Tuesday, July 22, 2008

7/22 Day Trades - GS, ENER, BAC

As expected, the market opened up very weak following yesterday's slew of disappointing tech earnings. However, it wasn't long before buyers came right back in. If you were nimble enough to buy the weakness, you were very handsomelly rewarded at the close. I took the following trades:

BAC - I bought these calls for both a daytrade and swingtrade. Again, a nice narrow range offering a low-risk entry. As you'll see, I anticipated the break-out too early and my daytrade got stopped out. Jamie from Wall St. Warrior likes to enter following a hammer that flushes out the weak hands prior to the break-out. I was the weak hand for this position today...
Bought @ 30.10, Aug 25 Call
Risk @ 29.90
Sold @ 29.90
Loss - $0.30 on the Calls - I was holding 50 Calls thereby leaving $10k+ on the table. Damn, I thought I could catch Trader Stewie with this one! :)

On a brighter note...I also doubled-up on my Aug 30 swing trade position planning to hold overnight but sold on the strength at the close:
Bought @ 30.10, Aug 30 Call
Risk @ 29.90
Sold @ 32.50
Profit - 1.45 on the calls


ENER - A semi-hat-tip to the traders at Wallstreak.com. I entered on the break of the opening range low (66.00) but the stock found support at 65.00 with the reversal hammer so I tightened up my stop and took a loss:
Bought @ 66.00, Aug 85 Put
Risk @ 66.50
Sold @ 66.10
Loss - $0.20 on puts




GS - I found a semi-low risk entry on the break of $183.50:
Bought @ 183.50, Aug 160 Calls
Risk @ 181.90
Sold @ 187.00
Profit - $3.00 on calls







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