A Pete Rose day for TraderHank

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Today’s trading kind of reminded me of one of my old time favorite baseball players Pete Rose.  Today was nothing but small base hits, I had to steal a few bases and finally with my play in WMT short, I had to knock down the catcher to score, wow, what a day it has been for traders.  I found WMT on my daily gap down continuation list from last Thursday 5/15.  Price in WMT actually gaped up but sold off hard into the base, then bounced but price could not make another higher high.  Price then sold off hard to test the lows again before bouncing off the lows and closing with a sold green bar to the upside just above the PDC.  The next bar was a red topping tail bar that I shorted with a full share size @ .59 cents, right at 10:30 reversal time.  I covered 1/3rd at my chicken target of .49 cents and was forced to cover another 1/3rd @ .52 cents.  At this point with a 1/3rd share size left, I was looking for an add and reduce area which soon triggered by 11:00 am just below WMT’s PDC where I went to a full share size again.  After a small red doji type bar over a 5 minute period, price started to move down nicely but then on the 4th red bar down closed as a green bottoming tail bar (COG) that I was forced into selling 1/2 of my shares.  The next bar put in another red topping tail bar that I added back shares to my play and also reduced my stop.  Then, another green bar formed with a topping tail that was followed again by a red engulfing bar allowing me to add even more shorts to my play.  I had my mind made up that I was going to hang with this play to the target @ .36 cemts.  After 10 minutes more price took out the top of one of my red bars where I had to cover 1/2 of my shares, but then I got the reversal bar that I was looking for and price headed lower in a flurry hitting my target @ .36 where I covered 1/2 of the shares that I had left.  After a V type bottom formed with a green doji style bottoming tail, I decided the target had been hit and I covered the last of my shares @ .38 cents.  Wow, I was working it, but I’ll take the nice 1 R profit on the play!

WMT 05212014
WMT 05212014

   

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