Friday, September 5, 2008

Patience pays

In case you were thinking I was an expert trader who never makes mistakes, let me disabuse you of that notion.

Two days ago I was set to short URRE when my autotrigger got activated at 3.30, man I was stressed to see it go up to 3.68, I almost had a heart attack, but it dropped and eventually fell below 3.30.

Today I was set to short TGIC and had the short order forced in at 3.80. Since the open price was 2.80 I felt that this was no way close to being triggered. Well if you watched it you know that my price got triggered within 5 minutes- holy crap. But as fast as it rose it fell back again to below 3.80*, I felt stupid telling Muddy that my short price was 3.80, that is like failure. Someone shorted it from the hod. I think that is reckless, but nonetheless this trader nailed it and grabbed the most gain.

*Updated to fix prices

1 comment:

P said...

What was your stop level for URRE, and what is your methodology for taking losses?
3.3 to 3.68 is around a 10% loss. It could have easily gone up further.