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Well Silver it may have been a coincidence that you were seeking opinions on how others react to brokers up/down grades as it looks like UBS just re-affirmed its SELL on CRZ...

Im looking at CRZ/AHE but waiting for a better entry on AHE before I jump in...


Some of the big losers have reverted a bit the last two days...still waiting on IIN/MTU and SGT/TEL though.

Looking back at some of my recent losers that I cut after ~8 days or so, they have reverted enough to trigger a signal the other way...eg. AIO/TOL. This is reinforcing that I need more patience, so I'm trying not to worry to much with the open losers as they are only now coming to the 8 day mark.


EDIT:
JPmorgan just re-affirmed overweight CRZ despite slightly lowering guidance so its a bit of a mixed bag.
 
SilverRanger said:
Just finished my little macro to update the MAE and MFE for each trade, feel free to drop me a PM with your email if you are interested
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PM sent. Thanks! :#


I am kicking myself with AIO/TOL. I closed at breakeven but now it's well in profit. I think information from the MAE/MFE type analysis I think you'd get a better sense on when to hold and when to fold.


With these car stocks, keep an eye on those monthly new car sale release timing. And a reminder to myself... try pairing MMS with these car stocks.
 
I'm still in my CRZ/IRE and now slightly in the red, not too worried as this point

skc said:
I am kicking myself with AIO/TOL. I closed at breakeven but now it's well in profit. I think information from the MAE/MFE type analysis I think you'd get a better sense on when to hold and when to fold.
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First day plugging those MAE/MFE numbers in my trades and they told me how much of an idiot I was today, but I can really see MFEs being useful if I collect enough of them, especially measured against the % deviation.

I took TOL/BLD at market close, quite like this pair, could have gone BLD/TOL last week but missed my entry.
 
VSntchr said:
BLD had an update this time last year also so that could come into play any day now....
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That's what "know your stock well" is all about.

BLD issued a trading update today. I am not 100% what to make of it (and the market didn't know either). I had long BLD against short GWA which I closed today. I managed to get an average price of $4.76 for BLD which wasn't that bad compared to the VWAP of $4.719 by the end of the day. I could have had better exit in the morning spike but the GWA short was too thin and I wanted to exit both legs in a pretty even manner. Oh well, still a profitable trade.
 
SilverRanger said:
First day plugging those MAE/MFE numbers in my trades and they told me how much of an idiot I was today, but I can really see MFEs being useful if I collect enough of them, especially measured against the % deviation.
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Remember your MAE/MFE is calculated on "touch" while your actual P&L is measured on "fill". So depending on your size and the sort of stocks (and their bid/ask spread) you trade, you are not expected to get the exact MAE/MFE.
 
SilverRanger said:
I'm still in my CRZ/IRE and now slightly in the red, not too worried as this point
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CRZ /IRE closed, quite happy with today's gain. JBH today was quite interesting, giving up a good chunk of yesterday's gain, wished I had the guts to reverse my JBH/HVN yesterday!
 
skc said:
I am so glad that I didn't put on that long MYR short DJS trade. That will get blown out of the water tomorrow.
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VSntchr said:
Got out of my DJS short on tuesday (for a profit too )
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Porper said:
Excellent timing. Do you use a timing method V.S or was it the patterns that made you take profit?

When and why did you short...same question as to why you closed the position.
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I have moved these here so as not to clutter up DJS' thread.

Sometimes thing just sort of work out in your favour. Avoiding a loss is as good as any win. Since TRS and SUL trading update I have not put on any pairs in the retail sector due to the risks involved.

I was long TWE about 2 weeks ago so dodged a big one there as well.
 

I closed MYR/DJS on Tuesday as well, but now I'm actually tempted to go back in, after all it's a deal they knocked down 2 months ago, and nothing is on the table now. It sort of reminds me of the DJS hoax too, which I was unlucky to be sitting on it and closed at a huge loss, only to see it bounced back the day after.
 

That really sucked... to take a loss on a hoax.

Although I think the situation is a bit different here.
 
What also sucked was my trading today!!

Got half a fill at 6.84 on the close of my TCL short...then it decided to run back up and sit there all day...closed the rest out on the closing-auction for avg 6.89

Was within a tick of closing CRZ/AHE this morning, then it flipped and now its -3.5%
and same again with MTU/IIN..so close, then diverges again!


Rant over for the day and can't complain because I'm in the green for the week.
 
skc said:
That really sucked... to take a loss on a hoax.

Although I think the situation is a bit different here.
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Ok, so I took HVN/DJS at market close just to see the flop, but did so with half my normal position size. If it's not looking good early next week, I fold.


I can rant on those every day, especially with the MFE numbers I get. And yes, the week has been good, actually, the whole January was good
 
Ended up taking the loss on IIN/MTU...only cost me 1.5% and the MAE was around 4% so I considering it a decent exit.

Hopped on to APN/FXJ this afternoon... my system has it at -3.06 SD so hoping for a decent trade here...APN is pretty thin these days and I haven't traded either of these stocks before so leg size is low.

Tried to pair two goldies today; RSG/EVN - was looking good at 0.51 fill for RSG and then the price moved up with me left second in queue...whilst I got a half fill on EVN at 0.655 and then the price dropped to 0.64. Closed off the EVN for a small profit as I don't want to take the risk of holding anything overnight that isnt direction neutral at the moment!

Have a couple of trades I'd like to get out of this week, don't want to push it to close to reporting dates....I am already far too close with FOX - which reports this friday
 

I tried to get into APN/FXJ today as well, but only managed to fill 20% on APN before FXJ turning south, closed APN at break even, quite disappointing on an otherwise very good pair.
 
Managed to squeeze out of APN/FXJ yesterday....I really didn't like the look of APN...could be a decent re-entry now that its close to the 40c level...

Might just see how it plays out for a while
 
I hope no one got caught shorting AUT... that would have been VERY nasty.
 
VSntchr said:
Managed to squeeze out of APN/FXJ yesterday....I really didn't like the look of APN...could be a decent re-entry now that its close to the 40c level...

Might just see how it plays out for a while
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For a loss? I got in at 0.415 yesterday but is under water thanks to FXJ short.

skc said:
I hope no one got caught shorting AUT... that would have been VERY nasty.
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I actually got a signal to go long on AUT yesterday, but didn't take it
 
SilverRanger said:
For a loss? I got in at 0.415 yesterday but is under water thanks to FXJ short.
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Yeah small loss.

Couldn't resist myself and got back in at 0.41 and 0.675...the divergence is pretty big, hope its not luring me in with false hopes!

Not a great week for me, PBG just wont stop going up ~1.5% each day

I'm not taking many signals now due to reporting season but I managed to get into DLX/JHX as they are on a different cycle. That said, JHX will put out a qrtly towards the end of Feb, but I'm comfortable with that.

On a side-note, do you guys do much directional trading whilst the pairs are slow around reporting time? I've been taking a few small positions when stocks I know well have reported..
 

No, I don't do much around reporting period, but I am trading HKE stocks too, their reporting are pretty much done
 
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