November 4th Week

 Focus this week is on keeping watchlist small. Sizing up on adds. 


Monday

TXN on 1st watch, semi name, breaking out, 9/10. Sizing up at bell if we get the trigger. 

Gone at open, no chance, but failed and lost more

Other names dropping lower. Indices up, but short names dropped pretty good. Tough to get in though having to wait on pullbacks. No reasons to chase. 

BYND pb to bo level and vwap, in on rejection. Market has been ripping higher though. Names im witching are weak though, not super clear conditions. Tape and vol is favorable to downside though. 

SQ same case, in as it left lower from vwap and added. 

SQ down to LOD and BO level and stuttered. Made 1min hi I took, then it broke lower right away, missed out on huge win. 

Split focus on SQ and BYND. Saw tape was jumping up and failing breakdown, market clearly not weak, protected and took half off with tape. Chart never broke above 1 min high. Shooting self in the foot again. 

Focus on BYND was ready to cut for loss so was concerned about that rather than letting SQ run. 

SQ hidden refresh sell appeared. Once broke, all out.


Tuesday

More shorts than longs. Market saw big pull in, looking like others want to do the same

LVS 1st, had nice trigger, stalled, then momo add, then stuffed hard, and lost hard. 

BBBY next had big run up and clear bullish buy ups. Market also turning up came into vwpa and 9 and D level, bounced in and added.

And dumped under vwap all out. 

BP done already. 2 losers. 

I was way to early on BBBY, no range had been made, had I waited for it to test under vwap, entry would have been so much cleaner and obvious. 


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