Saturday, May 11, 2013

Summary Week Ended Friday 10th May 2013

16 stock trades:

3 BP + 62.33 BPS

13 STAN - 935.23 BPS

Stocks net  - 872.90 BPS

Long & short trades, intraday & overnight.

Index trades:

1 FTSE + 8.15 BPS

Net total - 864.75 BPS

I traded 4 days, Monday was a bank holiday.

Thoughts

A really poor week, I was short STAN near the weekly highs, but closed the trade because results were due out the following morning, and there was some strength in the stock. The following morning (Thursday) STAN gapped down from 1700 to 1641.5. I went long for the reversal, which never appeared. It could have been worse I suppose, and fortunately STAN didn't gap down on Friday morning.

Meanwhile, both the FTSE & Dax made new 52 week highs on Friday. The FTSE closed above 6600, last time it did that was Nov 2007.

I will recover from this loss, but it certainly gave my confidence a knock.

Stay disciplined.

Stay focussed.

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