Lots of large losses and a few scratches ... hard to make a buck on the short side still.
CF Industries Pop, 1 Minute View
This I did see in real-time but too groggy to do anything about it ... hard to see if it would have been a good play ... when it came back down in the 13:20s to probe around the re-open low, that may have been a place you'd get shaken out ... not that wonderful unless you were one of the early birds in below $65 ... can't tell how many trades went off down there without a tick chart.
Crick to enrarge
Macy's Pop, 2 Minute View
Late to post this, thus the two minute chart ... some "activist" said Macy's worth $125 a share ... quick day traders could have made at least $3 off of this pop, scanner willing. Can't see where the stop would go without a tick chart, but I assume the risk reward would have been decent in the end.
Twitter Pop, 1 Minute View
Takeover story posted to fake Bloomberg site ... obviously the perpetrators loaded up on call options in advance and dumped them into the "news" ... I have no idea how people think they can get away with this ... it's so easy to track the purchases back to the broker and the individual accounts, crazy, they will all be caught in short order.
Anyway, as a day trader, you would see this and probably buy in ... say you paid $37.50 getting in, you probably would have lost money or a scratch at best, the whole up and down move was done in ten minutes. As always, I'm interested in talking with people who were involved with it in real time.
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- July 13, 2015
No changes this week...
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- July 6, 2015
Lots of reversals this week... will be short a majority of things after making these changes.
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- June 29, 2015
No changes ... timing of reversal to short China looks good so far.
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- June 22, 2015
No changes this week. TZA offsetting the dumb QID short ... expect to reverse QID soon enough, we'll see.
Tanita Tikaram Channel
First 50 tracks generated by the Pandora algo.
- Tanita Tikaram – Good Tradition
- Dido – Hunter
- Norah Jones – Come Away With Me
- Katie Todd – Leave
- Tanita Tikaram – Valentine Heart
- Suzanne Vega – Gypsy
- Norah Jones – Broken
- Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – Circle
- The Cranberries – Pretty
- Tanita Tikaram – Love Is Just A Word
- Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
- Enya – Only Time [thumbs down]
- Sonya Kitchell – Train
- Tanita Tikaram – All Things To You
- Adele – Make You Feel My Love (Live)
- Dido – Here With Me
- Suzanne Vega – Marlene On The Wall
- Elaine K. – Soft Skin
- Norah Jones – Wake Me Up
- 10,000 Maniacs – These Are Days
- Sarah McLachlan – Adia [easy listening quality to this one]
- Dido – I’m No Angel
- Tracy Chapman – Almost
- Holly Cole – Alison [covering Elvis dangerous]
- Julee Cruise – Falling [Twin Peaks theme song?]
- Etta James – At Last
- Norah Jones – What Am I To You?
- Tanita Tikaram – My Love
- Norah Jones – Be Here To Love Me
- Thea Gilmore – Have You Heard
- Dido – Sand In My Shoes
- Tanita Tikaram – Play Me Again
- The Cranberries – Dreams
- 10,000 Maniacs – More Than This [not Natalie singing]
- Tori Amos – Sorta Fairytale [anodyne, thumbs down]
- Tanita Tikaram – One Kiss
- Norah Jones – Nightingale
- Dido – White Flag [top 40 hit?]
- Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – Nothing [another hit]
- Tanita Tikaram – Wonderful Shadow
- Norah Jones – The Long Way Home
- Julee Cruise – Floating [more Twin Peaks sounding stuff]
- Natalie Imbruglia – Leave Me Alone [one hit wonder with Torn]
- The Cardigans – 03:45 No Sleep
- Dido – Life For Rent
- Suzanne Vega – Straight Lines
- Cary Brothers – Ride
- Sting – Fields Of Gold
- Norah Jones – Humble Me
- Jennie Devoe – Don’t Forget To Breathe
TripAdvisor Pop, 1 Minute View
TRIP popped at 12:33 PM ... not sure if the scanner would have picked up on it, but it surely would have seen 12:37 PM.
As I've said time and again the one minute chart is not particularly useful for seeing where you could realistically enter and place stops, you need a tick chart for that, and my buddy @HCPG kindly provided me with two ten tick charts below:
You can see that it would have been tough (for the scanner) to spot between 12:32 and 12:37 ...
It's during the 12:37 bar that activity really picks up and it would be sounding multiple alarms ... even with a "bad" entry of $79 (better at $78) things would have worked out into the close, risk versus reward worthwhile (said with the benefit of hindsight).
StockTwits stream, usual suspects NewsHedge_Squawk and OpenOutcrier ... Moench first to notice at 12:34 which gives me hope that the scanner would have bleeped, beating the pack.