I am a process guy. It’s the stuff that goes into getting results that is much more important to me and as a result our prop trading desk at SMB Capital. I love to see our guys do the right things. And the past two days have been examples of our traders doing the little things necessary to trade successfully. … Read More
Market In Trouble–July 2nd
After yesterday’s strong bounce the market failed to have a second consecutive up day. There was steady selling in multiple sectors all afternoon. Tech and Energy in particular got hit hard into the close. Energy stocks were selling off despite oil setting new time highs. If the tech selloff continues tomorrow we will breach the 2008 lows and may start … Read More
CHK- An important intraday level (71.35)
CHK was a great trading stock today. Proudly I can announce that are young traders killed CHK today. And CHK was particularly profitable trading the stock off of an important intraday level today at 71.35. CHK was up a ton and then started to show weakness. After the oil number was announced CHK failed at the 72 level, traded lower … Read More
Second Day (MYGN)
One of the plays that we teach our traders is called a Second Day Play. Today we had such a play with MYGN. MYGN had some bad news on one of their drugs that they were testing and the stock traded considerably lower yesterday. But into the close MYGN showed strength. It finished strong. However MYGN had trouble trading above 45.75: So … Read More
NKE second day play
Looking at NKE this morning. Yesterday it was a bit out of control on the open but the stock got easier after it broke the 60 level. I’m gonna be using that as my inflection point; above 60 will keep a long bias, below it will try to keep a short bias. Looking for a sell off to the 58 … Read More
re: my day
I focused on RIMM on the Open as it was In Play after reporting yesterday. I traded it on the short side once it dropped the 128 support level. It was fairly tame and became weaker as the day progressed. There seems to be support around 123.40. Traded NKE in the afternoon. Didn’t catch the initial short below 60 but … Read More
Run Fast Jump High (NKE)
Trading NKE this am. Below 62 will trade with a short bias if see selling. Down a ton on very light volume- bounce? The NKE specialist has a tendency to treat some orders unfairly. But when NKE is in play it is a very good trading stock. I have attached the chart of NKE below for some help. Good luck! … Read More
re: RIMM Followup
As I mentioned this morning I was looking to short RIMM on the open at resistance. I mentioned 140.50 as potential resistance. As it turned out 141 was resistance with many large offers. I shorted below 141 and covered on the pullback to 139. I didn’t catch the move down to 137.50. RIMM released earnings in the after hours. The … Read More