Monday, August 8, 2011

Opportunity

I'm stating the obvious in saying there is tremendous opportunity in the way the markets are plunging. I wrote many helpful articles during the plunge of 2008 that should be useful if the markets behave the same way. To recap some basic tenants of my trading philosophy:

- Concentrate, focus, know yourself and your limits.
- Keep things simple.
- Go with the flow.
- Take profits when you'd be crazy not to.
- Press your advantage to an almost reckless level when you are in sync.
- There is no limit to where prices can go. Up, Down or bounce. Think 1000 point days on the Dow.
- Cut losers ultra fast.
- Pare your plays down to 2 or 3 at a time and trade big size.
- Momentum is king, fundamentals are meaningless, technical levels are of little use.

In times like these, more money will fly into your account than years trading a grinding market. Don't think you are smarter than the market if you are wildly successful - it is just the conditions that making it appear so. Be humble and give something back to those less fortunate than you.
Happy trading.

Monday, June 27, 2011

GRMN


GRMN short
* I have new monitors so scale is off until I find out what works. Will make changes in order to view volume, prices etc.*
















GRMN cover

Friday, June 17, 2011

RIMM cover


I'm on an extended holiday but put on some swing shorts to keep me in the loop beforehand.
I had a whopping big short position in RIMM and with more bad news coming out I thought it prudent to cover and take profits today.

RIMM short












Cover RIMM $30 lower.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

BC


EZ money on BC short



















cover BC seconds later

GPRO



short GPRO again

















again its just hanging there so I add to my short
















cover GPRO, take profits

REGN



short REGN


















add to it















cover REGN

GPRO



the upwards momentum died so I shorted GPRO

















doubled up in GPRO because it was just hanging there. hanging there after a big pop almost never ends well for the longs














cover GPRO

GPRO


bot GPRO as it flashed on the new highs ticker, then it got halted

















opened a couple minutes later $10 higher, take profits. Now its halted again

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

SINA


short SINA



















cover SINA

REGN


Bot REGN when it looked to make a sympathy play along with VRTX yesterday. It didn't do to much then...
















sold REGN this morning after a nice popup.