$TWLO and my newest addition….

$TWLO and my newest addition….

The past 12 days have absolutely flown by and in a clouded haze from lack of sleep. If you are new to reading my blog or following me the reason why is due to the birth of our second daughter Scarlett Victoria on February 2nd.
I have had to take time to put trading aside to be a Mom first. We are blessed with a happy healthy little girl.  Having friends with a child in the ICU born 10 weeks early we know how lucky we are to have the ability to have her wake us up at home in the middle of the night.
Tending to a newborn is definitely a 24 hour job with breaks of maybe an hour or two.  I love helping and sharing with all of you to improve in trading. At this time I am not able to give trading my full effort and can’t depend on the hours of 930-12 to be baby free. So in the meantime, I look forward to sharing with you in the book. I had hopes to get it to the editor by the 10th, but our love came early.
So in my breaks I work on editing and writing and following one stock. TWLO
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A good trading buddy of mine mentioned Keltner channels and an interesting phenomenom about Bollinger Bands and stocks reactions. Here is a daily chart of TWLO and you can see the Keltner channel consists of the green lines and the Bollinger Bands are red. When the Bollinger bands dip inside the Keltner channel the last week of January the stock created a bottom and then ran up. The same is true for the middle of December but to the downside. Which can indicate that there will be movement one way or the other so to watch the momentum and capitalize on it.
I have also been watching options more as a potential to swing with less capital involved and make small gains. I’m also looking forward to Trade Ideas free guest webinar by ACTIVEDAYTRADER.COM  Jonathon Rose Wednsday evening on trading options less than .50 and looking for 10 to 1, 15 to 1  or better.
All this to say that I truly appreciate each and every one of you. I appreciate all the well wishes for our daughter’s birth. As a mom I love to nuture and see not only my daughters thrive but you as well.
When I started my journey, I just wanted to give back and share and I miss being present with you all on a daily basis. Please know this is temporary while my time commitment as a mom is number one priority right now. I will still do my weekly watchlists and hopefully my videos again soon.
In a short time the book will be available and my goal to be able to share with more people will be there. As always your future lies in your hands. The direction you go is based on your daily actions and intentions. So if you want change, no matter what it is then start with a small change today. If you fear something. Put that fear aside as we grow when we step out of comfort zones.
And if you reach out to me and I dont respond immediately please don’t take it personally as I might get to it at a 2 or 3 am feeding while reading on my phone.
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter (@jane_yul), Instagram (missairplanejane), LinkedIn and Facebook (@sugarairplanejane). carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
Working on my book  to be released this spring of 2017 available on Amazon. If you want me to email you as it is available shoot your name over to carpeprofit@gmail.com.
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room. There be an open house for just $8.88 for a  week  to test the full premium services starting Feb. 6th. 
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes. I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.
 

Sometimes the best trade is no trade and keeping on track to your goals

In the past week I have really seen a difference in my mental capacity with the constant waking up in the middle of the night around 2:30-3am at 38 weeks pregnant and not being able to get back to sleep. After the first couple of nights it happened I realized that my brain is not running at 100%
You know when someone asks you your cell phone number and you can’t remember it. Or you walk into a room and can not for the life of you remember why you went in there. Well that, as well as my hubby clueing me into this change lead me to watch more now until our little one’s birthday in the next two weeks. If I’m 100% rested and running all cylinders great. I will be full on active.
In the meantime I will continue to study the market, videos, research. Work on the book, blog, YouTube videos and testing out Stocks To Trade. They offer a one week trial for $1. Also Trade Ideas has a TI Premium  week open house Feb 6th  trial for $8.88.
It is not worth it to force a trade and not be at 100%. If you are feeling sick or off your game be honest with yourself. There will always be a good stock to trade and the market will be open the next trading day. In the beginning I felt like I was missing out…but now over time I see there are stocks to trade everyday.
In editing my book it brings me back my beginning and the thoughts I had as a newbie trader. I wanted it soooo bad. However rushing the process does not mean success will happen faster. You cant just jump into a trade because you want to trade.
It is important to understand the why behind it and to do that you have to study. Study the charts. Study the news and catalysts. This week has been a whirlwind as well with Trump’s first week as President. I will touch more on this an my weekly watchlist in my YouTube video coming on Sunday.
For example the pipeline deal is back on and oil spiked on the news and the Canadian dollar strengthened. Then the reality set in of the details and it could be more than a year for permits and everything to go through in order for the work to commence. So with all the executive orders we are seeing immediate jumps in one direction or another, but there is from what I see little follow through in the days after.
His executive orders are acting as catalysts it seems the day traders are in and out in a day with potential long term growth but nothing like the first day reaction.
The markets are always changing and Friday was an interesting one with the Dow down and Nasdaq up. Then the two are in disagreement it can be tough to trade. I was talking with a trading buddy and he was frustrated with the ambiguity of the market.
If you see things like this dont fight the market. It will always win. Be smart with stops mental or hard and stick to them. If the trade does not go your way then get out. Dont anticipate, but react to present price action.
I have from what the Doctor anticipates less than 2 weeks for our little love to be here and I really want to achieve that goal of sharing my book with you. So literally working day and night (when insomnia happens) to make that goal come true. 60% done with editing chapters so far. If you are interested in being put on the list to get the news shoot me an email at carpeprofit@gmail.com
When you want to make a change in your life it starts with a positive mindset first that you can do it and second an action daily to make that change happen. So if you want to see change do it today. I even recommend a post it note on your mirror for the morning to ask yourself what are you going to do to change your future today? The work has to initiate within you! You control your future with your daily decisions!
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter (@jane_yul), Instagram (missairplanejane), LinkedIn and Facebook (@sugarairplanejane). carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
Working on my book  to be released this spring of 2017 available on Amazon. If you want me to email you as it is available shoot your name over to carpeprofit@gmail.com.
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room. There be an open house for just $8.88 for a  week  to test the full premium services starting Feb. 6th. 
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes. I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.

$SGY $ETRM $GLBS $ZYNE all have what in Common?

$SGY $ETRM $GLBS $ZYNE all have what in Common?

These stocks, when the timing is right have rocking momentum to the up and downside. This all comes from being lower float stocks and typically having a highly shorted float percentage to them.
SGY Float :4,924,000
ETRM:1,613,000
GLBS: 3,662,100
ZYNE:6,537,500
When the momentum starts the chart as you will see tends to spike at open, have a nice little pullback and then surge again before lunch. Here are two different stocks that ran this week and the similar set up that I am talking about. SGY on the left and ETRM on the right


As you can see there is momentum right off the bat typically due to news of some sort and the inital shorts that see this happening and start to buy to cover their positions. So the upward movement happens with shorts buying, their stops being executed and also new buyers with momentum. Then you have the new buyers that take some profits and some shorts that get on board. The stock sells off and finds a new support, consolidates and runs again with many times surging through the previous high and burning more shorts in a squeeze.
As with GLBS from last week I was long from 6.06 on Friday then it was halted with news that was speculated from their prior press releases to dilute the overall number of shares of the company and drop the value of the stock. Well the news released after the halt said that this secondary financing was not going through and although the company in the long term needs to find financing the immediate drop in share price was not due to happen. More than 50% of the float was short from Friday and when the fear set in on Monday it drove it right back up and then some.
The same has been true for SGY going into friday. On Thursday there was news that the company was a good long term value buy and the share price rose some. Then the short float that sold the chart on Thursday was 59% of the volume. I find these numbers with shortsqueeze.com premium service. To me it is well worth the small monthly fee to see the % short sold of the volume from the day before. This is a sample of the information that I am talking about. SGY Thursday data on left and Friday data on the right.

I will definitely be watching SGY going into Monday for more squeeze potential because it has held its value even with 48% of Friday’s volume being short. That means that roughly 2.7 million shares wer sold short on Friday. It does not take into account the momentum buyers and sellers that rode it up and took profits along the way. The stock has been a multiday spiker when you look left in the chart and when the momentum is there to the upside it can cause major runs. And this stock has been recommended as a good value stock for the longer term investor and it has seen two good days of upward momentum and the value investor would love a nice 30% return like this has been showing lately.
These stocks are great because you can take large percentage moves in a day, but the action is very fast and hard to set a hard stop as they tend to get executed by Market Makers with the volatiliy very quickly.
I honestly trade these stocks uber conservatively and take profits way too soon because I am cautious about them pulling back. And what goes up can go down just as fast in the low float world. When there is demand it runs up quickly and when people sell and want to dump their shares it can go down just as fast if not faster.  I try to always sell into strength as it is easier to get a fill with buyers. When it is dropping down it can be hard to get a limit to execute if you are not finding people to buy.
Now you ask how do I find these stocks that are moving like this. Well it is a custom alert alert that I use with Trade Ideas. It is amazing software and you can create alerts for any style of trading. Everyone has their own type of alert system that they enjoy using whether it is an email service, squawk service (like Benzinga) or text alert or chat room. I enjoy the audible part of Trade Ideas as I know I’m an audbile learner and I can easier type the ticker without having to filter through alerts visibly and take my eyes off my charting screen.
Everyone at some point or another gets the news to find stocks moving but it is the ones that are able to find them in the beginning of the movement that are at an advantage. Being late to the party can end up in losses over and over to the long side. These short float stocks are great when they crack if you can get shares, but be cautious of the the short squeeze against you.
If you have been following me for a while or just new to following me I am 2.5 weeks away from the estimated due date of my second daughter. I am working very hard to get my book off to the editors before she arrives. In the meantime before delivery I will keep all of the blogging and tweeting and videos up as long as possible, but there might be a couple weeks where I take a break to take care of the new bundle of joy. I have a passion for stocks and sharing and helping others grow.
Our own successes come from the energy and dedication we put forward to making our dreams reality.
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter (@jane_yul), Instagram (missairplanejane), LinkedIn and Facebook (@sugarairplanejane). carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
Working on my book  to be released this spring of 2017 available on Amazon. If you want me to email you as it is available shoot your name over to carpeprofit@gmail.com.
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room. There be an open house for just $8.88 for a  week  to test the full premium services starting Feb. 6th. 
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes. I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.

ETFs & $DWTI, $UWTI $DGAZ and $UGAZ to grow my 401k

ETFs & $DWTI, $UWTI $DGAZ and $UGAZ to grow my 401k

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In the past year of trading I also discovered 3x ETFs or ETNs to really grow my 401k. Last year from Febuary to June I gained 100% in my 401k trading UWTI and DWTI. The ETFs are great because the 3x means that the volatility and price action tends to be 3 times as strong in the trend direction.
Now this can be quite a benefit as long as you are on the right price action. If you get caught in the wrong direction it can also eat away at capital very quickly. So I what I learned is to make sure to protect that capital with a stop.
I will usually go in with a bracket of a trailing stop on the sell side and move it tighter once I’m in the money or above my entry price. I like to do that to make sure that I lock profits and protect capital.
Last year oil was at all time lows and so trading DWTI and UWTI was  very profitable. This year I saw the all time high in the price of Natural Gas and with my RSI extreme knowledge and knowledge general of price action I traded DGAZ and UGAZ.
I took a nice 29% profit overnight when the Natural Gas price pulled back from highs however I now know I was conservative and could have made almost 85% in 4 days.  Once it looked like DGAZ was at an extreme I went long UGAZ and my entry was actually one day too early.
There is always room to learn something new and how to trade them. I like ETFs for the 401K as I like to just “crockpot” the trades or swing them with the bracket orders. The natural gas numbers I know are now announced every Thursday at 1030 EST and usually there is an extreme reaction one way or the other based on the news. As I see the extreme happens like a stock spike and then you can trade the reverse to get a quick intraday trade.
The same occurance happens when Oil numbers are announced on Wednesdays. For now these are the only two that I have traded and I am starting to learn how they react to news and price action.
As with stocks once you start to study and action see the patterns of that particular financial instrument you can see ways to grow your account where your risk is mitigated.
I am definitely not the be all master of stocks, but I enjoy helping to share my experience to help others in their journey. When you put in the work and continue to learn you can only get better. I’m also someone that believes the more you share the more it comes back to you and I look to help others succeed. There is great satisfaction in hearing that others have profited or learned along the way with a little motivation from my journey
This week has been a busy one with finishing up chapter one on the book and 9 more to go before sending it off to the editor. I can’t wait to share it with all of you. IT is not just my experience, but others as well which is what really helped me in the beginning.
I am officially 3 weeks away from my little one’s due date on Monday so I might be a little MIA once she is born to give you a heads up. With my first I had high blood pressure and had an emergency c section 1 week early, so praying this one has no issues and she is born naturally. Out of my control like market price action and I will react based on what is presented to me.
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter (@jane_yul), Instagram (missairplanejane), LinkedIn and Facebook (@sugarairplanejane). carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
Working on my book  to be released this spring of 2017 available on Amazon. If you want me to email you as it is available shoot your name over to carpeprofit@gmail.com.
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room. Discount Code for Sunday and Monday for MLKDAY for up to 20% off and there will be an open house to test the full trial starting Feb. 6th. Stay tuned for link for open house.
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes. I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.

Watching $PTLA into the last trading week of 2016

This past week has been another whirlwind. I have been working hard at getting the book rocking and rolling along. Set up a trademark and did 2 more interviews with women. One in Toronto and one in Dubai. It is amazing to hear their journies and I look forward to sharing them all come publication date.
As for trading the week had strongward upward momentum for positive stocks and the loser stocks seemed to continue a downtrend.
$PTLA was a huge winner with their drug being approved. It went up 30% after the 2:12pm announcement that the FDA approved the drug. The last time we saw a huge run like this was $SRPT back in September on the 19th where it went up 80% in one day. I’m curious to see if the momentum continues tomorrow as there was the long 3 day weekend for the positive news to set in as everyone chatted away with eggnog and spirits.
My analysis and my opionion as I’m not a financial advisor is the shorts did not want to hold onto their short position A. over the long holiday weekend or even the last week of the year. There is less volume during these two weeks however if it is a lower float stock they leave themselves open to disaster if away from their trades as a short swing trade.
As for the losers dropping more many longer term investors are selling off for capital gains tax purposes. So this can lead to some bargain hunting. It was Dec 21st last year that I bought WYNN around 51 I believe and then by March it was back to 100. I was way conservative and only took about $6 profit on my shares.
I went out of my comfort zone on Friday and tried trading live with a webinar of people listening in and sharing my screen of Trade Ideas alerts. It was far more challenging than I expected it to be. I believe it is because in that hour I wanted to do a live trade and also answer questions. For me if just isnt possible to talk through a trade well and field questions. I went long CTAS and got out at my stop. If I was by myself I think I might have given it the wiggle room it needed to run up roughly $3 from my entry.
So I applaud all those that have their own trading room and are successful at teaching others and trading at the same time. It will be a little bit for me to get that under my belt.
So for now as you know I’m 6 weeks away from my guess delivery week of second week in February and the hormones have kicked in to cause me to nest.
All of a sudden it was….Oh I need to buy diapers, we need to move furniture, I need to get her clothes out and clean, dont forget the hospital bag.
All these things swimming through my head at the moment, so I know that I must trade smart this week as our baby is definitely on my brain.
I hope that you had an amazing holiday weekend with family and friends. That is what life is about. The love that you share with the people around you. Money makes life easier, but when you are in your grave it is the time you shared with people that matter that is more important than the size of your bank account.
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room. Discount Code through Tuesday Dec 27th is HOLLYDAY for up to 25% off. Next week long Open house is coming in January for full pro trial for more than likely less that $10 to sample the software.
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.
 

Another Crazy week with $ALXN, $AKAO $UHS,and $JWN

This week was another crazy busy week. In trading $ALXN  I was rocking with the bottom bounce on Monday and then the nice reversal all week to end up $10 from the bottom on Tuesday at 110. I traded both the stock and options for a nice profit on the name.
With Options I am learning it is even more important to cut the losers quickly because it can grow into an exponential loss with the expiration date cutting the value of the option as well as the stock moving against you.
$AKAO had some great movement on Monday and I traded it for nice gains and went long just before close as a strong stock with momentum looking for the gap up on Tuesday morning. Well at 4:01 I have a trading buddy with Benzinga News and I got a message they were going to do an offering. I reacted to the news and sold for a loss after hours.
$UHS was another great winning stock I traded both long and short on Wednesday. I was timing the momentum well and banked on reading the chart based on RSI and Bollinger bands.
Wednesday was another big day as I was honoured to be interviewed by Jeremy Newsome of Real Life Trading. Jeremy like myself has the goal to really help others profit and learn in the trading world. It is coincidental that we met up through one of my followers Dee who also lives in Nashville. The internet is a wonderful thing. Here is the interview.
Wednesday evening I also had the pleasure of doing another interview for my book about female traders with Latoya who also happens to be a moderator for the Real Life Trading room and has two little ones in her office/playroom while she trades. It is so amazing to hear others’ stories about how they made it to become successful in the trading world.
My book is in the process of being written and hopefully off to the editors come Jan. 1st. My goal is to be able to tell you guys it is available in print and ebook by Middle of February when our little one is due.
Thursday I traded $UHS and I was not trading the chart but trading with hope. It does happen to me sometimes too. When my mind is not in the right place and I think no this stock has gone up so much it must come down. I shorted and exited at stops then resorted and exited at stops and I was trading the wrong side of it throughout the day. So I had a red day on Thursday. Sure enough it was Friday with the trend of the market that UHS ended up
Friday which tends to be my strong day started out rough with the internet crashing before open. OK got that fixed. Then my charting software half of the charts wanted to work. Frustrating and then I was in bounce positions on OFIX and AGIO my broker site went down. I was in the midst of setting up limit orders to execute for the bounces and it went down. So I called in the orders and made a bit. Then I saw JWN on the biggest losers list. In my head it was so oversold and it needed to bounce. So I went long at 11. Well it continued down and I got distracted and ended up taking a $1 loss/share. It ended up being another red day based on JWN.
Overall another great week of profits bringing my month profits to roughly 5k. Not as good as some months this summer but. I am trying to get a lot done before our second daughter is born.
I am loving being able to share my experience to help empower women to step into the trading world. The biggest hurdles we have in life are the ones in our mind. So once we break down that fear and take little steps into the uncomfortable and move forward we make progress. Many time progress comes from stepping into the uncomfortable world and learning something you thought impossible. Thats when the impossible becomes possible.
Super excited about the book and I have a new fire in me to really make it happen to help others. It is a tool I wish that I had at my fingertips when I started really day trading a year ago.
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room. Next week long Open house is coming in January for full pro trial for more than likely less that $10 to sample the software.
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.
 
 

Humble beginnings to inspiring other women to trade.

Humble beginnings to inspiring other women to trade.

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It was roughly one year ago, November 2015, that I began my daytrading for the second time with small amounts of money. I was still struggling to figure out the best trading strategy. At this time I also read the book Momo Traders and it inspired me to then work on reaching out to more women about trading.
I realized at that time, there are not many women traders out there to help encourage women to be active traders. So I began working on a book about female traders. Hopefully this will be coming out early 2017 and I will of course keep you informed. There are definitely female traders but not many that want to break down the mental barriers to help others succeed at trading.
I felt the best way to help others is to share my experience along the way and that is what the Women Empowering Women Seminar by Trade Ideas was all about this past weekend. You can view the full recording here  Literally I started as an aspiring day trader in my basement office not knowing much and now I’m honored to help inspire others.
It was roughly one year ago when I opened my Twitter account and I went to my husband….Look Honey I have 10 followers. As I began sharing and blogging and tweeting everything grew. I began with Twitter and then people started asking questions, so I began sharing and I thought a blog is an efficient way to answer the questions that I received from multiple people in one forum.
Thus this blog was born and created to share to answer questions that I receive often. This past September I went to the Trader and Investors Summit and was honored by Timothy Sykes with my success thus far as a female trader. My hubby is a big YouTube fan and so I began doing my weekly video about my week in review and answering more questions as well. Slowly as more questions come in I try to film the answers.  I also want to share the real point of view not the shiny happy everything is great trading view.
My openess to share my journey led me to being the keynote speaker at the event sponsored by Trade Ideas. It was an absolute honor to share my journey that has been just a year so far. I have big visions for helping more women put the fear aside as far as learning how to trade.
The biggest hurdles in acheiving any dream is the one you present in your mind.  Once you put your fear aside and start putting your energy towards your goals and dreams you see you future changing before your eyes. Day by day all the efforts you put out create your new future. Before you know it you have changed your life to be living your dream as reality.
 
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room.
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.

$GLBS first experience being in a halt while holding shares shorts making 61% profit on capital.

$GLBS first experience being in a halt while holding shares shorts making 61% profit on capital.

In the beginning of my day trading  journey using Timothy Sykes Tools I learned all about pump and dumps, but I never had the opportunity to short one. Well today with Interactive Brokers I was able to get shares. I tried to short when it was up at $8 but there were no shares available. The chart was looking over extended being up 100% on the day and knowing how the shippers have not been able to hold their spikes from DRYS a couple weeks ago I thought this is a great short. glbs-chart
Well I got shares to short at 7.17. I was trying for 700 shares and only got a partial fill at 500. Then as soon as I got my notification that the shares were sold I went to check the stock and boom it was halted.
Immediately I went and googled Nasdaq halted stocks an sure enough there was GLBS with the T12 code : Pending more news. Then there were rumors on Twitter it was going to be halted for 30 days. The last news that I had seen was there was a new executive joining the team and it skyrocketed from $3.80 up to$8 10:50-12:20. With such a dramatic increase in an hour and a half it seemed that is should pull back. So I thought this is a perfect opportunity for a short so I put in the request.
I was a bit hesitant that the stock was going to go up but it had already been halted twice during the day going up and usually I see the third time it tends to sell off. So as soon as I had the shares I shorted.
The afternoon was exciting while patiently waiting to hear why this stock doubled. The last time I was in a stock halted pending news it was ENF where there was news of them being bought out by a Japanese company and sure enough this one spiked once the news was released that the offer to buy them was confirmed.
So not knowing the news was a bit tense but exciting. Knowing that DRYS had just been through a similar situation and sure enough after the halt the stock opened down 50%. As soon as I saw the update on the Nasdaq site for the stock to reopen at 3:35 pm I went in search of the news that was released.
I found the news that they were due to issue shares at 1.60. I had an order in earlier to cover at 4.17  for a conservative $3 a share profit. Well I then saw on level 2 that the sellers lowered their Ask price to 4 so I dropped my buy to a more agressive 2.17.
I was actually on the phone with my husband when it opened and it was open at 2.88 for roughly 18 seconds before they halted the stock again. I thought ok it will continue dropping further so I was even more aggressive with 1.87 for my covereage. It reopened and started dropping. I saw it going down and thought I don’t need to be greedy I’ve already made over $2000 on a $3585 position. So I set a trailing stop for .17 and let it work. No matter what happened if it continued down I would still profit. So my position locked in profit at 2.795.
It was an exhilarating experience to have the opportunity to short a pump and then have it halt and go in the perfect direction and open with not a 50 cent gap but almost $5 gap.  I only wish my whole position had been filled. A great trade with 61% return on investment the same day.
As I always say Carpe Profit one trade at a time you will see them grow your account. The trades will not always provide a 61% return but they all grow your account.
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For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
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Another Crazy Trading week with shipper stocks in specific $DRYS and my interpretation of $RJETQ docket 1189.

Another Crazy Trading week with shipper stocks in specific $DRYS and my interpretation of $RJETQ docket 1189.

As many of you saw this week DRYS went absolutely Insane going from $4 to $115. Now this is really a power of low float stocks that have high demand. Simple supply and demand. When there are only 386K shares available and the buyers hear it is moving and more and more people start buying the shares become more expensive. Since it was a low float stock there weren’t many shares to get borrow for shorting so as it sold off the same drop happens to the downside.
This stock is one that changed lives in a great way and a devastating way if you were on the wrong side of the trade. For all those that made great money. I applaud you and good job! For those that lost money. Analyze the trade and see what went wrong. Did you have fear of missing out or too large a position for the large $ swings the stock took.
DRYS was a stock in the shipping sector and as many saw when one stock in a sector is moving it will tend to have sympathy plays for other stocks in the same sector. So DCIX, TOPS, ESEAS and others that even had Ocean in the name all reacted sympathetically and shot up with their low floats.
Once DRYS was unhalted and dropped so sympathetically did the other Shipping stocks.
You will see these sorts of reactions when a major retailers, chain restaurants, gold stocks, or even cyber security stocks are affected. So it is good to know what stocks are in certain sectors. A free source to find them is on Finviz.com and you go under groups, overview and then simply click on the sector and those stocks will come up. It is a matter of preference how you like to look at them to analyze the information in a linear or chart fashion. Check it out and play around. The more you look for different ways to find information the more you learn along the way.
My biggest learning expereince and painful one at that was with RJETQ this week. They filed the good news that they will be emerging from Chapter 11 and then the bomb was revealed in their reorganization plan.
As you probably know I had avidly been following the whole process and looking forward to the filing of their emergence as a positive reaction show in the stock price to profit. Well this time around with an airline stock I did not have the same success as the American Bankruptcy emergence.
Here is the bad news for any share holders of RJETQ found in court docket 1189. Per my interpretation of the legal jargon. It took a couple steps for me to come to the conclusion that selling is the best option as from my understanding. If the court accepts this plan December 8th the stock could be worthless in my opinion
Step 1 was looking at 6.8
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Where they say that All stock should be cancelled and cease to exist. I went back to research what the American Airlines Chapter 11 plan said and sure enough it had the same language. They usually cancel all the stock and if they do convert will reopen with a new ticker.
So next step was to look up the New Common Stock Interests.
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So from reading this it became clear unless the shareholders are part of the Class 3(a) then we do not receive anything once this version of the plan is accepted. So the next step is to see how as a shareholder we are classified. Onto researching as a stock holder in the explanation of terms from the beginning of the docket.
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And I found that as an equity interest (which was the verbiage used in the American Plan) we are considered Interest in this document. So then onto see how the “Interest” of RAH is considered underclassification.
 
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And I see here that it comes full circle back to Clause 6.8  that all existing Interests shall be deemed cancelled and shall not receive or retain any property on account. Now I’m not a lawyer by any stretch and this is 100% my interpretation of the document.
As a result I sold my full position of RJETQ on Friday for a painful loss of 58%  which is my largest to date since my day trading career began. It was not an easy pill to swallow. You can ask my husband I was really upset to loose the capital for our family. This however was not a day trade and a long term swing. I think back to the big gain that I had with the American Bankruptcy where I turned 25K into 250K and realize it is small in comparison.
My lesson learned from this is be flat before the emergence from bankruptcy filing is already filed because the shareholders are the bottom of the list. As with every loss big or small or breakeven  I look for the lesson to be able to move forward and not get stuck in the past.
When your head is busy thinking about what you should have done it is not clear to move forward with making in the moment decisions to trade well.
For Monday I will watch for the most part and  I have my swing  of LOPE short from 56.14. I’m  looking for it to break down further as it is looking overextended on the daily chart and Friday was a second red day for the stock since the High of 57.47. I have a smaller share position to allow for more room on my stop.
 
I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room.
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.
 
 

What a crazy trading week with the Election

What a crazy trading week with the Election

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As a newer day trader with roughly 1 year of experience, I am learning to trade big events with caution. Trading through two major world events of Brexit and the most recent US Election has taught me not to anticipate but trade the action. Each day no matter what you must trade what the market is doing and how it is reacting instead of what you think it will do.
It was interesting to see the market react ahead of the the two major events and price the reaction into the market. With Brexit the markets anticipated Britain staying and so the market rallied and then the news came out with a reverse result and boom the market reacted with a drop.
Well the same is true for the US Election. When Hilary was announced to be investigated by the FBI the overall US markets began declining. Then the FBI cleared her and the markets began to rally again. As you can see from the chart about the market sentiment was that she was going to win and the market would recover. All was going well until the Election results started coming in.
I know of futures traders that banked big time on this one event. They sold short before the results and once Trump was leading the market futures began to drop down to the almost limit down maximum of 5%.Which would have potentially halted the markets for the next day. So When I went to bed around 2 am the markets were down roughly 4.6%  I think it might not have been the fact Trump was leading but the uncertainty of the results.
Since this was the first time I had traded through and election and also a dramatic one at that I knew Wednesday would be a day to trade super cautiously. When I woke up I saw that A. Trump was the confirmed winner and B. that the futures markets had started to recover.
You can see just how volatile Tuesday night was on the chart. Looks more like an EKG reading than the type of chart you want for a major index. So it tanked overnight came back to open up slightly. Dropped off again and then rallied the rest of the day. A day of major extremes in the market and with my style of reversal trading a great day to capture the reversals. I traded both long and short positions on Wednesday.
It is definitely possible to profit in any market any day, but it is all about your diligence. The riskiest time to every trade is your entry. So you want to make sure that you have a good stop either mental or if you are like me and need hard stops then a hard one. Once it goes in your direction I like the strategy of using a stop to protect those profits if it flips against me or taking 50% off at a consolidation point and a stop for the rest to protect the profits. It is always better to take 50% profit at a resistance point than zero profit and have it go back against you for a loss.
There is no need to be a superstar and try to rock each and every trade. The best way to rock each trade is to take a profit on it. Big or small they all grow your account. That’s why I always say Carpe Profit. Be happy with any and every gain. Over time you will become better at understanding the price action and capture more of the move. The stops will let you trade cautiously while locking profits.
The biggest hurdle each trader faces is themselves. Managing yourself will improve your trading. That is why I partnered with Mandi Pour Rafsendjani and we are doing a very valuable 6 week live or recorded Webinar Training about Day Trading and Trading Mindset. They go hand in hand and in understanding yourself you will be able to be a better trader. A inexpensive investment in yourself that will only improve your trading.
If you have been following me for a while you know that I enjoy helping others improve. It is amazing to hear the transformations that I have helped to inspire happen. We can all do what we put our minds to on a daily basis when we direct our energy there. It is a choice of daily decisions. How bad do you want that change in your life. Like a couch potato at 400 lbs saying I want to lose weight and become more active but day after day the same habits of diet and exercise are there. We make choices with our actions and through those actions we see change to make our dreams come true.
When you have a dream or change in life you want to see, it starts with yourself. Your daily actions and decisions determing if you will reach that goal. Each little step will help you get there. Give it time, be kind to yourself and acknowledge the little achievements along the way. Each small one gets you to the end goal. Each day is precious and you need to be kind and positive to yourself to get your end result of happiness in life in whatever form happiness comes to you.
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I love hearing feedback from you. It makes my trading more personal and I like to hear how I can help you. If you have questions or comments you can contact me here or on Profitly, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. carpeprofit@gmail.com or YouTube
The tool I use for scanning and alerting is Trade Ideas who offer an always free trading room.
For my charting and level 2 I use Equityfeed.
This blog is for information purposes I am not a registered securities broker-dealer or an investment adviser. The information here is not intended as securities brokerage, investment or as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund.