| pthomas215 1,251 posts
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 | 1/12/2018 7:52:03 PM 
 sandjco, you are welcome!  with DGLD, if i can help, using the charting wealth system the guys who run it are clear for gold the 4 hour chart is the only one you look at.  So just use free stock charts and run a 4 hour chart to see how your gold position is shaping up. it will help you exit faster if you have to. Using the 4 hour chart i knew gold was probably gonna continue to run up.
 
 
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| sandjco 648 posts
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 | 1/12/2018 11:13:08 PM 
 Thanks PT...my challenge is that...I have limited access during the trading hours and sites like bestfreecharts with my iPhone.  The best thing i have right now is using yahoo app with 15min delayed feed.  With DGLD I just got impatient with the non activity and i wanted some more dry powder to play.
 
 Because (my own reasoning...not sure if it is the "right play") I cannot watch the market during the trading hours...I'm more tight on my exits when the stock does not seem to move my way.
 
 I will use your suggestion when i can find or run across an app that will give me the 4hr time frame for free with an iPhone ;=D
 
 As always...im always open to learning anything that will make me a better trader
 
 
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| sandjco 648 posts
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 | 1/16/2018 2:54:22 PM 
 Have exited long positions before they turned red; will use EOD prices to track.
 
 Come on....let's have some correction so we can re-mount!
 
 
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| miketranz 978 posts
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 | 1/16/2018 5:08:13 PM 
 sandjco,glad I came across this thread.Good work.Let me know what your picks are for tomorrow,now that we had the mother of all reversals.Best.Miketranz...
 
 
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| shillllihs 6,101 posts
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 | 1/16/2018 5:25:43 PM 
 Looks like DRN about to go long.
 
 
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| sandjco 648 posts
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 | 1/17/2018 8:40:10 AM 
 Thanks for dropping by Mike and Shils!
 
 Mike... not sure if "this" the mother of all reversals.  IMHO, the market has had a joyful ride since Trump was elected with no major local or global malaise to trigger a mother of all sell offs.  Even the drama with North Korea was a non event.  Thank you for your kind feedback; I'm glad someone was able to benefit from my posting.
 
 Using EOD...
 
 AMZN out at $1304.86 for 8%
 LIT out at $39.83 for a slight 3% loss
 XIV out at $137.76 for a 1% loss
 TECL out at $126.27 for 5.9%
 TNA out at $75.17 for 3.7%
 
 Hindsight:
 I bailed too early late Dec on probably less than optimal trading volumes (holidays) and re-mounted XIV on less than optimal entry as well.  LIT was what I thought could have been a play on TSLA but it never moved.  Going back to johnpauls' excellent question to me..."what is your sell trigger"?  In this case, I don't have one yet.  My gut ruled the day - XIV didn't start well despite the other stocks I was watching doing well during the morning and then the losing steam as the day progressed.  I would imagine if I had access to see a 2 hour chart, this would have been evident (?).
 
 I currently have no positions for the purposes of this blog.  However, as I am interested in Options...I opened a small contract on VXX puts just prior to market close.
 
 
 
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| sandjco 648 posts
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 | 1/18/2018 2:41:19 PM 
 Scaling into DGAZ $22.20.  Short VXX $26.50.  Long RIOT $20.25 (broke my self imposed rule of not trading individual stocks) and long AMZN $1298.30
 
 
 
 
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| sandjco 648 posts
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 | 1/21/2018 12:23:48 PM 
 What shutdown? Major indexes sure ain't panicking (yet?)
 
 
   
  
 
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| pthomas215 1,251 posts
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 | 1/21/2018 1:52:08 PM 
 As Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist,of Charles Schwab & Co noted this week: Since 1993, if you bought SPY on open each day, return would be -5.2%...but if you did opposite & bought on close next day, return would be 568%.   VIX suppressing moves in NYSE hours and releasing it out of hours. for some reason.
 
 
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| sandjco 648 posts
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 | 1/21/2018 10:35:00 PM 
 @pt...i must admit, I don't really listen or tune in to the talking heads anymore.  Growing up, I remembered watching Lou Roukeyser (I think that was his name).
 
 I read somewhere  once....when the market is able to climb a wall of worry...it is a bull.  I would really really really like some big mother correction tho...;=P
 
 
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