RealityTrader Trading Log

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

January 2, 2008

Session Start: Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 2008

Session Time: Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 2008

[05:45] {magoo} morning
[05:47] {bruce} hi magoo
[05:52] {dino} gm and happy new year all
[05:53] {magoo} hey bruce, happy new yr
[05:53] {bruce} thanx mags
[05:53] {bruce} same to you
[05:53] {bruce} morning dino
[05:54] {bruce} qcom dino
[05:54] {dino} patent issues
[05:54] {bruce} k
[05:54] {bruce} was wondering if it might bounce
[05:54] {dino} was thinkiing brcm on the long off of it
[05:56] {dino} at 35ish, maybe
[05:56] {bruce} k
[05:57] {bruce} was temted to try a premarket long at 37.50
[05:58] {dino} who knows bruce???
[05:58] {dino} phh deal off\
[06:00] {dino} akns pop
[06:01] {esemde} dino bruce hawk lum magoo...morning
[06:02] {magoo} es:)
[06:02] {hawkfan4} gm all, happy new year
[06:03] {magoo} hawk:)
[06:03] {bruce} thanx hawk - same to you
[06:07] {BillyD} morning
[06:08] {bruce} billy
[06:08] {dino} gm ese
[06:09] {BillyD} late here, any standout s this morning
[06:09] {cosmo} AKNS
[06:10] {cosmo} 11.92 pre mkt high
[06:10] {cosmo} fwiw
[06:10] {BillyD} ty cosmo
[06:10] {cosmo} Akeena Solar licenses new solar panel technology to Suntech
[06:10] {cosmo} Briefing.com (Wed 8:00am)
[06:14] {cosmo} DSTI pre mkt high = 6.70 fwiw
[06:14] {dptl} good morning all
[06:16] {esemde} dp
[06:22] {bruce} dp
[06:23] {dino} dp
[06:24] {lumdus} good morning all. Roman here today ?
[06:24] {cosmo} Solars are rising...'tis a brave new year i think
[06:24] {dino} ldk
[06:25] {Roman} Happy New Year to all
[06:25] {magoo} u 2 roman:)
[06:26] {esemde} roman
[06:26] {bruce} roman
[06:28] {dino} gm rfr
[06:34] {Roman} JADE
[06:34] {esemde} hmmm fund managers not putting too much money to work it seems....
[06:36] {Roman} ALTI
[06:36] {Roman} long
[06:36] {Roman} small
[06:36] {Roman} 4.50
[06:37] {Roman} no chasing,
[06:39] {dino} fxp l .20
[06:39] {Roman} ESLR looking decent
[06:40] {Roman} long BLDP slow, could be all day hold
[06:43] {dino} stopped -.20 fxp
[06:46] {esemde} Ok this could be a Vad question but......seems like everything and it's dog is going up.....what do you look for....
[06:47] {Roman} buy it all
[06:47] {Roman} kidding of course
[06:47] {BillyD} solars seem stuck here
[06:47] {Roman} i am watching solars too
[06:47] {esemde} yuk yuk yuk.......
[06:47] {esemde} solars as well here....
[06:48] {Roman} watching ESLR on pullback
[06:48] {lumdus} fisv
[06:48] {Roman} HOKU looks good
[06:48] {dino} jrjc l .25
[06:48] {Roman} had some news in the morning
[06:49] {lumdus} fisv - ther eyou go
[06:50] {lumdus} hmmm, not really.
[06:52] {dino} qcom s .50, stop .81
[06:53] {dino} jrjc stopped -.28
[06:53] {Roman} CYBS
[06:54] {Roman} looks good for continuation
[06:55] {BillyD} Roman....DSTI can't seem to bounce..any read on it
[06:56] {Roman} not really, but i would wait for it to break down below $6 before expexting a bounce, unless all solars pickup
[06:56] {BillyD} thx
[06:59] {cosmo} pwav
[06:59] {cosmo} tests 4.24
[07:00] {BillyD} in hoku .56
[07:00] {BillyD} tight stop
[07:00] {Roman} ECONX Economic Calendar: Dec ISM Index and Nov Construction Spending data are due out in approx 5 minutes at 10:00 E.T.
[07:00] {dino} fxp l .25
[07:00] {Roman} ECONX Dec ISM Index @ 47.7vs. 50.5 consensus
[07:00] {BillyD} out hoku
[07:00] {BillyD} -.02
[07:01] {dptl} is it fed today?
[07:03] {Roman} Fed Minutes released today at 2 p.m.
[07:03] {Roman} from their meeting on December 11th
[07:03] {dptl} ok ty
[07:04] {BillyD} arca book seems to be sticking on L2
[07:07] {dino} out fxp .29, +1.04
[07:07] {patience} nice way to start the year dino
[07:08] {dino} lucky, only 1 for 3 so far
[07:08] {dino} qcom going to stop me too it seems
[07:09] {dino} stopped -.30
[07:14] {dino} pwrd
[07:20] {Roman} EMKR
[07:20] {Roman} bounce time
[07:21] {Roman} GCOM Globecomm Systems Awarded Service Contract Renewal from a Major U.S. Government Prime Contractor valued up to $42.4 mln (11.69 -0.01)
[07:22] {dino} morn l .27 thin
[07:24] {dino} brcm l .03
[07:30] {dino} smci spike
[07:34] {dino} tbsi l .44
[07:38] {dino} morn stopped
[07:43] {dino} brcm stopped -.290
[07:43] {dino} .20
[07:51] {BillyD} way slow morning
[07:53] {dino} morn l .50
[07:59] {lumdus} very slow just hanging out
[08:01] {dino} and i'm just stopping all over
[08:03] {bruce} mlnm long?
[08:06] {dino} $40m pmt from jnj, and webcast
[08:08] {dino} cpla bit of blood
[08:13] {dino} morn stopped.
[08:15] {dino} rinsed
[08:24] {dino} ldsh l .30
[08:25] {lumdus} bruce mlnm long
[08:25] {lumdus} i think here would be nice. is roman around ?
[08:26] {lumdus} if not, i take it break of .r5
[08:26] {bruce} I'm calling it a day
[08:26] {bruce} 4 straight stops
[08:30] {dino} fstr l .58
[08:30] {Roman} ih ave no read on MLNM
[08:30] {Roman} sory
[08:45] {BillyD} lumdus. see dcc
[08:59] {esemde} ah...ave.. noo..cents of whaaa...is goin on taday
[09:01] {dino} fstr stop to .88
[09:01] {patience} gold options i bought dec 31st have done rather well today...currency contracts are up sharply as well...nice day so far, just scalping options
[09:01] {dino} gj patience
[09:01] {patience} days like this remind me why i trade
[09:02] {esemde} well done patience....beats the craaa.....out of what i'm doin
[09:02] {patience} vad taught me to scalp :)
[09:03] {dino} fstr stop to .04
[09:07] {dino} out fstr ave .98, +.40
[09:09] {esemde} gj dino
[09:10] {dino} thx
[09:26] {dino} cavm
[09:35] {dino} cavm l .00
[09:40] {dino} mdrx l .55
[09:41] {esemde} am watching that one with you dino...good job
[09:41] {esemde} CAVM
[09:43] {dino} ty
[09:43] {dino} lucky
[09:44] {esemde} naw...it's that contrarian skill you have...
[09:49] {dino} :)
[10:12] {patience} selling my kinross, barrick and HGU etf shares now, keeping April and May gold options
[10:12] {patience} today makes up for the 2 weeks in december when i was completely off my game
[10:16] {magoo} nice patience
[10:16] {magoo} hey dave, dcc please when get second
[10:16] {dino} dec. was way off for me too patience
[10:17] {patience} i kept watching vad making good calls but i was just not in the groove, couldn't pull the trigger
[10:17] {dino} did roughly half what i should've
[10:18] {dino} dman litt;e spike, thin
[10:20] {dino} sigm l .34
[10:26] * magoo slaps LaserDave1 around a bit with a large trout
[10:31] {magoo} dave dcc if u here
[10:35] {BillyD} AKNS is heating up
[10:40] {esemde} long CSUN 17.09
[10:46] {dino} cavm stop to .25
[10:49] {esemde} out CSUN .30 +.21
[10:49] {dino} out cavm +.21
[10:50] {dino} exls l .52
[10:54] {dino} hdix
[11:00] {dino} gj ese
[11:01] {dino} mdrx stop to .79
[11:02] {esemde} tks
[11:03] {Roman} FED says SITUATION "QUITE FLUID"; GIVEN UNCERTAINTY,FOMC DIDN'T GIVE BALANCE OF RISKS IN DEC 11 STATEMENT
[11:04] {dino} outmdrx .81, +.26
[11:05] {dino} out ldsh .63, +.33
[11:09] {Roman} long DSTI
[11:10] {Roman} 6.10
[11:23] * magoo slaps LaserDave1 around a bit with a large trout
[11:23] {magoo} dave, dcc please
[11:31] {patience} ok, i need to get away from the keyboard before i blow my earlier profits. bought xdb (british pound) puts, june 196. have a good day guys
[11:31] {BillyD} bye patience
[11:37] {dino} later patience
[11:58] {dino} salm
[12:01] {dino} brb
[12:12] {dino} l ldsh .26
[12:16] {magoo} ok, bacxk
[12:16] {magoo} u here dave? dcc
[12:18] {lumdus} out dsti +.01 way too boring
[12:19] {dino} lol
[12:31] {dino} artc
[12:33] {dino} jaso strong
[12:48] {BillyD} it will be intersting tomoorow to see which way mkt follows
[12:49] {BillyD} magoo...did you hera from dave
[12:49] {BillyD} hear
[12:50] {magoo} yes, thank u...dcc billy
[12:50] {BillyD} good
[12:55] {dino} l fcsx .94
[12:59] {dino} out fcsx .18, +.24
[12:59] {BillyD} gj dino
[12:59] {dino} out ldsh .31, +.05
[12:59] {BillyD} ASTI news?
[12:59] {BillyD} don't see any
[13:00] {dino} solar thats all
[13:00] {BillyD} SOLF spiked as well
[13:00] {BillyD} see everyone tomorrow
[13:02] {dino} take care all
Session Close: Thu Jan 03 00:00:00 2008