Oct 1

I’ve done way too many interesting things to fit into a 10 minute video… it’s a shame that I’m too lazy to write about it all, and youtube won’t let me talk about it all. The upside is, you don’t have to listen to it all, so that’s a plus for you, anyway. I need to learn how to be more concise.

I had to chop off the very end of this video to make it fit… that last trade on AXCM was for 8 cents of profit, from 15.98 to 15.90. It wasn’t really going anywhere, so I bailed.

So, now on my radar screen I have Signal-to-Noise, eotpro’s GVol_Osc, and an adaptive bollinger band-width+%b that I coded up. With the bandwidth, it’s easy to spot consolidating stocks without going to the charts. Very cool.

Additionally, I’ve started going through Jamie’s watchlist stocks, and my weekly scan stocks based on 60-minute charts at night. I use the same combination of eotpro indicators and my own indicators on these, to look for imminent moves. Today’s list was spot on (except for NVDA which I thought might be about to fall), though it proved very difficult to find a very tight day-trading style entry. I’ll see how it goes for the next few days.

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Nov 29

Tough day for Zoomie. Stopped out for break-even on Sigma Designs Inc (Nasdaq: SIGM):

sigm trade wednesday

… and then stopped out for a loss on Shanda Interactive Entertainment Ltd ADR (Nasdaq: SNDA). And then tried again and stopped out of SNDA. And then tried a third time and stopped out of SNDA. I remember when I was first trying daytrading, I went short SNDA and it went against me, and I was dumb enough to hold it overnight. It opened down big the next day and I even made a profit (but don’t you ever ever EVER try that–I was just lucky!). So, I will always have a soft spot in my heart for this stock, even if it did beat up Zoomie today.

snda trade wednesday

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