Author Archives: TraderHank

Two smaller plays in ALL and FB get the job done…

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Tricky little day today with the start of earnings season, not a lot of quality gaps to play but I did notice that Facebook was gapping up this morning after consolidating for most of the day yesterday.  FB gapped up … Continue reading

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Your management can make you a profitable trader!

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 After the trading day yesterday, I was so disgusted with myself with my poor management on my play of ADBE.  I left 1/2 of the move on the table and for some reason I covered my entire lot @ 63.94 … Continue reading

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Prior Day’s close

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I’ve been trading for the last 8 months without moving averages and have not missed them at all.  They are your training wheels in the beginning but after you’re up and rolling along they will get in the way and … Continue reading

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Gap up surprise in GILD

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  With a gap up in the market and a narrow range day, I was happy to find GILD as a possible gap up surprise this morning.  Price triggered a 5 minute buy just @ 9:50 am reversal time that … Continue reading

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No Mojo for TraderHank this week

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  I ended the week down a few “risk” units, the last time I had a losing week was the week before Thanksgiving.  I guess all steaks will come to an end but unfortunately this was just not my week. … Continue reading

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3 great traders from Friday

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I really had a homerun day of trading on Friday with 3 really nice trades to share.  My first trade came early has the market sold off hard into 10 am reversal time triggering a mini climatic buy setup in … Continue reading

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Starbucks throws TraderHank out of the coffee shop…

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  I’ve had another profitable week so far and I’m on my way to another profitable month in a row since last November 2013.  Today was a tougher trading day for myself, in the old days, I’d would have lost … Continue reading

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Plays in EBAY and ABX get the job done for TraderHank…

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I had two smaller plays that I held both into 3:30 pm reversal time, the first was a play in EBAY which I found on my gap up list this morning.  EBAY did not score but since I had no … Continue reading

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Market Law #1

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Reads, “The law of momentum, under normal market conditions, wider color bars will be followed by the same colored bar 80% of the time.”  Today this market law kept me on the right side of the market.  The QQQ put … Continue reading

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A second chance play in UAL leads to an “OMG” play for TraderHank

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My play of the day was found while I was looking for wide range bars during my 9:45 am scan of my 100 stock universe.  This is where I found UAL which had a small gap up and sold off … Continue reading

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