Archive for September, 2008

Too late to short, to early to buy

The market opened with a big down gap. Gaps usually fill… sometime. All morning long I had this feeling that it really was too late to short but too early to go long. However, over noon the pace of the market shifted on the 5 and 15 min charts and CME (on the list of [...]

Upday

I expected an upday for today, since the daily charts in the indices were pretty extendend to the downside and yesterday was a consolidation day with some positive pace development in the 60 min ranges. 
The indices gapped up slightly and broke the morning high. At last, I could go look for a few nice longs. 
The [...]

Difficult day…

I could not find a lot in the gainers/losers list, but there was a gapper that made it to my list because of the great daily. 
 
Though I did expect the market to bounce strongly and I was not really looking for short this one was too good to pass up, but I did not expect [...]

Another hard day

It was hard to find decent setups again, but this one was nice. 
A great pattern, the avalanche, took the price for a nice ride. 2R seems almost ridiculous to cover most of the short… but usually it works very well!
 

I don’t like downtrending markets, but I might was well get used to it since it looks it is going to stay like that for a while to come.
Did one trade yesterday, and could not find a lot today. Must be because I kept looking for longs, and missed most of the nice short [...]