Play: Bull flag
After going parabolic, I was looking to short but didn't have any balls to as was very volatile and who knows until when it can squeeze. When it broke trend, I was expecting it to continue its downtrend for a bit but it didn't. It started basing out with clear support and trading within a 30cent range and making higher lows in that range. When it kept trying to break out, this shows buying power was there. I got in when it started going and sold all like a rookie right under HOD. My first target was HOD, and normally, should have scaled out to grab more of it but didn't. I traded based on how this week has been going which I haven't been able to get much follow through so I took it all off thinking there wouldn't be any especially as it was overextended...but clearly it did. It ran over a dollar from my entry..Holding it for 10seconds is not the way to trade especially as prices were lifting so no reason to get scared. Most importantly, that is why i scale out to grab most of the meat.
Reasons to sell: spike, bad discipline, didn't scale out and wait for proper first target, traded based on other trades
Execution detail:
Date/time | Symbol | Side | Price | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015-05-05 14:05:52 | PTBI | buy | $6.560 | long |
2015-05-05 14:06:05 | PTBI | sell | $6.640 | 0 |
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