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After I finished my review on the STX trade, I saw an opportunity for a new trade on STX lol.


I have 16 contracts @ $1.84 w/ a 12 cent stop or so on the weeklies that expire by the end of the week. This is a very very very speculative position imo. Much more than I am used to but with the signal showing on the 1m chart, I don't need much time to be proven right/wrong. I am gonna be probably closing out at least a portion @ the end of the day if I am not stopped out.

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Charts up and running again. Watching WFT currently. Tried to break out earlier and encountered some price rejection. I think that it might continue to retrace lower intraday so I will be cautious in my entry, but I am bullish long term:


Bit the bullet and bought 12 contracts

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After I finished my review on the STX trade, I saw an opportunity for a new trade on STX lol.


I have 16 contracts @ $1.84 w/ a 12 cent stop or so on the weeklies that expire by the end of the week. This is a very very very speculative position imo. Much more than I am used to but with the signal showing on the 1m chart, I don't need much time to be proven right/wrong. I am gonna be probably closing out at least a portion @ the end of the day if I am not stopped out.

Stopped out of the trade and encountered $0.07 slippage at $16/cent. So on a $200 trade I lost like $315. Meh.

My Think or Swim account now has three day trades in two trading days so I have to be careful what I trade if I choose to use the account for anything else. Might transfer some money to a different account anyways, I don't need that much in this account since it is a backup with higher commission than my other accounts.

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Quick update.

Missed a pullback in NVDA:




Update on Alcoa (raised the profit target a little)

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One final trade on AA. Now lets see if the markets collapse tomorrow




STP: Doing good since my entry. Slow moving so far but looking good today

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Grabbed some STP calls and faded the gap lower to start the day.




So now, even if there is a selloff, the main trendline will have to be broken prior to me being stopped out



Edit:
Just got stopped out of MGM on a pullback intraday

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Grabbed some NVDA on the pullback.


Missed my shot to reopen a position on SD and to add to my position in BRCD. Ahhh well


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Missed my shot to reopen a position on SD and to add to my position in BRCD. Ahhh well

Got into SD on another slight dip


EDIT
Added to my BRCD position. Now have a total of 19 options



Stopped out of my WFT trade. Experienced some slippage as well

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Quick update.
Update on Alcoa (raised the profit target a little)

Took 7 contracts off the table. 4 contracts still open



Contributing factor for me closing out the position was a decent amount of profit taking on the short term timeframe

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Grabbed 9 contracts on SU. Got stopped out of a position last month but gonna give it a shot again

Here is the 4 hr chart



OTOH, here is the longer term pattern on the Weekly chart... I see a double bottom breakout that still hast the potential to happen:

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Took 7 contracts off the table. 4 contracts still open



Contributing factor for me closing out the position was a decent amount of profit taking on the short term timeframe

Completely flat on Alcoa


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Parabolic move overall.


I am glad that I let some options ride overall so I was able to take advantage of the continuation of the move higher. Huge up day for Alcoa. I am bullish on Basic Materials and I will look for another liquid representative to trade

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