Day Chart: just failed to hold the 9ema but bounced off day lows. testing for a higher bounce.
Buy: was doing some form of a flat top. I've seen these breakout before despite how unconvincing they looked so I followed my rule which was to just buy the pattern and let it play out. stop was only 0.03 risk with 0.11 move to VWAP.
Sell: failed to break on 2nd attempt, saw other names moving, didnt want to miss other opportunities. Should have bought at $3.89 when I first contemplated this trade, now I'm selling at that same price but for a $0.03 loss.
Lesson: I paid the price for chasing this stock up 3 pennies. Been missing on other ideas that worked out, didnt want to miss out on this one. flat top position needs to be combined with another factor, not a very convincing reason to long when you think of it.
Execution detail:
Date/time | Symbol | Side | Price | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|
2015-05-14 14:27:00 | GEVO | buy | $3.920 | long |
2015-05-14 14:42:00 | GEVO | sell | $3.890 | 0 |
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