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"fitbit" are IPO-ing tomorrow - another to watch. with such a massive dose of market competition, one has to wonder about the viability. I'm expecting another pump and dump - but will revise as the day plays out.

nasdaq is a fickle beast. if facebook does well, then it pulls on every stock - sometimes up to a percent per related stock. the dow or sp would move maybe 0.2 - 0.4% compartively - say, if CAT does well then Alcoa might move 0.2% too. never pays to be short come earnings. i may have to...

Charting, volumes and rumours. Its like the psychic section of Womans Day around here...lol.

Im watching the latest GoPro (GPRO) IPO. Listed at $24 and currently double that. Looked like it would turn over Mon night, shooting star, only to gap up an add another 20% to the upside. This is just mania. Pure and simple. The fear of missing out. This is a stock with an IPO valuation of...

you might also note i'm not often long. all trades are fear based. short is the fear of losing money. long is the fear of missing out on money. buying is hope and pray for growth. selling is protectionist. one is a significantly stronger type of fear than the other, so i trade this - and...

To publicly answer the raft of recent PMs, im personally watching 3D printing stocks for shorts.

Thanks. Lost a lot of money early in the piece by over hedging, chasing trades and over -trading. Now I just wait for the sure fire bet and stick to my capital rules and Im reasonably safe.

i'm not a fan of using options to hedge. it's never clear cut - most spruikers say you can use 1 contract per contract but it actually works out to be about 3 contracts per 2 CFD positions. add your delta into that, especially if you're short and bye-bye profit - or be prepared to hang on for...

hi TPI - CommSEC are a market maker so this would make sense. the trick is to get a good CFD provider that isn't an MM - very hard with big positions. even harder when you're an Aus citizen trading US stocks out of London from a US LLC. i don't dabble in ASX CFDs. that's like going all in on...

i've been short TWTR up until Monday open just gone - got out at $30.75. that's a logged 4070% profit after taking profit all the way down from my entry. that was a 40:1 as well. God I love UBS London via Delaware LLC. i shouldn't need to explain that because if you have to ask, you...

i never hold any postion over the break. i used to risk the long, but you just dont know what news could come out boxing day over a closed market. often stocks rally over the break, buti wont be in. my next move will be long ASX200 in the run up to the election, i think it'll crack 4620.

well, im glad i'm out of the market. signals are choppy coming into christmas....nothing new, they always are. the walmart strike just gone could really, really effect the dow jones. i have no idea how the DJI broke above 13000 again, i suspect a pump'n'dump. watching.....watching......

that's the kind of thinking that lost me money in the first place. i was $$$ focussed, not %%% focussed. as such, i lost on a lot of bad trades and missed a lot of good ones. i find divorcing your mind from the $$$ removes the emotions attached with $$$. you can count how many hours you'd...

i trade with 20% of my available capital, as explained earlier, with no more than three trades at any one time. i normally only ever have 2 on the go. that means if i have $100k trading account, the first position will get $20k and the second position will get 20% of the remaining $80k...

thanks for the comments - this thread is really just to show people how and why i trade, also a nice public tell-all to stop my itchy trigger finger from getting away from itself....! when you say - "raise the stakes" - what exactly does that entail? oh and it wasnt 165% - it was half that -...

i took some profit on the second bounce off 135, and then rolled down my stop to 136.50. basically i just over doubled my money at 135, so i sold half and let my profit run. no sooner did i take some profit, the bloody thing bounced off exactly (!) 136.50 not once, but twice! so i'm out of...

i was filled at 137.80, sank to 137.50 and then was nearly stopped out before midday! stop is 139.50. back to my entry, sitting pretty. watching iwm closely.

if the SPY breaks 137.80 tonight its short to 128, with a minor IWM position to follow.

filled Thurs nite for $551 - 346% profit. went as low as $535 - i knew it was tanking. Friday saw $10 added back to the price for the Fri bounce i was talking about. indicators are shot - wont be looking at AAPL again for a while, i think. what IS interesting in the SP500/Russell2000...

some people may also note that the $VIX trading was halted. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-07/vix-halted VIX is the "Volatility IndeX" - it's a crude measure of "fear" in the market place. why this trade was halted? well, all the Wall St HFT algos use it to form their trade bias and...