Makin a livin', trading FSLR, POT , TSLA, PHOT
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
That was my only trade. Had to wait for my money to clear. When I got up before, I sent my seed money back to my bank hoping to not need it. So much for that plan. Got called in to work today and was just going to watch but the transfer had cleared so I tried to make a few bucks. Barely got lunch money.
FB 93 puts played mid day .43 out .49 ..missed .70 on a really quick bounce. I bailed with a tiny profit after fees. Looks like it still wants to go down and I had several chances for a better exit later this afternoon. Real nice on the AMZN. Sat on my hands all morning ..passed on AAPL calls BABA 70 calls NFLX calls early morning. Can't get on the right horse. FB was working but I was a minute too slow. Working today and got stuck on the phone a few minutes at the wrong time. At least I made a trade without losing anything.
Actually 2 weeks but I was making steady progress. Pride and not wanting to admit I got it wrong....human weakness. Hard to fight that sometimes.
Talking heads don't seem to be so negative today. Last week it was just gloom and doom all day every day. Are they trying to talk up a bounce? Not working so far, still sell the rip
The earlier NFLX trade I should have never added to that position. It never made any move to make that work. Risked too much for the size of my account.Could have just bailed down $70 -80 instead of _$200 . yep ...win small lose big(er) ..wrong strategy
I'll do in $ because my trades are so small. Started with $240 1) +$38 2)+ $59 3)+ $106 4) + $134 dbl+ 5)+ $34 6) -$99 7) +$35 8) +$65 9)-$233 nflx got too deep in it, stupid ave down move. 10) -$162 nflx calls total screw up trade. $111 left kind of hard to trade with that small amount.
For like 2 minutes it was and I didn't flip out. Being pretty early in the day I gave it some time and just let it eat me up. Never got a bounce that gave me much of an out. I played most all my trades the wrong way but was faster to bail with a small profit. I was trading against the trend almost every time. That caught up to me. Puts were the play for the last 2 weeks . I played 1 put I think. Got to get back on the horse that threw me. Another lesson learned.
7 winners 3 losers. Yeh pretty much was trading against the grain for the gains. Finally lack of quickness to exit burned me. Friday I should have just stayed in bed.
UPdate good news 7 out of 10 winning trades...bad news only took the 3 bad ones to wipe out all my gains on the 7 good ones. NFLX killed me this week. Need to regroup. Slap in the face after a good start to the year.
NFLX forgot to post sold .13 from ave .43 - .30 7 for 9
Got killed on these. Only had a few but stupid is back. 7 for 10 back to square one. Small wins add up till a few bad set you right back. Well re focus and start over with what I have left.
NFLX 106 call .50 thought I had killed the order but it filled. .68 right now so maybe I'm OK for a quickie
Nice...that went surprisingly good. I've missed everything today. This morning felt like a trap so I watched. AAPL almost got me to bite but I thought I was a little late on the bounce. 98 calls were .57 now like 2 bucks.
Going a little now but NFLX not wanting to join the party today.
On the surface...go up but they could be hedging a 25k share short position. Seems like a really risky idea to follow but unusual option activity (volume) sometimes is a clue of things to come.
AAPL going your way now! It was sure hanging tough this morning.
NFLX calls snagged 118's at .60
I actually got in a few of those around 2:30 at .50 and sold .80 around 3:30. I never have good luck holding over night so I bailed. It charged up right to the bell. heck missed .97 but a good trade
Adding up slowly. I'm keeping it small like 3-6 contracts . Following your advice "profit of any size and tiny loses. Really concentrating on good entries. The one loss, I lost my focus and broke that rule. Your Bidu trade was stubborn today but finally paid off. Board is kind of quiet these days. Roy seems busy some days and I guess Beer is still stretching his vacation.
gap up then sell off but most things did a little better. Higher lows as they say. Careful a bounce doesn't take out your profit. I was looking at weekly calls on TWTR today but the premium was a bit high for the risk.
WAAAA? Waited all day for a bottom. Jumped in a few IWM calls when the chart looked good. Hoped for the late bounce like on Mon. IWM bot .50 sold .80 = +.30 7 for 8 for 2016 YEESSSSS! Might have made a little more but just taking nice profits when the money is good.Have a good one! Shred
7 for 8 johnny. Had one screw up and It had a chance if I would have bailed quickly when it didn't move strongly. Lesson learned. These could have popped more but holding over is not an option at this point. I've not played the fade in the mornings. Don't want me buying puts to turn this market. lol
IWM 104 calls In .50 out .80 + . 30 ! Whoo Hoo!! Man I waited all day but found the good entry. Might go higher but keeping to the plan. Smash and grap
I missed initial entry and when it backed up I killed the buy order .Whew!
Was stalking iwm calls myself. Your thoughts?
ELON MUSK is your whipping boy ! TSLA going red. Might hit 205 ish? What's the next support level you are watching?
You had a chance to salvage maybe a little profit on those lower strikes this morning but the 202's look like toast imo.
Too chicken to buy the 100 calls yesterday afternoon in this spastic market. Would have had a nice winner. Real rally today or gap and trap again?
EZ my brother has been buying SPH @ $24 pays a fat 7% div.that I think is solid. if/when energy prices recover or just cold weather sticks around I think a move back over $30 isn't out of the question. They are acquiring other suppliers and the last deal was all cash.Check that one out.
TSLA ? You still holding those puts? Couple of decent bounces this afternoon. Besides the weak market , some think Chevy Bolt may hurt TSLA. It will be more like 35k price tag and have 200 mile range. Enough for most anyone to commute to work and back.
TWTR puts still working. Stock down more today. One of these soon days we will get a bounce that will take the dogs like twtr up too so be careful. Feels like buyers are trying to dip a toe in the water this afternoon.
FB did you bank on that? Looked like it went your way +$1.50 off that bottom turn.
Yep good music in my day.
Had a loser on Friday cause I'm still subject to being stupid but Today:
GPRO 16 calls .33 to .48 + .15 Almost botched that trying to get another penny I missed .53 6 for 7 now.
GPRO SOLD 16c @ .48 form. 33 + .15 @ 40 % missed .54 too slow Brad too slow. It may have more in it but I've seen it plunge too many times.
FB going now. Might just be short covering but others bouncing too. See if it has any follow through. Sitting about break even on my GPRO calls.
NFLX trying to fade now. Wow nothing holdin up well this morning.
I wasn't ready in time to catch that one. Not going to chase it either.
EDIT BTO GPRO 16 calls @ .33
FB that looks promising if it can get green it may take off for you. GL
There are a few going against the grain but most continue weakness. Great but on TSLA. That's been beat up badly this morning. I looked at NFLX calls but my Daughter was leaving to go back to college this morning around 9:30 so I got off to slow start.
Gap and trap so far...china down 5% oil off again. Hard to trust this rally. What do you think?
LOL so this has turned into a Nigerian Oil scam? Can't be the same company. Website is dead. I still own some of this ticker. If these were connected this would have blown up months ago. I guess we can dream. oh well. Better luck with the Powerball. LOL