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March 15, 2007

Play two sides

Survival and success in this market is all about flexibility and risk control.
No overnight positions--too risky.

March 14, 2007

keeping risk exposure under tight control

I have been trading both sides...very cautiously.
By trading cautiously and keeping risk exposure under tight control, we live to trade another day.
Let the other guy fish for the bottom first.
You can usually spot the lead guy in the charge: he is the one laying on the ground with lots of arrows in his chest.
Just trade 'em.

March 02, 2007

Continue Caution

It has been quite a week. The most volatility in a long time—mostly to the downside.
Stocks look oversold, short term, but downside momentum is too forceful to fight. Oversold sometimes gets even more oversold.
At some point, there will be a good bounce, but timing that right will be the challenge.
For the week ahead, I am willing to play both sides for the short intraday swings, of which there could be several in a day.
Play, but play very cautiously. And with tight stops.
I am NOT willing to take ANY overnight risk at this time. I don’t need the kinds of opening gaps we have been seeing going against me.
I go home flat, and I sleep like a baby.
Have a good weekend.

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About Me:

Almost nothing is known about the Mystery Trader. If there were anything much known, he or she would not be such a mystery, would he or she?

We can say only this: the Mystery Trader has been trading for a long time, has learned a few things, mostly the hard way, has traded all kinds of crazy financial instruments, has made AND LOST an awful lot of money, and has not died broke well, not YET anyhow, but there is still time for that.

The Mystery Trader writes these impressions and thoughts as a kind of an uncensored stream of consciousness journal or diary, largely for his or her own amusement, but also hoping these thoughts might help readers somehow, perhaps occasionally, prevent them from doing something stupid.

The Mystery Trader hopes that his or her thoughts might help YOU keep from losing YOUR shirt in the world's biggest casino. The financial markets are notoriously tricky and have ALWAYS been loaded with disinformation, deception, raw deals, chicanery, and outright criminal theft. Unfortunately, little of this bad behavior is caught and punished because the financial markets are too big and chaotic.

The Mystery Trader certainly and explicitly does NOT recommend that you blindly accept any ideas presented here or take anything expressed here at face value as actual fact. On the contrary, if anything, the Mystery Trader hopes that this blog might encourage you to think entirely for yourself and develop your own UNcommon sense. Be careful, have fun, and good luck!

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