Tuesday Dec 8th and my trading's cold today (like the weather here in Colorado, single-digits and we're snowed in), in the red a bit as you can see from trades below; took shots at short ETFs but market chopped around, starting to bounce here 11:10am EST; we'll see:



Traders ask if I post examples of losing days as well as winners, yes I do of course, today's a down day. Key is keeping it small on net down days. Most of the reds/stops were on swing trades who triggered stops on overnight holds that gapped down/continued down into the open.

Strategy Tip: I often place buy/stop orders to get back into the positions I'm stopped out of, if they recover intraday (example I have a buy/stop order in for ELON if recovers over the 11.08, low-potential trade however, for long term swing recovery). Also have orders in for UAUA and other favorites.

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Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Thursday December 10th

Nice breakout wins in BGP CENX today using my ADX Mastery techniques; here's trade confirmation Proof from today's real trades so far, as of 10:37am EST:




Update 2:58pm EST Dec 10th, sold off GGWPQ/UAUA to extend today's winning profits:



Learn how to trade from a REAL trader, not a salesman.

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Dec 11th

Looks like airline stocks (CAL/UAUA) and SNSS have strong breakouts, here's my closed-out trades so far as of 11:03am today in my IB account:



Also THANKS to the trader who asked me about SNSS in last night's ADXMastery.com webinar, I traded it this morning and made a nice win,
selling (as you can see above) at 1.82 and again at 2.4 (the near-exact TOP), here's the chart:




BUYING THE BOTTOM BOUNCE in GGWPQ Today (small shares, 35 shares at 10:15EST):

Here's proof of a successful entry in this stock today, you can see I entered at 7.52, a great bottom-bounce play:



This was one rare instance of where I added to a currently in-the-red existing swing trade, because it looked like a perfect oversold bottom to buy; in this case it worked out correctly. This was the sole trade I made in GGWPQ today. Unfortunately I'm in from higher on the total position, so it's still in the red a bit. We'll see what it does in the days ahead.
TIP: It sometimes takes a very long time to get a fill on "q" stocks like GGWPQ; it took a few minutes (!) to get a fill on this particular entry; that's one reason they're riskier than regular listed/nasdaq stocks.

__________________
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Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

December 16th 2009

Mad a bit today, nice to see a "momentum doubler" win in penny stock DCGN today, I sold .27, the near-exact top, after doubling into the position 400 shares at .18:



Here's all my executed trades in my IB account today as of 3:27pm EST:

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Fri Dec 18 2009

Today wasn't good for me, ended up net down a bit as of 3:42pm EST, trying to trade volatiles like CECO/PALM, which didn't go my way:



As always, the key is keeping stops small when things don't go your way. Another day in the markets.

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Monday Dec 21st 2009:

Some decent volatility in BGP ZLC and others, just made a bit today though:

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Dec 22, 2009 10:29am

Nice breakouts in winners like today's AXL UAUA AHD CSIQ HTZ OWW; my only regret is I wasn't trading larger size, especially on UAUA HTZ, very clean sustained breakout charts.

Here's all the closed trades in my IB daytrading account so far today as of 10:29am EST:




Update 3:58pm - extended the day's gains which is nice, here's the latest P&L into the close:

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Dec 24th 2009: Happy Holidays to all...

Here's an example of trade entries from this morning, almost all were automatically filled via buy limit orders I had set previously, a good example of slowly scaling into breakout charts on small shares:




(these are not trading recommendations; these are just what I personally entered this morning for my own account, as an educational example you can learn from).

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Mon Dec 28th 10:13 am EST

Some small-share trading today, closing some winning swings, managing P&Ls, selling breakouts. I also enter new buy-stop orders to start scaling back in on ones I've just sold, in case I didn't sell the exact tops (which is very hard to do); so it gets me back in on positions I've closed out, starting over again from the beginning with small-share entries that then scale up in size if the breakout continues.

Here's all my closed trades as of 10:13am today in my IB daytrading account:

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Dec 29, 2009

Took more stops than wins today, mostly on airline stocks stop outs; got back in sm shares; trading ZLC SRZ CBAK etc for potential recovery/bounce plays on 2d highs.

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

January 5th 2009

Nice start to the new year net profitable +$432 in today's trades so far, as of 11:01am EST today, here's my trades:

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.

Jan 6th, 2010 3:38pm EST
Flat choppy market today, lots of small wins/stops in trades as below:

__________________
Good trading,

Ken Calhoun, Pres.
http://www.ETFMastery.com New Release on DVD
http://www.ADXMastery.com New for 2010
http://www.TradeMastery.com
http://www.ChartScans.com (daily alerts)
http://www.DaytradingUniversity.com
http://www.DaytradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingAffiliates.com
http://www.TradingTelevision.com
http://www.StockTradingSuccess.com (w/Steve Nison)

p.s. per sec/cftc/ftc regs, none of this is to be construed as trading recommendations, it's just for educational use only, so you can "peek over my shoulder" to see what I'm doing with some of my trades. See www.daytradingu.com/disclaim.htm for full disclaimer.
These pages contain excerpts of actual trades I've made; it's not a complete record of every single trade I make. Some days I'll take trading wins or losses that I do not take the time to screencap and post online; it's a partial record of some of my trades. Note that I am not making income nor profitability claims of any kind. Most traders lose regardless of what they do. The majority of my personal income comes from my training business, and though I'm a net profitable (small-share, under 5k shares per trade) trader, I make more income from my business training traders than I do in trading profits. I try to capture the best highlights of successful days so you can see practical examples of what I'm trading. There are also days in which I incur losses which are not shown. This is simply a partial record showing highlights of some of my successful trading days. No representation is being made that other traders, including customers, will be able to trade like I do. Generally expected (average/typical) trader results are that all traders incur trading losses and most do not become profitable, regardless of the training they get. Trading is a speculative, high-risk activity.