Review of my Chat Room Stock Day Trades for Friday Nov 11, 2016.

Intro:

Time stamped entries (in permanent archive) copied to this blog in italics (below) are direct live log chat from chat trade room as they occurred (random chat from myself not applicable or other misc chat deleted). Chat trade room is also video recorded daily for trade archive (we start sharing videos soon – just one more thing on the to-do list).

In addition to chat, this trade-room has live voice broadcast (that covers in detail what indicators I am looking for in and out off each trade) and has live chart screen sharing right from my monitor to the room with all indicators I am looking at.

Overview Perspective of Trades and Alerts: Simple but BIG Lessons Here.

In general, Friday was a difficult day for me… 3 small losses – no gains. The bonds caught me off guard and caused me to re-think. Also though… the reality is some basic disciplines went out the window. Simple stuff like trade the width or in other words the pivots (the range)… but trade them with price and volume momentum. Simple… simple… stuff. Money is made intra trading the outside ranges with price movemenet with volume momentum and cut quick if wrong. Really simple. So simple it seems we can find ourselves forgetting that. But truth is just that will get you 60 – 70% success ratio in my experience. So in short…. it doesn’t matter if there was a pull-back or the bonds or what the reason is… if you don’t trade the outside range when you have price confirmation (movement in the right direction) along with volume then YOU SHOULD NOT TRADE – IT IS A GAMBLE – pure and simple.

So this coming week for me will be all about returning to the basics. When the set-up is there I will trade – if not then I will $STUDY like all of us should.

Today’s Trades And Alerts Transcript and Notes: $PTCT, $UWTI, $XIV, $EBIO, $DRYS, $JJC, $STEM

08:53 am Curtis Melonopoly : Pre-Market Gainers Watch-list: $PTCT $NVDA $MACK $JJC $RGSE $CWH $MACK $OMER $YANG $EDZ $BT $DGAZ $AMD $TVIX $DWTI $SRPT $UVXY $JNUG
08:53 am Curtis Melonopoly : Misc. Watch-list: $UGAZ (Chart), $C (Bank), $MNST (Bottom Play), $DRYS (Shipper), $THC (Bottom Play), $TPL (Trump Play), $JJC (Continued Copper Break-Out?), $AUMN (Favorite Penny play w / Gold and Silver break-out).
08:54 am Curtis Melonopoly : https://compoundtrading.com/pre-market-newsletter-nov-11-usoil-wti-oil-dxy-dollar-vix-gld-gold-natgas/
09:02 am Curtis Melonopoly : $IAU also
09:22 am Curtis Melonopoly : Good morning
09:26 am Curtis Melonopoly : $EBIO, $DRYS, $PTCT, $JJC, $STEM possible for open
09:27 am Curtis Melonopoly : And NatGAS but… unlikely
09:37 am Curtis Melonopoly : I’ll get the other crew on other server back
09:39 am Curtis Melonopoly : $PTCT in 11.03 out 10.34 small play at 300 shares – small loss on swing account

Loss # 1 for the day – small loss. Should have cut earlier.
09:53 am Curtis Melonopoly : So Watching NATGAS for long, $JDST for pull back for long, $THC for further dip to take 2nd swing entry, $XIV for exit (likely not until Tues).
09:56 am Curtis Melonopoly : Making a few calls back in a bit
09:57 am Curtis Melonopoly : Careful with $SPY could drip all day to 214.46 ish
09:57 am Curtis Melonopoly : $JDST may not get an entry it’s not waiting
10:32 am Curtis Melonopoly : https://twitter.com/curtmelonopoly GOLD
10:33 am Curtis Melonopoly : https://twitter.com/curtmelonopoly SILVER
10:37 am Curtis Melonopoly : Running screens – back in 10 – 20
10:38 am Curtis Melonopoly : Marked my preferred by in $JDST 34.50 area
10:38 am Curtis Melonopoly : Waiting for $IAU to finish it’s intra uptrend
10:39 am Curtis Melonopoly : NATGAS looks like a bottom but we don’t have math locked in on it.
10:39 am Curtis Melonopoly : $SPY Could see 214.50 – could – before uptrend in to Tuesday
11:00 am Curtis Melonopoly : $DXY targets https://twitter.com/curtmelonopoly/status/789420610996678656
11:10 am Curtis Melonopoly : Out of small account $XIV from yesterday – going to try and trade out of that loss (about 1.50 I’l have to check)

Loss # 2 for the day. Swing from day before. Small loss. Should have held actually. Pivots – range etc.
11:13 am Curtis Melonopoly : 37.53 fill on sell order $XIV on small account swing from yesterday
11:20 am Curtis Melonopoly : Watching $TZA for $DXY break-out possible
11:30 am Curtis Melonopoly : $UUP watch instead
11:36 am Mathew Waterfall : Would be a nice double top if it heads south from here
12:07 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Going to get a coffee back in 20 for afternoon session – tough market for me.
01:14 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Long $UWTI 17.125 avg small account
01:32 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Out $UWTI 17.03 loss

Loss # 3 for the day – for some reason I thought it was 2 – need to confirm before I post stats on my Twitter feed lol.
01:41 pm Curtis M : These markets are confused …. sitting on hands may be best.. Inflation, bonds, credit markets, currencies they´re all confused lol
01:42 pm Mathew Waterfall : Yea things are backwards all over the place. Should have gone flat earlier in the week over here. Gold, oil, bonds, all trading crazy
01:45 pm Curtis M : $XIV going up while oil tanks… ummm
01:46 pm Mathew Waterfall : Again, weird. XIV up, VIX also up. Put buying up
01:46 pm Mathew Waterfall : It doesn’t make sense
01:46 pm Mathew Waterfall : I think we see a big shake out before thanksgiving. And the whipsaw will be real and violent
01:46 pm Mathew Waterfall : Just picked up some $USLV for the occasion
01:47 pm Curtis M : I havent spun my tires like last 2 days for literally I can´t recall
01:48 pm Mathew Waterfall : I haven’t traded this hard and lost money either. Should have stayed in Palm Springs for the week
01:50 pm Curtis M : Trends will start soon enough
02:02 pm Curtis M : Theyre selling the rips so that makes it tough …
02:09 pm GSCT . : Should $NUGT correlate with an up move?
02:09 pm Curtis M : Yes
02:09 pm Curtis M : $IAU has volume
02:09 pm Curtis M : Not sure why
02:11 pm GSCT . : But your algos show Gold down more 1167(?) before ramping?
02:12 pm Curtis M : Yes
02:13 pm GSCT . : It’s how I have been trading.
02:14 pm Curtis M : Long $IAU small acount for a gamble at 11.80 800 shares
02:14 pm GSCT . : Curious about incorporating your data into my strategy.
02:15 pm GSCT . : What’s the winning percentage of your Gold algo? I tink you said oil is 90% day trade rate.
02:16 pm GSCT . : think
02:18 pm GSCT . : Wow.
02:18 pm GSCT . : But no Natty Gas algo.
02:19 pm Curtis M : Out $IAU for basicallly flat .5 cent loss

Basically flat.
02:19 pm Mathew Waterfall : OIL ramp into pit close here
02:21 pm Mathew Waterfall : TONS of volume in /CL contracts as well
02:21 pm Mathew Waterfall : don’t want to go home short crew covering their a$$
02:23 pm Curtis M : back before last hour 345 at latest checking on other traders etc
02:23 pm Curtis M : would like one last hit for the week
02:23 pm Curtis M : algo charting technical next week
02:45 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Back in 5 – all our equipment came in today so we’re fully set up in one week! yehhaw – anyway scanning for afternoon EOD play
03:14 pm Mathew Waterfall : I out all of my miners. Those things look horrible, and gold looks horrible. Will look for set up in $DUST moving forward via calls most likely
03:19 pm Curtis M : Have a great weekend guys and gals!
03:19 pm Curtis M : I will stay close to monitors to hear alarms until end of day.
03:20 pm Curtis M : Big reports coming out for before Monday open we start with algos next week.

So that was 3 small losses… the first momo trade the loss could have been smaller and the other two I should have held – if I was respecting the range I would have but I was obviously not respecting simple fundamental principles of successful trading. Hope you learn from that!

Monday a new day!

Best and stay blessed.

Curt

 

Topics: Wall Street, Stocks, Stock Market, Day Trading, Chat Room


My Stock Trading Plan for Friday November 11, 2016.

Welcome to the Friday trading session!

I am not going to repost our standard line-up of the US Dollar, Gold, Miners, Silver, Copper, Natural Gas, Oil, S & P 500 and Volatility because my position is the same as yesterday (refer to pre-market stock watchlist Thursday).

Momentum Stocks (Market open and Intra-Day)

I do trade morning momo stocks at times, but I do avoid risk. Just prior to open and shortly after open I post momentum stocks to the trade chat room (and Twitter if I have time).

The momentum stocks (from previous days and morning trade) I continue to watch through the day for indicators that allow a trade.

Stock Watch-Lists

Regular Watch-List: Gold $GLD, Miners $GDX ($NUGT, $DUST, $JDST, $JNUG), Silver $SLV ($USLV, $DSLV), Crude Oil FX: $USOIL $WTI ($UWTI, $DWTI), Natural Gas ($UGAZ, $DGAZ), S & P 500 $SPY ($SPXL, $SPXS), US Dollar Index $DXY ($UUP, ), Volatility $VIX ($TVIX, $UVXY, $XIV)

Misc. Watch-list: $UGAZ (Chart), $C (Bank), $MNST (Bottom Play), $DRYS (Shipper), $THC (Bottom Play), $TPL (Trump Play), $JJC (Continued Copper Break-Out?), $AUMN (Favorite Penny play w / Gold and Silver break-out).

Pre-Market Gainers Watch-list: $PTCT $NVDA $MACK $JJC $RGSE $CWH $MACK $OMER $YANG $EDZ $BT $DGAZ $AMD $TVIX $DWTI $SRPT $UVXY $JNUG

Stay tuned in Chat Room for more pre-market stocks on watch. 

Study

Free scanners to find momentum stocks that you can easily review charts of for indicators that bring probability of your trade being successful up considerably. These are not useful for first 30 minute market open super-nova type plays (you need a good momentum scanner for the first 30 mins of trade)… but are very useful for intra day scalping (start with trending stocks and then look at indicators intra for simple set-ups – study scan study scan study scan).

http://finviz.com/

https://finance.yahoo.com/screener/predefined/ec5bebb9-b7b2-4474-9e5c-3e258b61cbe6

http://www.highshortinterest.com/

http://www.3xetf.com/all/

Algorithmic trading / traditional charting trading starts Monday!

GL!

Curtis

 

Topics: Stockmarket, Pre-Market, Trading Plan, Wall Street, Stocks, Day-trading, Watchlist


Review of my Chat Room Stock Day Trades for Thursday Nov 10, 2016.

Intro:

Time stamped entries (in permanent archive) copied to this blog in italics (below) are direct live log chat from the trade room as they occurred (random chat from myself not applicable or other misc. chat deleted) .

Chat trade room is also video recorded daily for trade archive (we start sharing videos soon – just one more thing on the to-do list).

In addition to chat, this trade room has live voice broadcast (that covers in detail what indicators I am looking for in and out of each trade) and has live chart screen sharing right from my monitor to the room with all indicators I am looking at.

Today’s Trades And Alerts: $THC, $XIV, $DRYS, $TUBE, $ECPG, $GLBS, $EBIO

So we did get the snap back up in the market as expected… but Thursday it slowed… especially late in the day with the bond market firing off madness.

I got out of my small account and swing account $XIV swing from the night before for my two wins and entered in small account later in day expecting a spike in oil at latest at pit close (because it has been consolidating at support) and with the recent election catalyst I ASSUMED I was safe. But nope, market went flat with bond markets and oil never got price lift. So I’m long over-night in small account $XIV and still in a $THC swing that I may add to if it sees another leg down. I think the dip was over-done.

There were (again) some morning momentum stocks that I could have entered, but I was focused on a timely exit in my $XIV holdings…. overnight swings does make that tough.

So today I have to decide whether to add to $THC or cut and with $XIV I have to decide whether to hold over weekend if the market doesn’t get some positive price action.

09:03 am GSCT . : /CL dropping here
09:09 am Curtis Melonopoly : $TRP, $THC, $TPL, $WFT, $JJC #Copper, $AUMN, $UWTI for bounce at algo line (red)
09:11 am Curtis Melonopoly : Gap $TUBE $LIQT $HPJ $AMDA $AEG $CLLS $MTL $UBS $WBIO $OMER
09:26 am Curtis Melonopoly : $BAC
09:27 am Curtis Melonopoly : Watching $XIV for exit and renter
09:27 am Curtis Melonopoly : Watching $THC for possible exit
09:29 am Curtis M : $XLF $TBF $TBT $TLT $BAC
09:29 am Curtis M : Also watching oil for support
09:44 am Curtis Melonopoly : Out $XIV 40.42 avg on both small and swing

So this was win # 1 and win #2 on day and was a 39.27 entry in swing account and small account with a 40.42 exit for about 1.15 gain or 2.5% ish.

From yesterday:

02:44 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Loooking at size in $XIV in 5ths 1/5 today
02:46 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Long $XIV 1/10 size 39.27 scale over next 24 hours the rest
02:48 pm Curtis Melonopoly : $XIV is 500 shares of 1/10 39.27

09:44 am Curtis Melonopoly : reenter lunch or sooner
09:54 am GSCT . : We need some cold weather to pop /NG
10:03 am Curtis Melonopoly : $DXY US Dollar Index upside res 98.61, 98.78 (short term PT), 98.91, 99.17, 99.28, 99.64, 99.80
10:30 am Curtis Melonopoly : When others return from other room accept my apologies lol we’ll get it sorted before DEc 1
10:30 am Curtis Melonopoly : And the grey out will be too
10:33 am Curtis Melonopoly : Back in 20 – Sartaj working on getting the others back in to this server lol too
10:33 am Curtis Melonopoly : Running scans
10:33 am Curtis Melonopoly : Trading Plan enter $XIV and $USOIL around lunch
10:59 am Curtis Melonopoly : Ok I gotta run momo scanns so I may as well take an early lunch cause plays will ikely start earlier than normal for afternoon session
11:00 am Curtis Melonopoly : Catch you back here 11:40 ish
12:17 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Loading for $XIV long
12:31 pm Mathew Waterfall : Big wedge building in /CL. I went into $UWTI for a starter
12:42 pm Mathew Waterfall : IMO this is calm before the storm
12:52 pm Mathew Waterfall : /CL going vertical here as well
12:56 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Long $XIV small account 400 shares 39.08
12:56 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Sorry for late alert
01:06 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Whats your buy Mathew?
01:07 pm Mathew Waterfall : On a vol play of /cl?
01:07 pm Mathew Waterfall : *or
01:08 pm Mathew Waterfall : I took $UWTI at /cl 44.55
01:08 pm Mathew Waterfall : for volitility I got out of VXX puts this AM. Back in a bit earlier
01:08 pm Mathew Waterfall : I’m in Nov25 VXX 30’s @.78
01:08 pm Mathew Waterfall : Currently trading for a buck
01:22 pm Robert Norman : Are you using SMA?
01:26 pm GSCT . : I’ve been in and out of chat. DId you ahve a posotion in $XIV for this +$2 move?
01:28 pm GSCT . : have position
01:31 pm Mathew Waterfall : 44.80 seems to be line in the sand on /CL. someone defending
01:35 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Long $XIV small account 400 shares 39.08 (previous post) still long
01:37 pm GSCT . : Cool. Thanks.
01:47 pm Curtis Melonopoly : NP – back in 20
02:00 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Ok now going to do 2 calls back soon
02:25 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Looking for swing acct entry 1/5 2000 shares at bottom of channel on $SPY
02:27 pm Curtis Melonopoly : $DRYS 180% lol
02:31 pm Mathew Waterfall : Took some straight /CL contracts @44.62. Looking for a bounce off of recent support
02:51 pm GSCT . : Gold looking for the basement floor
03:06 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Gold https://twitter.com/curtmelonopoly/status/796806153351168000
03:14 pm Mathew Waterfall : In some $TZA lotto’s for tomorrow. Think we might see a little pullback here
03:21 pm Curtis Melonopoly : I may have to sit through a pullback we’ll see – on $XIV
03:33 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Bonds are an issue right now – but I think very short term – then ATH $SPY ramp up again Tuesday at very latest
03:38 pm GSCT . : $LABD 14.65 – 14.94
03:43 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Holding $XIV overnight – until Tues if need be while bonds sort out… and out this morning $XIV on small acct and swing acct for win. Holding $THC swing but will hammer down again up to 5 times if it drops (1/5 sized in).
03:43 pm Curtis Melonopoly : Have a great night!

 

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