Aug 19, 2008

Hammered

Not a good way to come back from a short break and certainly not a way to celebrate my birthday. Everything I shorted today turned on my. DB, AIG, WYNN and DRI... all losers. Some were decent winners before unleashing their ugliness on me.

Oh well, I've had a nice run and, mentally, I'm good with down days.

5 comments:

Bubs said...

It was a tough day. I didn't trade today but was watching the market and nothing had much follow through. Probably best to cut down size until the volume returns.

bl said...

IFY,
Short the financials that don't gap down: ewbc, or bad news leh. FSYS 4,11/15" 4/30"

OONR7 said...

bubs: good advice although I've done well on low volume days over the course of the previous 2 weeks. A lot depends on the volume of the particular stock I'm trading. I was fortunate yesterday as I reduced my risk size for DRI as I wasn't in love with the setup and then another entry was pretty tight so I just decided to reduce risk as well.

TraderAm said...

Happy Birthday.

OONR7 said...

merci traderam