Thursday 21st February 2008

CRUSHED! I got out of the LEH trade too early (for only a small gain) and left the CROX trade open. Then tried to SHORT RIMM, got blown away, then tried to reverse the trade to get blown away again. It was a perfect scalp trade in both directions, problem was I was in the exact opposite as I should have/would have been if I was scalping with discipline. I'm a loser.

I also got out of the AAPL and NYX options... actually just before they tanked more, so i did the right thing for now.

I definitely won't be trading till Tuesday now. I need to re-group. The weekend!?

$-1500

STILL holding 350 CROX @ 28.16... wtf!?

People ask me my strategy. The chart below shows you a perfect play as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately, I did the complete opposite of what I should have done. Swap the Blues with the Reds and it's perfect.


Chart of the Day

Wednesday 20th February 2008

Managed to get out of the rest of Crocs by setting some buy orders well below the open. Actually got Crocs trade positive (impulsiveness got me into a mess and again discipline got me out) but kept holding 400 shares at 28.16. Will try to sell in the next couple of days. Started opening a position in LEH today. I'm short 550 @ $54.97 at the end of the day. Will fade in again tomorrow morning on any rise, but I doubt we'll see any. I don't know why I don't just scalp. I guess it takes too much "watching" and "acting" all day. I'm quite bored with it, even though I do well at it. Today was much more relaxing for me, I guess.

The fed report looked AWFUL. If tomorrow goes higher, expect a rally to 12900+ on the DOW, but I'm definitely expecting a head fake and a big down day tomorrow. We shall see.

Holding Long 350 Crox @ $28.16
Holding Short 550 LEH @ $54.97

$-360

Tuesday 19th February 2008

Got destroyed in the A/H by Crocs. Don't know what I was thinking (I guess I was getting bored with scalping) so I took a small position in Crocs just before the close. Instead of getting out when I had the chance, I decided to go long. Got crushed. And to make it worse am still holding 700 shares at $29.69.

$-1250

Friday 15th February 2008

An easy morning with a couple of quick scalps and a nice fading short on GS in the first 30 minutes. Trade the News got me a couple of bucks with ILMN and GME breaking up on news... I was in for less than 1 minute on each and made $200 off them... can't complain. The less you try to make, the easier it is to make. This has been a really good past couple of days.

The weekend!

+$400

Chart of the Day

Thursday 14th February 2008

Before this morning I very nervous about trading today, because of the gambling that has started to creep into my trading. Actually yesterday was one big casino for me. I've been very lucky a number of times, so this morning I went back to basics. I stuck to one stock, one strategy, and got one outcome. Good results from little risk and about an hour's work. I'll post the LEH chart with my entire day's trades after the weekend.

Nice!

+$365

Chart of the Day

Wednesday 13th February 2008

Luck again was on my side. Most of the day I was trading by the seat of my pants... not good, not good at all. Was up $700, then lost a bunch, then tried to recover it... was looking ominous there for a while, but ended ok. I gotta calm down.

+$430

Chart of the Day

Tuesday 12th February 2008

Wowser... i just had a brain explosion, hence I'm ending it for today... really stupid stuff. Got impatient on an upside reversal on POT, and went in way too early... was down over $1100 at one stage... ended up getting out on the reversal, paring gains at $151.25 (actually this was for a loss) and out at $151.85. All that for a $36 gain... I'm an idiot. See the chart below for NOT WHAT TO DO if you want to feed your family.

+$430


Chart of the Day (Brain surge)