Daily Summary

8400 shares
+231

I made $100 in ATI from going long a break of 82. I was a bit slow and missed the shares at 82. I got in at 82.13 and 82.16. I sold 100 at 82.35 and 100 at 82.98 for a gain of $106. Right after my ATI trade I jump into 200 CRS at 61.21 and ended up losing all my gains when I got out of the nasty reversal at 60.68. I hesitated too long and had a big loss. RDC was my biggest winner. I got into 400 shares at an average of 45.08. I got out of 200 at 45.61 and 200 at 45.56 for a gain of $212. I made up to $300 in profits and then gave some back.

Daily Summary

Wednesday
8000 shares
+273

Today
14000 shares
-37

Today was a bit frustrating. I decided to boost my size to 300-400 shares positions. I was not patient in the morning and I kept forcing trades, instead of waiting for nice setups to come along. As I started losing, I kept taking more trades and lost some more. It seems like on days that I try to get aggressive and make money I lose money. I was down over $300 at noon. I managed to recoup most of my losses by going long JCP when it broke out of 45.39, a daily chart resistance. I got 300 shares at 45.39 but got shaken out at 45.35. Then I got 300 again at 45.59 and held on. I sold 100 at 46.50 and the rest at 46.25. I wish I had more shares, but since I was down over $300, it was hard for me to go aggressive.

Daily Summary

11000 shares
+230

I did not catch any big movers today. My biggest gain was around 90 bucks. I caught a few scalps on the long side.

I found a pretty good website(finviz) for trading research thanks to Brian from Alpha Trends. For a free site it has pretty powerful screening tools. I played around with it today for a little bit and I like it.

I like how it shows the chart of all the stocks from the scan. It also draws trendlines and finds patterns for you. Nice.

Daily Summary

Wednesday
6600 shares
+237

Thursday
13600 shares
+18

Today
5800 shares
+263

I had a good week last week, but this week I find myself trading defensively again. This has helped me some what because I am very skeptical about most of the moves. I kept my focus on stocks with earnings and stayed away from trading other stuff. I haven't had much success trading them for the last month or two.

Daily Summary

Monday
6800 shares
+162

Today
18400 shares
-126

I was forcing trades early on and lost around 180 by 9:39. My pnl was seesawing between positive and negative for most of the day. I was down around 36 bucks until I made an aggressive trade in COV at around 2:15. I bought 600 shares at 49. I wasn't too confident so I got out of 200 shares at 49.04. The stock dropped fast and got out of my 400 shares at 48.75. I wanted to make a comeback but I could not find any trades. I also had a hard time trying to stay awake so I guess it is best not to force anything.

Daily Summary

7800 shares
+670

I had a nice trade in BWA.

Daily Summary

6200 shares
+1528

After 2 weeks of watching earnings stocks run up 2-3 bucks from the open, I finally caught one of them. I had the golden touch today and most of my trades are winners. My total losers only added up to $55.

ASF was my money maker. I took 400 shares and rode it up taking partial profits along the way. If all trades move this fast then trading would be easy. I made 761 in ASF on 400 shares.



I also made some money in TRN, MGA, MSA and N in the long side.

Daily Summary

10400 shares
+334

My trading was not going anywhere and I was up only hundred bucks at noon. I saw JLL break down to new lows. I was skeptical and have no conviction so I got only 200 shares. I made the bulk of my gains in this trade and called it a day.

Daily Summary

11400 shares
-59

Daily Summary

7000 shares
-199

I had 2 costly mistakes in the morning which added up to most of my losses today. I did not trade the fertilizer stocks for awhile and today I tried to play them. I spotted TRA going up so I went long MON. Instead of moving up MON continued down lost 46 cents on 100 shares. I thought maybe TRA was going to follow MON and the other fertilizer stocks so I shorted 200 shares of TRA. I got squeezed for 86 bucks as TRA continued up. One good thing is I covered instead of waiting or my loss could have been much greater. I have stopped taking trades like these because they involve to much guess work. I guess my old habits crept back today. I did not catch anything else the for most of the day and lost a bit more.