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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Exit. About 6-7% gain for today. Not too shabby.

We are going to exit that call for about a 6-7% gain for the day, not too shabby.
QQQ Apr16 110 Call 0.86 0.86 0.87 2,074
More tomorrow.

Tradinginsider

Hey guys keep holding

And while you hold, I have a funny video for you to watch. Do people annoy you at bars?

Enjoy
Tradinginsider

Hi guys...Ive been away. But check this out...

Its a good time for a call. Ive been looking at the charts. We are going to get in with a call.
QQQ Apr16 110 Call 0.82 0.82 0.83 1,706
Thats all for now

Tradinginsider

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Looks like a double bottom

We are going to get in for a double down as this looks like it just bottomed again. Our in is below:
QQQ AprWk1 107.5 Call 0.87 0.92 0.94 317
Thats all for now, see you in a bit.

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

As this is a free site, I decided to take a few days off. That being said, I think now is a good time to jump in as the indicators are saying that we are near a bottom.
QQQ AprWk1 107.5 Call 1.15 1.03 1.05 187
I will be watching this today

Tradinginsider

Friday, March 18, 2016

Exit call for profit

Exit the call option for profit. I have to go on some errands so that will be it for today, all we did today was print money. Our out is below:
QQQ MarWk4 107 Call 0.90 0.91 0.92 6,171
I may or may not be back 10 minutes before market close come on back to see if I issue an order then to hold over the weekend.

Tradinginsider

Enter QQQ call option

Time for a call option. Look at the below chart and go over my orders. See the timing with the technical indicators Im using?

Below is the order:
QQQ MarWk4 107 Call 0.77 0.80 0.81 5,753
More to come later today.

Tradinginsider

Exit putQQQ

Ok, time to exit the put for profit...
QQQ MarWk4 107.5 Put 1.16 1.16 1.17 3,194
Keep close, another order on way

Tradinginsider

MMMK..now time for QQQ put and here is why..

Its time for a put...look at this chart and tell me if you agree...

Below is our in:
QQQ MarWk4 107.5 Put 0.78 0.79 0.80 880
I will keep you up to date..

Tradinginsider

Now exit that call for

Exit the QQQ call for a one hour gain of 27%. Think about that. What does your money make in a year sitting in a bank or in a mutual fund? Sure as hell less 27%. Our exit is below:
QQQ MarWk4 107 Call 1.13 1.12 1.13 4,605
Stay tuned, we are going to catch things on the flip side.

Tradinginsider

QQQ call...good morning

This morning we are going to go with a QQQ call. I am prepared to double down if nessesary.
QQQ MarWk4 107 Call 0.80 0.81 0.82 1,932
I will be watching this this morning.

Tradinginsider

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Good Morning...sell yesterdays put for profit

This morning we exit yesterdays put for profit:
QQQ MarWk4 107.5 Put 1.46 1.34 1.36 349
Stay tuned today for more trades...

Tradinginsider

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

new top..time for QQQ put

New top found, we are going to hold put and hold this overnight.
QQQ MarWk4 107.5 Put 1.14 1.14 1.16
See you guys tomorrow...

Tradinginsider

Exit call for profit

Exit that QQQ call for profit..it just way jumped...
QQQ Mar16 106.5 Call 0.81 0.95 1.09 5,804
More to come

Tradinginsider

call on QQQ

Today I am issueing a call
QQQ Mar16 106.5 Call 0.76 0.75 0.77 5,443
Thats all for now

Tradinginsider

Going to bail yesterdays put

Bailing on yesterdays put....
QQQ Mar16 106.5 Put 0.91 0.89 0.91 2,547
Looking around for more ops.

Tradinginsider

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

QQQ put

Ok, I think its time to move in with one of these...my in:
QQQ Mar16 106.5 Put 0.98 0.97 0.98 1,883
I am prepared to double down if this gets wrong.

Tradinginsider

We exit yesterdays put+take the money

Today we are going to take the money and from that point see where this goes, because the chart is doing ths same wierd stuff as it was yesterday. Our out is below:
1.10 1.08 1.11 1,316
More to come,

Tradinginsider

Monday, March 14, 2016

Move on over, heres a QQQ put

I believe that its time to purchase a QQQ put. My in is below
QQQ Mar16 106.5 Put 0.93 0.97 0.98 3,864
Come on back the last 5 minutes of the day for further orders.

Tradinginsider

still sideways wierd action

I am still sitting this one out so far today. I am seeing some wierd stuff on the chart, and if I dont like what Im seeing, I cant recommend it.

Stay tuned for the last 2 hrs.

Tradinginsider

Something is not right about that call option

My sixth sense is going off. Im not sure whats wrong, whether it be the parbolic curve of the last hour and a half, or the fact that the option price is not climbing like it should be, tells me its time to get out. Our exit from Fridays call
QQQ Mar16 106 Call 1.25 1.23 1.25 4,490
This yeilds us a slight profit. We now look for something else to get into.

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

I am considering exiting the call from last friday, although there doesnt seem to be that much of a gain in the option as of yet. I believe I am going to hang on to that call for a little bit and see what shakes out.

How was everybodies weekend? Good I hope.

Stay tuned, I will have my eyes peeled.

Tradinginsider

Friday, March 11, 2016

enter 106 call

Enter below
QQQ Mar16 106 Call 1.19 1.19 1.20 11,793
Hold over weekend.

Have a good weekend

Tradinginsider

Exit 106 put for a bit of loss

Exit that 106 put. Winds are starting to blow the other way. Below is our exit:
QQQ Mar16 106 Put 0.98 0.98 0.99 5,859
One more trade in 2 minutes...

Tradinginsider

Strange price action..options expiration

Well, I have been watching some strange price action on the cubes today almost as if the cubes were gonna get bought out at 106. I will assume thats a price that a lot of contracts are being written for. So we chill and hold. I will be on a bit later.

Tradinginsider

So where we are at today...

Just thought you would like to know what I am looking at right now as I am holding my QQQ put waiting for some action:

You can see where I bought in above, at the top. The cubes are on the ceiling and I expect a drop. If not, so what, I will double down (cost averaging) and still win in the big picture. So as you can see in the chart above and some of the indicators I am looking at are the RSI, which is the first indicator below the candlestick chart above and is in pink. The RSI is in overbought territory indicating to sell or put. The other two indicators show there was already a top. We are sitting pretty with our put and now its a waiting game. I expect action within two hours. Make sure you sign up on my twitter account and configure my tweets to your phone so you dont have to sit in front of your computer. And if you are at work you can do other things. When I tweet, your phone will ding then its go time. My twitter: MarkLaechel@tradecontrarian

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Purchase QQQ put

The 5 min candlestick charts and indicators say that its put time for the cubes. Below is my in:
QQQ Mar16 106 Put 1.26 1.23 1.25 2,128
Thats all for now, making good money so far today.

Tradinginsider

Good Morning 80% profit overnight

Remember that call yesterday, then the double down then the double down again?
My headline was exit everything, but then when you read the rest I changed it and instead said buy a third time, god Im greedy/
Well I never exited those three trades if you go back and read all that yesterday...Now I am going to exit those three trades while making some paper bank....below is our out
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Call 1.91 1.92 1.95 228
We were in yesterday at 1.30, then 1.06, etc. So this is 80% profit overnight.
Now exit all those calls from yesterday.

More to come today..

Tradinginsider

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Exit everything...

I want to buy more. Its at
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Call 1.09 1.09 1.10 1,435
I am going do do a second DD call.

God, Im greedy.

More later today

Tradinginsider

Double down on that QQQ call

We are going to DD down (2x) on that last call. Our improved in:
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Call 1.09 1.11 1.13 1,070
Thats all for now..

Tradinginsider

And now, a call to switch it up.

The techs say its time for a call. Our in is below...
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Call 1.30 1.29 1.32 703
Thats all for now, keep on keeping on.

Tradinginsider

ah...there we go

So. We recover. Exit that put from last night no profit/loss
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Put 1.55 1.59 1.61 851
Now come right back for next order...

Tradinginsider

Damn it, blue bar last 2 minutes again last nite

I had some crazy shit happening to me the last 5 minutes of trading last night. The phone rang. Got a job offer. Somebody downstairs dropped something. F'ing blue bar showed up in the last two minutes. And that blue bar while my shit was up in the air cost me about 30 percent because I didnt/couldnt catch it on time.
Faaaaaaaaaaack.
Anyway, here is the deal I am going to attempt to double down to clean that up. We are still holding that put from last night and things are bouncing all over here on the chart. I will let you know the right time to exit that put from last night or a good time to DD on it.

Anyway, I am enjoying the spring air here in Chicago. Much better than the 4 degree temps we had last month...now its in the 60s. Feb in Chicago seems to be the final yuck few from the North Pole every year around the second week in Feb. Ugh.

I will keep you up to date on your paper trading today,

Tradinginsider

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Hold put option overnight

Hold that put option overnight

That will be all for today

Tradinginsider

Purchase QQQ put

Time for another QQQ put to open.
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Put 1.58 1.57 1.59 590
Thats all for now. Remember the last two minutes of the trading day, although I expect to be out of this sooner that that.

Tradinginsider

Exit QQQ put for profit

We exit our QQQ put for profit
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Put 1.73 1.72 1.74 501
More to come later,

Tradinginsider

QQQ put

Time for a put on the QQQ.
QQQ Mar16 104.5 Put 1.59 1.62 1.64 342
Our in

Thats all for now,

Tradinginsider

We profit on the overnight call option

We profit on the hold overnight call option and exit: Remember we bought at 1.52..
QQQ Mar16 104 Call 1.67 1.63 1.65 1,457
More coming up in a bit..

Tradinginsider

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

call to hold overnight

EOD

QQQ Mar16 104 Call 1.51 1.53 1.55 1,810
Thats all for today

Tradinginsider

We are going to set up for an overnight option

But remember, come back here 2 minutes before close.

That way I can get the most accurate reading as to the direction that the market will open tomorrow.

Tradinginsider

Some funky movements today

Things I do not like, and will not trade..consider the below chart for today...

Note that the RSI is not moving to the top and bottom channels correctly today. I dont like that. However, that tells me a coiled spring is building up and I am going to have to check the daily to see whats happening:

So we are going to keep our eyes peeled on this setup that is currently happening. Also today there will be a trade in the last two minutes, so stay frosty.

More later

Tradinginsider

Monday, March 7, 2016

My Trading activity for the day

So far so good...we held a call over the weekend from Friday. I made that call 15 minutes before close and then 2 minutes before close there was a reversal, and a red arrow.

So from now on I do my end of day judegement call to hold overnight during the last 2 minutes.

I recovered off that with the first exit of the trading day, then I bought a put I then made money on, a call that went the wrong way, then I covered it with a double down call which then pulled a 30 percent gain.
Today there was no overnight option play. Below is a chart of what I decribed above, with the green cirles my trading points. Note the corresponding RSI chart directly below in pink.

Well, so far so good guys. If this keeps up Ill be making 20 percent a day easy, and we all know what that means with compound interest......

Tradinginsider

Exit DD for profit, exit other trade before it

Exit everything, the DD made a good 30%. Our out is below:
QQQ MarWk2 105 Call 1.00 1.00 1.01 13,858
That will be all for today, we made some money...good!

We will not be holding anything overnight today.

Thanks for following my trades!

Tradinginsider

DD on QQQ call

At this time we are going to DD on the qqqCall from earlier. Our in again (2x the money of the original at the new entry price below):
QQQ MarWk2 105 Call 0.73 0.73 0.74 10,308
Thats all for now...

Tradinginsider

Purchase call option

Time to get in with a call option on the QQQ. My in below:
QQQ MarWk2 105 Call 0.96 0.97 0.98 7,972
Thats is all for now, going to lunch.

Tradinginsider

Exit put option

Time to exit that put option for profit...
QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Put 1.23 1.24 1.25 2,358
More to come

Tradinginsider

Put trade QQQ

Now get in this trade and lets ride it down:
QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Put 0.95 0.99 1.00 1,517
More to come,

Tradinginsider

Good morning

Good morning everyone. We are going to bail on that call from Friday. Below is myout:
QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Call 1.02 1.03 1.04 3,515
It is a loss, we will try to make it up today. As I said yesterday, a red arrow showed up in the last 2 minutes of the trading day Fri so from now on any last minute end of day orders will be the last 2 minutes. Kind of a fumbling rush trying to get option order in, but thats whats going to have to happen in order to avoid any last minute change ups.

Back in a bit.

Tradinginsider

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Heads up

That trade I made 15 minutes before close on Friday might be going the wrong way on Monday. It was 15 minutes before close and I got a blue arrow, meaning the market would probably open up on Monday. During the last 3 minutes a red arrow suddenly showed up meaning open down for monday.
We will see if we can exit out of this if there is a gap fade in the morning.

Tradinginsider

Friday, March 4, 2016

Last call of day to hold over weekend

This is it for today...purchase the below and hang onto it over the weekend.

QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Call 1.20 1.21 1.24 1,956
Have a nice weekend and thank you for following my trades~

Tradinginsider

Exit that option now for profit...

Either Im having a miracle day or its gonna be this easy from now on. Lets take the money from that last option we purchased and we get out.

QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Call 1.23 1.23 1.25 1,921
Come back the last 10 minutes.

Tradinginsider

Purchase call QQQ

Time to purchase a QQQ call


QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Call 1.16 1.13 1.16 1,580
Thats all until 10 min before close...

Tradinginsider

Exit that QQQ put...now this is gettin goin!

Now exit that QQQ put for about a 20% gain. The out is below:

QQQ MarWk2 106.5 Put 1.51 1.54 1.58 363
This is the chart I looked at to get this info:

Come back 15 min before close for EOD orders.

Tradinginsider

Now purchase put on QQQ

Time for a put. Here is the info:

QQQ MarWk2 106.5 Put 1.21 1.16 1.18 323
We will hold this for a bit, possibily overnight, I will watch.

More later. Above is the chart I am using. Check it out.Why did I issue a put order?

Tradinginsider

I just realized that I didnt actually write down the put

which is fine. Stay out for now, I will tell you when to get in. I am thinking we will be getting in near the end of the day. I am watching the charts.
Actually I am glad I did not generate the put call. As today is expiration day, I would have (should have) gone a week out and not played with the current day of strike prices that are expiring today.
So that is what we are going to do. Come on back in about an hour or so and see where we are at.

Tradinginsider

Time for a put

Ok, the RSI just hit the top, there is no red arrow yet, we are going to jump on this and then watch the volitility scale and watch for any red arrow on the Volitility expansion.
Our in:

Now check out what Ive been looking at:

You can see above that the RSI just hit the ceiling (supposedly we will have to reaffirm that) and this is a good time to get in with a trade. We will double down if things keep climbing a bit (as in if this isnt a true top). So look above, see that the RSI in pink is near the top of the pink. Now could it keep climbing? Yes. Look at the beginning of the RSI chart to the left side of the above window shot. You can see where the RSI first hit the top of the pink zone but then the candlestick chart kept pulling up. Thats why we double check with the red and blue arrows. In that situation there was a red and a blue arrow underneath it, but the blue arrow was just after the red arrow so that on the chart the blue arrow was skewed a bit to the right in the time domain so that means continuance and that the chart will continue to climb.
The RSI is the first checkpoint, the Volitility expansion arrows are the last.

More later today
Tradinginsider

Ok, so far so good today....

I have evened out the keel on this ship by trading with the RSI and with the Volitility Expansion Strategy as a backup to reaffirm the RSI. My trades should stop whipsawing and I should start seeing a profit.

I will be back in 30 min.

Tradinginsider

exit the gap fade

Ok, exit the gap fade for 1.09 for a bit of paper profit...
QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Call 1.00 1.08 1.10 500
I shall return in 40 minutes..

Tradinginsider

Morning gap fade

Enter in this trade below for morning gap fade:
QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Call 1.01 1.02 1.04 96
I will return in 20 minutes

Tradinginsider

Good Morning

Exit overnight put for profit...our exit is below..

QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Put 1.30 1.29 1.31 281
Next trade in one minute...

Tradinginsider

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Ok guys..heres what happened...

Earlier in the day on Thursday I was having problems getting whipsawed. First of all the gap fade never really happened. Then watching the charts with the blue/red arrows, I was chasing. I would see an arrow, then zag, suddenly the chart would zig and throw a red arrow. Then the same thing would happen again.
Then toward mid day I got hip to the fact that I need to just be watching the RSI for entry exit points and backing this up with the blue and red arrows (see my previous posts.) This cuts down on the whipsaw effect and lets me ride out trades for longer periods and take minor reversals inside the bigger trend picture.
Also on Thurs I held a position overnight and I will go into Friday holding this overnight position. I will overlap this with my morning fade the gap trade as well.
Now I feel I have a good handle on things. I will be on 20 minutes after open for the gap fade trade.

Later on I will also recap all my systems and what you can do with only starting with 1 thousand dollars.

Good Night,

Tradinginsider

End of day trade to hold overnight

We are going to get in this trade and hold it overnight:
QQQ MarWk2 105.5 Put 1.19 1.20 1.22 746
That will be all for today, analysis on this crazy day later tonight, I found what was whipping me around earlier in the day.

Tradinginsider
New order for put:
QQQ MarWk1 105.5 Put 0.58 0.57 0.58 4,689

I will be back before close.

Tradinginsider

Exit double down

We will exit our double down for profit. The exit is below:
QQQ MarWk1 105 Call 0.84 0.82 0.84 7,678
More later today.

Tradinginsider

Shore up with a double down

Our current position will be shored up with a double down. The entry is below. Keep it to paper trading only. Our in:
QQQ MarWk1 105 Call 0.59 0.59 0.61 4,178
I will be in touch for any updates.

Tradinginsider

I am getting whipsawed

Following this live is a BITCH its like trying to grab onto a garden hose that is all the way on and whipping around on the lawn.

Reverse again. Blue fucking arrow just showed up right as I entered the last order.
Exit the below
QQQ MarWk1 105 Put 0.45 0.45 0.46 1,589
Now buy the below (yes all on paper)
QQQ MarWk1 105 Call 0.79 0.79 0.80 2,167
More later,

Tradinginsider

Reverse

Ok the gap fade failed this morning....exit the trade:
QQQ MarWk1 105.5 Call 0.46 0.44 0.46 1,207
Now enter new trade below:
QQQ MarWk1 105 Put 0.56 0.55 0.56 1,459
Tradinginsider

Good Morning gap fade paper trade

Ok our in for the gap fade is below
QQQ MarWk1 105.5 Call 0.54 0.54 0.55 396
See you in about 20 min or so

Tradinginsider

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Ok, all those paper trades from last two days?

Toss em. Ive been working on things in regards to how to use this chart, and its been pretty hard which is why Ive been so spotty with this blog, but I think I got a handle on it now. Let me go through with you what I have been working on. Here is a chart of the last few days with the indicators I have been working on.
I have a few points on here circled, with corresponding lines correlated to the chart. Here is how I figured that I would use this.
The backbone of this is the RSI indicator, that is the indicator in the pink strip below the main chart. It has the yellow circles in it with the letters that I annotated A,B,C,D,E, and F.
So before anything else, I am watching the RSI. When the RSI indicator hits the top or the bottom of the pink zone that is time to trade. Its action time. These times have been circled in yellow. Lets look at time A for example. The RSI hit the top of the pink zone on the indicator. All things being equal that means that the stock will top out and reverse and come back down from this point on. Now look at the yellow line I drew straight up from the circle. This yellow circled peak in the RSI correlates exactly to this point in the candlestick chart of QQQ, which here would be at about 10:35am central time. We go for it and open a put option trade on the QQQ.
However, we are looking for affirmation with the blue arrows/red arrows.
Looking at the main chart, you will notice that the red arrows are pointed down above the 5minute candle timing bars, and the blue arrows are below the line. If you only see a red arrow and no blue arrow, that means that the stock will go down. If you see a red arrow above and a blue arrow below, you then have to figure out which is first, or skewed to the right or left slightly in respect to the other arrow. See the chart below:

It is drawn by hand on the computer with a mouse, but it illustrates my point. There should be no more than a three bar space between arrows or else that means that arrow is probably just by itself, like the blue arrow all the way to the left above. And that blue arrow means up. When you see two arrows close to each other, one above and one below, look at them closely. If one is slightly before the other one, the second arrow will foretell the direction. In the second grouping on the left above, you see a blue arrow and a red arrow close to each other within three bars of each other. First is the red arrow, meaning down. But within three bars, a blue arrow shows up, this means up. So you purchase a call. You let things ride until you see a red arrow like at the top of the chart and within three bars you see it is alone, so you exit your call and purchase a put and let that go down. On the right of the above chart, two arrows again. But which is skewed a bit to the left (which is first time-wise as the bars go from left to right as they are real time 5 minute bars) and which one is skewed a bit to the right, or second. The red bar is a bit to the right, that takes dominance over the earlier blue arrow, so that means the chart is going to go down.

This is what I am going to be doing. I will fade the gap in the morning like I did this morning, and using the above charting to make about 2 or three more plays in the day including my end of day trade.

Its a work in progress, but I am getting good fast.

Tradinginsider

exit gap trade for profit

We exit our gap trade for profit...
QQQ MarWk1 105.5 Call 0.89 0.88 0.90 1,923
More to come today. Will be watching what I brought over from last night and any new profitible setups today...

Tradinginsider

in for gap fade

Ok, we get in for the gap fade...our in
QQQ MarWk1 105.5 Call 0.76 0.75 0.77 1,414
We check back in 25 minutes.


Tradinginsider

Good Morning

Im here looking at the opening markets. Will make a call 20 min after open....

Tradinginsider

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

End of day trade

Here is our end of day trade that we are going to hold overnight:
QQQ MarWk1 104.5 Put 0.49 0.44 0.46 3,114
So we are going to hold the above

AND

We are staying in both trades that I got into today and also holding overnight.

See you tomorrow

Tradinginsider

Ok, DD time

We are going to Double Down on this QQQ put and see how this flies...our entry below..
QQQ MarWk1 104.5 Put 0.62 0.62 0.64 1,726
I will be watching this in the next hour.

Tradinginsider

Good Morning...lots of noise until...

There was a lot of noise this morning so I decided to sit out until now. I think we are near the peak of this mini run so I am coming in with a put:
QQQ MarWk1 104.5 Put 0.93 0.93 0.95 344
I will be hanging around and watching this...

Tradinginsider