Friday, July 8, 2011

Bought UNG at 10.63, sold at 10.58

On July 6, I bought UNG in anticipation of a move away from the lower trendline.




I didn't consider that Thursday is when the EIA releases their natural gas inventory numbers. The ETF plunged so fast that it didn't hit my stop.  I had placed a stop limit order at 10.47.

I decided to wait for better conditions on the 15-minute charts, since everything was oversold.

The next day it came up again and when it got near 10.60 I sold it back - I was lucky that I was able to minimize this loss, because the buy I placed on July 6 was absolutely bad. No preparation, no homework. It was practically an impulse buy.


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