Thursday’s (almost home free) trades

Kind of more of the same today. There were lots of candidates to choose from, I took some subpar trades but overall kept to my plan. I traded RX, NKTR and VRTX. RX and NKTR didn’t work and stopped me out while VRTX worked great, initially. I managed to take a partial profit on it […]

The fish that can survive for months in a tree

Pretty astonishing little fish.

The fish that can survive for months in a tree | the Daily Mail
Hidden away inside rotten branches and trunks, the remarkable creatures temporarily alter their biological makeup so they can breathe air.
The discovery, along with its ability to breed without a mate, must make the mangrove killifish, Rivulus marmoratus Poey, one […]

Nasty Wednesday trades

For the last few days the market has been quite challenging, since that intraday reversal on Thursday last week I believe. Today I also traded quite poorly going into stocks I don’t normally. I traded YHOO, INTC and RIMM. As the marker started sliding all positions were stopped out at various places. the final P&L […]

Choppy session Tuesday

Quite a choppy session. There were a few opportunities out there but not my usual kind of trades. As the morning was decidedly negative in tone I went short: ERIC and VCLK. Neither one worked and I finished the day with -1.6R.

Monday trades

The day started quite nicely but then in the afternoon the selloff stopped and reversed so my short didn’t work its way back down in the afternoon. I traded BIIB and MDT and finished the day with just +1.1R.

No trend, no R’s

Quite a boring day. The market was quite positive in the morning but I had no appropriate candidates on the long side, so I kindda forced two short trades: CWTR and ATI. In the end the market decided to go nowhere and stayed in a tight range. The end P&L is -0.7R. Let’s see if […]