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Posted by btr Thu, 25 Sep 2003 03:29:08 GMT
Triggered by OPEC's cut in oil production, all indexes dropped a lot. Although they were above or at support levels, the increased volume was troublesome.
EBAY hit the target @56 though the intraday high was 57.2. Left a lot of money on the table due to lack of time on watching the market closely.
Long: QQQ Oct 32 Puts, SNP (target 28 and trail 2), SUNW (trail 0.3) and MSFT SSF (target 31.5 and stop 28).
Posted by btr Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:47:43 GMT
Tonight, ES moved between 1026.25 and 1025.25. Six round trips for 1.5 point. Each tick is $12.5 - $4.8 = $7.7. The commission cost is too high for this kind of scalping. However, it does not require much attention or time attending the scalping process. You can scalp it while reading a book or blog on the web:-)Posted by btr Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:09:32 GMT
Bought SNP @ 26.42. It gapped up this morning bouncing from the spoort at 25. Target 28 and stop 25.
Yesterday, opened long positions in the mutual funds PIMCO MidCap, Loomis Sayles SmallCap Value and Templeton Foreign.
Posted by btr Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:25:29 GMT
EBAY intraday high was 57, but the sell order's condition was not met. So I still long EBAY SSF. The order is changed to two market sell orders with the conditions of EBAY last price <= 54.5 or >= 56.1. The long tail on the candle looks bearish though, which is why the lower limit is set to 54.5. It's hard to set trail stop on SSF since it's not traded often, therefore, the trailing does not work.Edit: Looking at the intraday chart, the 57 print was not shown there. It might be a misprint on other quote source.
Posted by btr Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:36:52 GMT
Have you tried port forwarding using SSH and VNC to any remote computer? It's so cool. You just need to have SSH client and VNC viewer set up on your workstation, and SSH server on your SSH gateway server, VNC server on you remote server, and your're good to rock'n roll! Here're the urls to get all the tools.Posted by btr Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:02:54 GMT
I have been doing some experiment on scalping ES at night. The result has been great. All winners no loser. Most of time, ES does not move a lot. I guess it could move big if there's news from other part of world where it's daytime. I plan to write a program to automate the scalping.
EBAY: Target 56 and Stop raised from 50 to 52 since it moved in my favor (half point above break even point).
Posted by btr Sun, 14 Sep 2003 15:42:05 GMT
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Posted by btr Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:28:46 GMT
Stopped out at 35.72. Long SUNW stop 3.5. Will buy EBAY SSF at market at open tomorrow morning.Short candidates: HAL, GSF, MSFT?, AMZN, DDR, TYC, ...
Posted by btr Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:49:42 GMT
HNP stopped out. SOHU trail changed to 1.5. SUNW stop 3.5. Still holding QQQ Oct 32 PUTS.
NT reversed and dropped a lot.
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