Ah… I am back. I haven’t even looked at the markets in the last few days. So back to trading today.

I usually trade from 10:15 until early afternoon. If I am trading options for position, I will trade from the afternoon to close. I have gotten away from that, and usually it did not come out in my favor.

So I think I am going back to my normal trading time, and I think that will work out.

~squid

Another good day on the street. The QQQQ’s took out my resistance at 43.45. It did mill around at 43.40 for a while. After running up, it ran into more pressure. And ont the way down again started to run into conjestion at 43.45. Once you go past a resistance level, it becomes a support level.

Wednesday QQQQ : Support 43.3 & 43.0 | Resistance 43.75 to 44.0

The resistance is a range today. I see strong resistance in that range, not just one number. I am moving support to where yesterday’s congestion cleared.

~squid

The market shows some strength on Monday. The cubes had started out above my resistance of 43, so 43 became the level I looked for support. The market did find support there, and rallied higher , closing at 43.27.

I think we will still see support around the 43 level, and my resistance level has moved up to 43.45 A pretty narrow spread, so look for a breakout on Tuesday. If support is broken at 43 on the downside, we should see more support around 42.75.

In the short term, the QQQQ’s are looking overbought. I still list 44 as a significant level on the upside.

I sold my options near the open. It may have looked like if I had hung on I would have made more. I do think “The first loss is the best loss” and I did the right thing by closing out. I did close out with a profit on the trades.

Tuesday QQQQ : Support 43.0 & 42.75 | Resistance 43.45
Short Term Resistance 44.0

Chart courtesy of StockCharts
~squid

I have been following Pete over at 1option.com. The only thing I don’t like about his blog is, well, the domain name. I hate domain names with numbers in them.

That being said, I do read his blog most days, and I am adding him to my blog roll.

~squid

The MAR 42 Puts I sold at the open. The QQQQ’s gapped up. I held off closing my positions until it looked like it was going to refill the gap. , then I closed the MAR 43 calls. They were leftover from a multi leg trade. I really screwed the pooch on that trade, but it still came out profitable.

Funny thing is, the spreads were less than sucky for the 43 calls. They were still sucky, but better than normal. On an open like this, the spreads tend to be pretty wide.

Right now, I am flat in my account. I have some things coming up , and I won’t be back trading until next week.

UPDATE : I did scale out gettign out of the trade. I sold some of the position first, then held on to the other part for a little bit to see if it was going to mive back up.