First couple of CFD trades today!!

[Young Gun]

Hey everyone I am a young investor at aged 19 I have been investing in shares for only about 6 months with relatively good sucess ( about 20 % in 6 months) . I have educated myself heavily on candle stick charting, technical analysis as well as anything I can get my hands on.

I opened up a CFD account with CMC markets and today I had my first trade.

I managed to make $150 through using rougly $200 leveraged 95 % to buy $5000 worth of Paladin shares. I managed to pick a swing both ways. My intial entry was a short position then a long positions. The below graph is how i executed the trade.

I know using leverage is very dangerous and I am going to make sure I always use a stop loss and a guaranteed stop loss if going overnight on the position.

I just thought I woud share my first trade with everyone and get some feedback.

 

[nat]

Re: First Couple of CFD trades today !!

Hi there, looks ok trade to me, if planned the trade and traded the plan then excellent work.

Wow only 19 wish id started that early but better late then never,Nathan

 

[Fab]

Re: First Couple of CFD trades today !!

Hey everyone I am a young investor at aged 19 I have been investing in shares for only about 6 months with relatively good sucess ( about 20 % in 6 months) . I have educated myself heavily on candle stick charting, technical analysis as well as anything I can get my hands on.

I opened up a CFD account with CMC markets and today I had my first trade.

I managed to make $150 through using rougly $200 leveraged 95 % to buy $5000 worth of Paladin shares. I managed to pick a swing both ways. My intial entry was a short position then a long positions. The below graph is how i executed the trade.

I know using leverage is very dangerous and I am going to make sure I always use a stop loss and a guaranteed stop loss if going overnight on the position.

I just thought I woud share my first trade with everyone and get some feedback.

Good one. I am not an expert on candle stick but I would be interested to know what they tell you about PDN in the short term as I bought some PDN warrant today unfortnately for me I picked them at the high of the intraday.
I believe PDN can only go up but in the short term I am not too sure it can go as hard as it has gone in the last few days.
PDN is an incredible share and U fever is far from being over in my opinion

 

[professor_frink]

Re: First Couple of CFD trades today !!

Young Gun,

would it be possible to repost the chart with times on it?

What kind of timeframe is it we are looking at?

Cheers

 

[Young Gun]

Re: First Couple of CFD trades today !!

Sorry about that, this is a stupid attached rule where it has to be smaller than a certain resolution and I had to chop it down. This chart is over a 2 hour time period from roughly 10:40 to 12:30.

 

[Young Gun]

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Good one. I am not an expert on candle stick but I would be interested to know what they tell you about PDN in the short term as I bought some PDN warrant today unfortnately for me I picked them at the high of the intraday.
I believe PDN can only go up but in the short term I am not too sure it can go as hard as it has gone in the last few days.
PDN is an incredible share and U fever is far from being over in my opinion

Personally I think PDN is a little over price the stock has risen over 15% in the past week and i think it wouldnt be unlikely the stock falls 5 % or more. However if your investing long term its another story

 

[x2rider]

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Nice Young Gun
It does set you off on the right foot to be able to get a winning trade for the first one.
Are you purposefully not holding overnight or did you just chose to get out on that last candle?
I managed to get into PDN yesterday 4 times in about 8mins, pyramiding each time. I am holding a bit more than intra day though
Another strategy that I use for a solid gain is to trade the sectors. The indicator says to go long when the 10day moving average crosses the 30day moving average and then to go short when the 10day crosses the 30day. This is not a intraday thing although it could be. Set a tight stoploss of about 3 or 4 % either side of the entry.
Just trade the sectors that are trending and try and keep away from things that are crabbing.
If you want any more info drop me a PM.

Cheers martin

 

[Young Gun]

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Hi Martin,

I choose not to keep an overnight position because I would prefer to monitor the stock myself untill I build my confidence up. Furthermore I think that its easy to become lazy ie miss out on important news or announcements.

But I am looking at going short on Paladin as my next move I think its looking a little sluggish, whats your throughts? (as in for a couple of days trading length)

Also is there anyone that trades the UK/USA markets? I can only trade ASX during holidays however I am looking for markets that are open after hours. Can anyone point me in the direction of some good stocks to trade ie blue chip and on what indicies as well as any websites that have the timezones etc?

 

[x2rider]

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hi young gun
It will be interesting to see how it goes overseas tonight. With the cigar creek mine delayed it will be in a good position next year. There is definite support at $8 but with all the news about U coming from Howard the over trend has to be up.
Would of been nice to see it get over $9 and stay there but maybe next week.
Cheers martin

 

[professor_frink]

Re: First Couple of CFD trades today !!

sorry about that , the is a stupid attached rule where it has to be smaller than a certain resolution and I had to chop it down. This chart is over a 2 hour time period from roughly 10: 40 to 12:30 .

Cheers.
Nice work today. Hope you keep it up

 

[scsl]

Re: First Couple of CFD trades today !!

Young Gun, I'm very impressed at your foray into CFDs. I think it's a huge jump - from investing in shares to daytrading stocks via CFDs. And what a successful way to start too! Well done mate.

I'm also 19, and in a way, in the same sort of position as yourself. I've been investing in shares for two years now and started trading CFDs in April this year. However, I have yet to enter and exit CFD positions on the same day. The shortest CFD positions were for about 1-2 weeks, with the majority open for more than 3 weeks.

So have you previously bought/sold (traditional) shares intra-day? And did you open a CFD account for the sole purpose of intra-day trading? Please continue posting your trades as they come.

 

[scsl]

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But I am looking at going short on Paladin as my next move I think its looking a little sluggish wats your throughts ? ( as in for a couple of days trading length)

I think PDN is currently overbought - but you never know with a stock like this. What'll probably happen is that the day after I short it, it'll jump something like 5-6%! Looking at today though, looks like PDN had buyers willing to get in.

Also is their anyone that trades the UK / USA markets , I can only trade ASX during holidays however I am looking for markets that are open after hours. Can anyone point me in the direction of some good stocks to trade ie blue chip and on wat indicies as well as any websites that have the timezones ect .

I trade in the US/UK markets, but there are only two stocks I'm covering atm. Google Inc. (GOOG) was one of the first trades using CFDs and I've since done several long/short trades. Currently long - entry at $478.00. I'm not in a position to comment (as I don't daytrade) but I'd say that it's not a bad stock to daytrade. I've seen it drop faster than a stone in water e.g. it often loses $2-3 in a few minutes.

And about a month ago, I went long the UK BHP shares (BLT). I plan to hold for at least a few more months.

Regarding timezones, if you're in VIC, NSW, QLD (i.e. Eastern timezone), the following will help you. The UK markets open at 8am (for us, this is 7pm), while the US markets open after midnight our time: Nasdaq (listed stocks) midnight, Dow Jones 1am. Daylight saving starts/finishes will change this.

 

[Fab]

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I think PDN is currently overbought - but you never know with a stock like this. What'll probably happen is that the day after I short it, it'll jump something like 5-6%! Looking at today though, looks like PDN had buyers willing to get in.
this.

Yep I have to agree I think PDN is overbought that is exactly why I bought some more PDN warrant today. Last time I thought PDN was overbought it was at $1.80

 

[Young Gun]

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Hi Scsl,

I havent done intra day trading before or any other longer trades. The reason I prefer to intra day trade is because I prefer to trade the market at a given time frame and I feel like I can get a better grasp of the trends and also feel more in control if I invest only for a couple of hours at a time

 

[Young Gun]

I have had another couple of trades so far most of them exiting with a little profit however not much. I think the main thing I have to do to develop myself is stick with one position because at the moment I am tending to jump in and out which is useless when only entering into positions with $5,000 - $10,000.

I have started to up my money a little to around $8,000 as I found that with $5,000 the commision was eating away at any movements.

Two of my favourite stocks I have been jumping in and out of are zinifex and paladin. Both high volume and are ver volatile stocks jumping from +2 % to - 2 % midway through the day. My best trade so far was going short on zinifex in the following situation.

Entry Price - $17.85
Exit Price - $17.55
Value $8,500

This movement gave me about $150 taking into account brokerage and spread ect. I was actually very lucky because I was going to exit out of the position and my exit order was about to go through and my internet connection died. I then had to wait about 10 minutes before getting on and my position had increased about $200 in profit which is pretty significant considering I was using a margin of $400.

 

[Young Gun]

For those of you that are interested I am entering into my first medium term CFD trade today.

I have decided to go long on Lihir Gold once it hits $2.83. The price is currently at $2.80. Having owned this stock previously and wathcing it over a period of time its noticable the stock rebounds up and down like a yo yo everytime it hits the sub $2.70 point and the jumps back up to $3.00 ish.

I thought id have a bit of a punt on this and see how I go. If the share reaches the price of $2.83 a trade for aprox $8,000 will go through on a long position. Ill keep you guys updated.

 

[wayneL]

19 eh?

I wished I'd started at your age guys.

Go for it, be smart.

Cheers

 

[rub92me]

19 eh?
I wished I'd started at your age guys.
Go for it, be smart.
Cheers

I feel very OLD all of a sudden. Young Gun, interesting that you moved so quickly to intraday trading, which is a lot more difficult than a longer timeframe. However you are taking care of risk I believe, so all the best!

 

[Young Gun]

I started on intraday trading and I believe intra day trading is alot easier than holding a position overnight for the following reasons:

- Holding overnight means you have to pay interest
- Holding overight means your succeptable to any price annoucments / trading holts
- Quick changes in setiment
- You dont have as much control over the stock
- You have chances of getting caught with dividends in a position
- Often their is no guaranteed stop loss
- Especially more difficult with companies that trade before the market openning.

If you go with intra day trading and you go with the trend, "let it be your friend" its alot easier. However if you go against the trend with an intra day trade its like puting your balls in a vice!!! Its not pretty and it hurts.

 

[mswiggs]

Nice work! Good luck with the future, good to see you having a crack at such a relatively young age.