Recent content by atters88

Hi Your reviews are definitely some of the best material on Trade2Win. Thank you for sharing your analysis.

Future meet ups? I keep a low profile on this site but am an experienced and serious trader. I can't make Friday (wife's away, so I'm in charge on the home front) but would definitely be interested in future events. Hope Friday is an interesting and enjoyable blast.

The odds of success? I've been away on a Summer break (the Italian lakes, thank you for asking), but it's time to resume this diary and to turn my mind again to trading (not that my mind really left it). I'm holding a couple of positions but I won't bore you with them as the time for doing...

A Perfect Set Up I have written before about stock trades I like to take where the day's range and volume are both greater than the previous days. If certain conditions are met, the set up is the most reliable I know. Last week a stock on the CAC40 (Orange) threw up a gem. The signal was...

Boeing is biggest faller on the Dow today The journal is really highlighting my strength and weakness. My strength is that i'm pretty good at getting in early on breakouts/identifying stocks that are about to move. But I realise that I lack discipline in managing profitable trades. So, my...

Short Boeing (BA) @ 119.02 I've just shorted Boeing (BA) @119.02.

A (mini) revelation Once again, a very helpful and thoughtful post which got me thinking about my trading and may just have helped me come to a mini-revelation. Because my analysis is partly subject, I had tended to dismiss the advice often given about having a detailed trading plan and...

When the sun shines I could have filled my boots today, but didn't. Last night I wrote that short trades were becoming easier to find than longs and that on the CAC40, you were spoilt for choice. How right that was. However, a mix of timidity and other commitments which kept me offline for...

Does my journal help my trading? Yes, this journal is helping me, though I am still not as disciplined or methodical in my trading as some traders advise. The journal helps in that it ensures that I think through my trades properly. If a trade doesn't make sense when I try to explain it in...

Profitable short P&G trade closed Having given back so much of my profit in my short General Electric trade a couple of days ago, I feel inclined to take my money off the table quickly today. I've closed my short in Procter & Gamble with a nice profit after a 0.8% drop in the first 10 minutes...

A very quick scalp - Lafarge I left a market order early this morning to sell Larfarge (LG) at the open after its heavy fall yesterday which carried on into the close. Within 4 minutes, that trade had generated nearly a 1% profit. As I am out and about today, I have decided just to collect my...

Heading south? For a while now, I've noticed the increasing number of CAC40 stocks wit weak chart formations and I scoured the CAC40 for short candidates. I now sens the same is happening to the Dow 30 stocks. One by one they are weakening. The Dow itself is holding up better but it is being...

Profit, but new opportunities drying up I closed my Vivendi long (good profit) and General Electric short today (modest proft) and also closed my Michellin short which gave back half of the profit. But I am holding McDonalds (MCD) overnight even though I expect any further advance to be choppy...

The trouble with rules Trade the plan, so the saying goes, and I know that in the long run doing this helps protect one from oneself. But there are also times when subjective judgement should be allowed perhaps to override what your rules tell you to do (better override the plan than...

Vivendi comes good I have 4 open positions: Vivendi (VIV) long. Now comfortably in the money. Michellin (ML) short. Currently below water. A long legged doji was formed today, so what happens next is anyone's guess but I couldn't get online this afternoon to check up on the trade and it didn't...