Started out as a good day and I tried to make more out of it. didnt work out well so far but I am short XCO and it hasnt broke the down trend yet. I did trade XCO back and forth by scalping it. XCO - 2964 QQQQ + 12 LVS + 139 HK + 221 CX + 73 CBL + 481 - 2035 for the day / week + 9051 for the month 34,800 shares 123,180 shares / mth
XCO started out on the wrong foot today and went against me before it started to continue its way down. Scalped it on its way down and while not fully getting back to even I did well. + 505 Traded YGE, holding overnight GGP +548 also scalped the ES during pre market + 90 + 1144 for the day - 891 for the week + 10195 for the month 43,000 shares 166,180 shares / mth
Mostly a slow day, especially after about 11AM CST. Trying to keep the powder dry and also want to be careful in this market. closed out the YGE carry over from yesterday at a great price of 2.50 (hod up to that point) + 159 XL was the best trade of the day + 867 S:H DRH + 159 S:H + 1185 for the day + 294 for the week + 11380 for the month 4800 shares 170,980 shares / mth
What a great day. I actually drove to work and thought it would be a slow day. Not at all the case. The best part was I actually didnt need to use any leverage although I thought LNC may kick some in as it was looking very good. While I started out trading right away and closed out LNC near the end of day, most of the day was just simply sitting and waiting for the charts to fully setup. LNC + 2066 S:H I am missing my signals for the rest as TS is once again having problems XL +484 SLM + 467 PRU + 1050 HUN + 859 CX +9 + 5127 for the day + 5421 for the week + 16801 for the month 36302 shares 207282 shares / mth
Best day of the week and most likely would have been better if tradestation software would work. As a result I only traded three different stocks and only scalped them. SLW + 72 MS + 4122 CHK + 2809 + 7004 for the day + 12425 for the week + 23805 for the month 73600 shares 280,882 shares mth
As expected I did only short today. I traded mostly the YM and did pretty well. During the close I faded the move up and as of this post I am still short the YM and fading the aftermarket move up. Perhaps this will have some legs and keep going but I am thinking the market is headed down before up. once again TradeStation doesnt work well. Going to reinstall the whole OS and try it again. Perhaps it was the antivirus making a filter issue. Not sure. YM + 1924 QQQQ + 48 MS + 958 + 2932 for the day / week + 24098 for the month 19400 shares 300,282 shares / mth post delayed due to ET being down
Took a beating with the YM last night and with XL today. I did make a few dollars today with YM but not even close enough to make up for the loss. I really thought we would pull back down from the rally yesterday. I guess I was right but early which is just as bad as being wrong. Once again today I had nothing but problems with my Tradestation computer. I did do a reinstall of the TS software this last weekend but its only better but not fixed. Now I am installing Xp64 on the box and I hope to solve my problems. I could have put XP pro back on but since I had x64 on hand and the computer is a dual xeon with 4 gig of ram I thought it may end up to be much better. I did make some gains trading the HSI last night but I dont count that in this PnL YM - 6365 (first time at bat with the YM) XL - 2098 (tried to fade the move up but started too early) TCB + 167 S:H IBKR - 169 (swing trade) -8466 for the day - 5534 for the week + 15632 for the month 66160 shares 366,442 shares / mth TCB is on a watch list for tomorrows open
slowest day for me in months. Not easy to find good setups in this market when your standard MO is to short fade. As I type this we are down about 9% on the major markets and what can I say beyond WOW. When did NY become some banana republic trading center? On a good note I changed over my computer running tradestation to XP64. It can now use the full 4 gig of ram and I am thinking of even adding more. Ran like a champ all day so far. trades today are small in volume and in number of trades. QQQQ + 51 DIA - 30 CBL + 232 EBAY ?? unknown as I am trading it as I type this. so far I closed out + 143 and my price is at ave 14.26 (can you believe ebay is 14 and change?? again wow) + 396 for the day - 5138 for the week + 16028 for the month 22000 shares 388,442 shares / mth numbers off from blotter due to trading ebay after screen shot.