Buy at 10am sell at 12pm strategy, as I contemplated yesterday, could have netted $325 on 500 shares.
Today's breakout was precipitated by a surge in oil prices and speculation of HAL buying BHI. If the rumor is true are more Oil Service acquisitions coming down the pike? Will oil stay stubbornly high and not follow seasonal patterns? This could put a bid under OIH and XLE.
Herky jerky movement in the morning, then afternoon upward trend developed with many head fakes to confuse you. In retrospect, this was a trade that I should have made based on the volume spike at 13:30.
SMH also made afternoon comeback along with QQQQ, but still divergent.
My goal with this blog is to document my evolution as a trader focusing exclusively on trading highly liquid ETF's intra-day. In some rare instances I might swing trade ETFs as well.
Why ETFs? There are about 50-60 ETFs that trade every day with a volume >1M. Most of these have a very low bid-ask spread. I can also quickly shift my focus to any sector or area of the market depending on which way the market is trading. I can also easily short and add leverage through the UltraShort and Ultra ETFs. There is a great advantage to focusing on a small set of securities that you get familiar with every day. I don't have to search for the "hot stock" of the day and hope I enter before the momentum disappears. The downside to the ETF approach is that ETF's usually don't have much intra-day volatility, so perhaps there's less of a spectacular trading upside. On the other hand, I cant lose as much either.
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