TRADING PLAY POSTS (below)

Below you will see (sporadic) posts of trades I have taken, with write-ups of each. Although most posts displayed are of winning trades, please know that I "do" make my share of losing trades.

Look through the following trade-shots to see if you would have made the same trades, and if (according to your trading plan) you would have managed them differently, for better or worse.

In any case, my mind-set has been captured in these posts and hopefully you can take something from them.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

7/30/08: AHG - Gap play


Macro setup: Daily Bear Gap under hourly pivot and prior Bullish daily bar ("Bull"-shocker).

Entry setup: After establishing it's opening 5-minute range, the stock setup a 1' Sell-setup at the declining s8ma (simple 8-period moving average) with a series of narrow-range bars. The stop-loss was very tight, giving the opportunity for a low-risk, high potential gain trade.

As usual, I covered my position with multiple exits (which is in my plan, but not to be lead by example) so I did not realize the full potential profits. But, a good winning trade none-the-less.

Check out the chart...

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