Showing posts with label bad trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad trade. Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2012

INVN: Back In after bounce at support.

Successfully tested 14.70, where it previously found support.  I'm not betting on a V shaped recovery but I think there's a decent shot at making a charge at 16.50.  This stock can get pretty wild. 

And stopped out:  The market was brutal today,  But I had a nice gap up and got greedy.   Rode it all the way down to my stop.   In a choppy market sell the gap on a stock that has been brutalized as of late. I took a $250 loss on what I could have and  should have had a gain.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

INVN, shakout

The MMs jumped right over my stop and sank the stock.  It rallied after hitting the 26 ema, which also marks the highs from the past rally.  I added another 100 at 19.67


Update:  So that didn't work well.  They sank this one and I'm out for a loss at 18.90.  loss of $258 on the position, which sucks after being up over 2 points.  

Lesson: I don't mind the loss on adding at the 26 ema. I do mind that my initial stop didn't get filled.  More attention to the type of order in fast moving stocks is necessary!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

REE: Update

REE sold off nearly 8%.    I've had a long standing buy to cover order at 5.36 for 1/3 of my position.   5.36 happened to be the low of the day earning me a 100% grade on the exit. Woo hoo!   This looks like a sick dog, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a relief rally because the sell of was so severe.  Anyway by taking profits, this will let me ride this much lower.  I'm triggering low 4s.


Triage:  In retrospect, this was a bad trade with many broken rules.  I fairness to myself, however, I took the position before I created the rules and before I had started the impulse system.   It's evident that I initiated this trade way too early  into a strong wave of buying.  The impulse system would have prevented me from taking this trade when I did.   Because I was only short only 200 shares I was able to ride out the position.  Also, I felt comfortable with the fundamental reasons for this short as I had researched it extensively.     

I entered this after a large move by selling ITM calls (short shares were scarce).    There was no MACD divergence at the time however,   Had I waited until that occurred I would have gotten short at least $1.50 higher.   My second entry was nearly 1.00 higher.  So I averaged into a losing position,  usually not a great strategy. 


Tuesday, February 28, 2012


Stopped out today.   Support failed to hold.     The problem with this trade was stock selection,  there was no way I should be trading a stock that doesn't average even 100 thousand shares a day.