Well today I bit the bullet and tried a new pivot point trading technique. My initial though is that it looks pretty promising!
I decided to concentrate on one of the big retailers as the RBA was releasing their "state of the economy" at 11:30 and all indications were pointing to more bad news after last weeks rate hike.
So I decided on Woolworths (WOW) as I know it's not normally too volatile and I could cover myself if things didn't go as planned. My volatility calcs showed it should have a range of about $1.05 today (ended up being a range of $1.07 ) so decided to shoot for 1000 share lots with an initial stop of $0.05 ($50).
I felt the RBA news was sure to drive the price down and the indexes were already in negative territory so decided to go for shorts only. As the attached image of the day shows, we could have picked up some good short term longs but I really feel uneasy going against the market.
The 1 minute chart below shows up until about 14:00. By this stage the price was so far below the pivots and stuck in a tight range that I called it quits for the day.
The horizontal lines are the pivots I was shooting for (seem to be pretty darn accurate!) and the top pane is a slow stochastic I used to confirm the signals. I was also working off the 5 minute chart for further confirmation.
NOTE: This was only a paper trade as it's a new system. Will see how she goes live over the next couple of days but am pretty happy with a $900 day after commissions.
Oh, and as you can see, I still need a lot more practice on my exits!!
I decided to concentrate on one of the big retailers as the RBA was releasing their "state of the economy" at 11:30 and all indications were pointing to more bad news after last weeks rate hike.
So I decided on Woolworths (WOW) as I know it's not normally too volatile and I could cover myself if things didn't go as planned. My volatility calcs showed it should have a range of about $1.05 today (ended up being a range of $1.07 ) so decided to shoot for 1000 share lots with an initial stop of $0.05 ($50).
I felt the RBA news was sure to drive the price down and the indexes were already in negative territory so decided to go for shorts only. As the attached image of the day shows, we could have picked up some good short term longs but I really feel uneasy going against the market.
The 1 minute chart below shows up until about 14:00. By this stage the price was so far below the pivots and stuck in a tight range that I called it quits for the day.
The horizontal lines are the pivots I was shooting for (seem to be pretty darn accurate!) and the top pane is a slow stochastic I used to confirm the signals. I was also working off the 5 minute chart for further confirmation.
NOTE: This was only a paper trade as it's a new system. Will see how she goes live over the next couple of days but am pretty happy with a $900 day after commissions.
Oh, and as you can see, I still need a lot more practice on my exits!!