Rules of Trading

Here are a list of rules I am working on  as I get to know more about myself and my trading. These will change from time to time and I will continue to add them as time goes by.

1. Stick to your plan
2. Respect your stops. Do not exit pre-maturely before the stop is hit and no reason to exit
3. Use 2 min and 5min chart comparison to get a better entry. Then use the 5 min to exit to give you the patience
4. Before taking a trade, view the stock on a longer time frame , 15 min, 30 min and 1 hour on 2-3 days to get a bigger picture of the support and resistance areas.

Trade Review for 04/16/2015

Below are the stocks I was watching at the open. INVE, ROSG, NUGT and CLSN

 I took  a long on ROSG as I thought it was flagging with decreasing volume or forming the abcd pattern if you add the per-market part of the chart. I was wrong and instead of concentrating on the gapper strategy, I got distracted. The ideal entry for short would have been as shown by the green arrow below. This broke the red line, retested and failed. I am still learning on how to follow a plan and not deviate.

Trade Review for 04/15/2015

Below is a snapshot of my morning gapper list. I didn't see any solid set-up, but I took only trade.

BLDR was nearing the red line on my gapper list shown on the screenshot. I took the short at 13.09 anticipating the break of the lower line, but covered at 13.23. I felt it was about to squeeze. I would have looked at the big picture and put my stop at 13.41. 13.50 This was yesterday support and turned resistance point today.