Monday, June 17, 2013

Day Trade Examples

Trend Trade – JDSU

Yesterday I made a few trades in the morning that didn’t quite work out.  It was looking like it might be a pretty crappy trading day, however, I managed to catch the trend trade that formed in JDSU, and by focusing on that trade, managed to turn the day into a rather profitable day trading [...]

Opening Range Breakout – Gap Reversal

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I discussed the standard opening range breakout in my last post.  Now I want to talk about a variation of the Opening Range Breakout . It’s called the Opening Gap Reversal.  It’s just another of the many useful setups for day trading online that you can add to your arsenal. The Play The chart above [...]

Day Trading is Not an Exact Science

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The great thing about science is that it full of fun facts and formulas.  The fascinating thing about trading is that it is not. I pointed out a support level on Apple (AAPL) at 168.67 in another post. In that post, I also mentioned that I was long Apple (AAPL) above 168.67, and short below [...]

Using the Prior Day’s OHLC Indicator

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The OHLC Indicator is one of the simplest day trading indicators I know of. I don’t know if you’d even call it an indicator. It’s basically just doing something for me that I’m too lazy to do, and I love that because it saves me time and effort. I can use this time to do [...]

A Trade in Tweets – RIMM Short

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I had quite a morning day trading today.  The following is a transcript of my Tweets sent via Stocktwits as I traded RIMM. Since it all happens so fast, it is difficult to really give followers a picture of what I’m actually thinking, so below I’ve added what I was thinking at the time, and [...]

Amazon Buys Zappos and Creates a Day Trade

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In my post,  “10 Ways to Build a Better Watch List,” I discussed how you might spend your pre-market morning finding great stocks to trade.  Amazon (AMZN) is on my core watch list, but if it wasn’t, it definitely would have come up on my radar using the criteria in that post. There was news [...]

Day Trading First Solar

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As promised today on Twitter via StockTwits, here’s a recap of the FSLR day trade taken this morning. This trade was a result of the stock market in general being seriously downtrodden today along with this particular stock’s push to close the gap feeling especially weak.  I watched the tape to get a feel for [...]

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