Mar
5
Safer or Riskier? DIA Options Trading
March 5, 2008 | Comments Off
Between yesterday and today I tried a new strategy I had never tried before. Instead of buying stocks or stock options, I decided to watch the DIA Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). This fund tracks the DOW 30 performance. Both yesterday and to a lesser extent where very volatile days. The DOW climbed down yesterday more [...]
Sep
10
Analysis of a Trade (WB): Volume Bars
September 10, 2007 | Comments Off
(This article contains the analysis of a trade. Just my thoughts after a day of trading. No trading theorems, laws, or concrete advice. My views may change in the future. Just think of it as a journal page, just what a blog is.)
Today I have learned important lessons in my day-trading [...]
Aug
31
Which Stocks To Day Trade?
August 31, 2007 | Comments Off
This month I have been trading mostly in Intel Corporation (INTC), Cisco (CSCO), Wachovia Bank (WB), Starbucks (SBUX) and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) (funny, but SBUX and JAVA doesn’t have anything to do with each other). The main question I could ask myself is why did I chose them? The answer is simple: [...]
Aug
18
Day Trading Lessons Learned– Halfway Through August
August 18, 2007 | Comments Off
Since I am not working in a traditional 9 to 5 job anymore, decided that rather than eating up my interests and dividends, I would try to live out of very short term trading of good but volatile stocks – while I am in between contracts. I consider myself an above average long [...]
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