Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Tuesday's review

Looking for the gainers of premarket, i found an idea - to make basket from the top 5-10 gainers and short it due trading hours. :-) . Ofcoz , to do it , market have to weak or at least neutral. Maybe someone wanna to do statistical calculations to know is it work or no? Today again, stocks, which had positive background, gained on premarket, was trading in minus zone all day on mixed market. One of the exception - MS, which announced about money back to TARP. I traded nice on it. Here is screenshot.

And at once daily chart

I longed MS @29.04 when S&P was on way to the high board of the range. But we still had lunch time at US so havent enaough powerfull to brekout higher. Before the entering a position i saw that MS making my favorite pattern for daytrade - an ascending triangle. When lunch time ended, S&P was on the bottom of a range and began to growth. Then as we expected we saw a breakout on MS on large volume. S&P began to trade on high board of a range and MS grew higher and higher. I was not very happy to see this. Then S&P breakout key resistance, which pushed MS to 29.86 high. Next i saw this things. We made on MS small red candle with a big volume. This was good signal for potentional reverse. And as on every breakout i refreshed Dr. Bret tweeter and saw this "steenbab1:58 PM CT - Highs in ES not confirmed so far by IWM, XLF, XLV. We continue to see absence of signif selling in TICK.". So we could expect that this breakout was false. And really we saw this on market and traderfeed's twitter - "steenbab2:40 PM CT - Once again we see how the non-confirmed moves tend to reverse, continuing the range trade. Back l8r today.". I saw that MS made support @29.5 lvl, so changed stop loss order to 29.45. In really, when i expect false breakout i should close MS with a big profit. But i hoped, just hoped, that this non-confirmed breakout will push market higher. I put stop loss on MS in the way - if S&P will break support, only on this situation my stop loss will execute. Maybe this was not ideal from me, but even on this i am satisfied with this trade. I made another 41 pips of profit.
I had another small trade during a day, but it was not intersting. Just came a victim of false breakout @USB.
Also had new ideas on pennystocks. Wait for tommrrow udpates.
Also we made began to make speculative portfolio with active managment. I will also write some info on it.
Good night!

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