LIVE trading journal for 11/9: Trades

I took advantage of the strong burst of buying few minutes after the open to dump all my open positions and quickly move to cash. As I have mentioned in wallstreak, I have expected the gap down to be faded pretty quickly so I took advantage of that strong buying to get out of my positions except for MA and PCLN which I just purchased today.

This week was a very difficult week for me because I was completely out of sync with the market but I fought through by quickly consolidating my positions and reducing my position sizes down which limited the damage to my account.

In hindsight, I believe that what caused me to get into this tail spin is by trying to pick the turns/bottoms for some of the leader stocks VMW AAPL MA etc which is something that don't normally do.

I just know that something was off about my trading this week when I was not making much and even getting stopped/chopped on my positions. In short, I was fighting the tape the whole time.

Now on to my intra-day trades:

• bought FSLR at $216 in pre-market and sold it at $223+ right after the open
• bought AAPL at $174 and was stopped at $172.20
  
• shorted AAPL at $172 and covered before close at $166
• bought FSLR @ $209 and $213 and sold at $218