technical standpoint, is that the SPY is likely to face some strong resistance levels as it attempts to push to a new high. This resistance to hitting new highs has been forming for roughly 30 days and is thus a huge hurdle for the SPY at the moment. Mid-term support remains bullish for the SPY, nonetheless.
     
    #37     Dec 16, 2021
  8. JSOP

    JSOP

    Vaccines' effectiveness results against the omicron variant is coming out soon. It's already been two weeks since they first discovered the variant. Is the market still going to be reacting to that or has the market completely forgotten about that and instead is focusing on Powell again?
     
    #38     Dec 16, 2021
  9. That's the way to go, but I think if you have a proven system, with known statistics, you should not be afraid to size up your initial quibbles + adds. That's how I am planning to do it.
     
    #39     Dec 16, 2021
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  10. Nicely done man. The market is so fucking dumb, it just relies on the central bank.
     
    #40     Dec 16, 2021
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