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, October 16, 2008

10/14/08: AKAM - Gap play


Macro setup: Daily Gap-up into resistance, and filling prior (Gap-down). A gap into a supply area on a downtrending daily stock almost always calls for a bearish bias, especially when the prior 2-days were bullish.

Entry setup: After establishing it's opening 5-minute range, the stock setup a narrow range 5-minute bar. After taking out the high of that 5-minute bar, supply took over and the stock shot down very quickly. I shorted right at the "break" at 16.77 with a stop over the morning high.

I covered half near the gap-fill, then covered the back half after it bounced off the next level of support around 15.70.

A nice profitable trade to start the day!

Check out the chart...