Weinstein Trading and Fading

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Robert Weinstein, May 5, 2008.

  1. Thanks Traderpro,

    Nice of you to take the time to say so.

    I will do my best thats for sure. : o )


    Bob
     
    #291     Sep 9, 2008
  2. NoDoji

    NoDoji

    Bob, congrats on your month! That's amazing!
     
    #292     Sep 9, 2008
  3. Mostly a slow day. Lots of scalping but I did have one trade.

    WM + 426
    S:lori

    bought more of RICK and IBKR. Both are swing trades.

    LEH, covered LEH from yesterday at the open and followed up with scalping it musch of the day. bought a lot of shares at the close and carrying them overnight + 1535


    GFIG + 390 scalped

    + 2353 for the day
    + 18158 for the week
    + 31149 for the month

    71,636 shares
    478663 shares / mth
     
    #293     Sep 10, 2008
  4. sc85

    sc85

    You are my most respected trader on this site, keep up the excellent job!

    Still hold a lot of LEH? Its down huge before market, hope you have got ride of them already.

    sc85
     
    #294     Sep 11, 2008
  5. I woke up this morning and went to check the price of LEH as I carried it overnight. I have to say it was down so much in pre market trading that at first I thought I made a mistake in the symbol.

    I sold off about half the shares at about $5 and helf the rest as I have seen this before and normally there is a recovery.

    Came back about 20 mins later and LEH was around $4 so I bought back much of what I sold.

    I was able to trade it back and forth and actually recovered about $7000 by scalping it all day.

    It was a mistake to hold overnight regardless of the outcome.

    During the last 15 mins of trading today I was selling off and going to take the hit and walk. News came out that LEH is in talks (big suprise i know) and then LEH started moving higher and very quickly. As a result I am going to once again hold this overnight. I dont actually like the idea and I just as soon cut the loss but I do have a buy signal and I feel the odds favor holding (something that was not the case yesterday)

    My gut tells me there is some positive news tomorrow or at least nothing negative and at the least it will have a dead cat bounce from shorts covering.

    This is a good example of why not to trade in too large of size and to go slower than what it feels like you should.

    At least the chart looks good and that we saw the spike panic down today.

    - 45244 for the day (record)
    - 24086 for the week
    - 14095 for the month

    96600 shares

    575233 shares / mth
     
    #295     Sep 11, 2008
  6. sorry about the loss 1R.......I too had a terrific week turned sour today. I'm sure u'll make it up in a heartbeat. cheers!!

    btw...how many shares of LEH overnite?
     
    #296     Sep 11, 2008
  7. CBuster

    CBuster

    Hey 1Reason. Sorry to read about your loss yesterday. You have been on fire lately and most inspirational to hear from each day. I'm sure you'll be able to bounce back - good luck
     
    #297     Sep 12, 2008
  8. Bob ... life's (aka trading) like that ..." up n down" ... i have faith in you ... you'll be up >>>>>>>>>>>> again! i believe in u :)
     
    #298     Sep 12, 2008
  9. Thanks, WOW really nice of you. As you can see I did not dump in time.

    I guess I have a few things to learn about avoiding landmines.

    Thanks and best of trading to you

    Bob
     
    #299     Sep 12, 2008
  10. Hi Forsalenyc,

    we will both make it up quickly.

    pretty much moved out by hedging with options. Going to try to grab some premium.

    Have a good weekend

    Bob
     
    #300     Sep 12, 2008