Thursday, October 22, 2015

ERII

When a breakout level is too obvious there is a good chance that it will fail the first attempt. 
My entry here was a great low risk trade here.  I then put size on when it finally did break that 7.50 mark. 

Monday, October 19, 2015

Watch list

HELE



 USCR



LOCK

Monday, October 5, 2015

Oct 5.

My largest position XIV continues its tear towards contango: I own a lot of this in the 23, 25, 26 range.



APEI, short
back tests the breakdown price seemed to be rejected, setting up for a downward trust if there is any weakness broad markets.


FIT: nice consolidation, put on a starter position
OVAS:
This is one  that had a nice countertrend bounce over the past couple of days.  I like to short these types of stocks at the first sign of weakness.  Using a short time frame when the trend breaks, I enter.  I expect the win rate to be lower the shorter the time frame, but the pay off can be 5 to 1, which is why I take these trades.

This one did not work as a short... yet.  We

Although OVAS didn't work UNFI might:


Sunday, October 4, 2015

October 3 Trade Journal

My morning was pretty rough on the futures drop this morning.  NFLX gapped over the my stop, but here's how it played out. 



The video also discusses UNFI, a trade I was stalking but never triggered, to show the importance of waiting for confirmation..  It is okay not to take a trade. 

My APEI short continues to look good:

As does my Merger / Arbitrage play: