The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority FINRA designates individual as a pattern day trader if he/she executes more than three day trades in a rolling five business day period. If you get flagged, your account is locked from trading any new positions for 90 days. (oh, tt has to also be in a margin account and … Read more
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. When the high volatility swing pulls your stock investment down by 70%, what do you do? You know you should have had a stop loss and profit target when buying the stock. You know that there needs to be a catalyst to get the stock to move back up. You know … Read more
It’s now February and the weekend has largely splashed cold water over the burning fire that was GameStop. The weekend was filled with articles about how redditors have “moved on” from GME and now looking for the next great short squeeze. There was an incredible amount of info pushing retail investors towards the silver market. … Read more
January 29, Friday. Expiration Day. The GME army is holding and continuing to buy GME. I get an email from Robinhood in the morning stating there’s limitations on the number of shares each account is allowed to buy: 5. A measly 5 shares only. It’s almost worse than keeping the buys shut off completely – … Read more
Robinhood. Webull. Tastyworks. This morning, these brokerages of mine got shut off from the ability buy stocks or open new option positions on GME and a handful of other stocks. But the ability to sell was still there. And institutional traders can still buy these stocks. There were other brokerages too that shut the ability … Read more
This week has been one for the record books – and it’s only Tuesday! So the super concise version of what’s happened. The phenomenon is called a Short Squeeze. To understand we a Short is a trading strategy used most often by Institutional Traders like hedgefunds to make money while betting that a stock’s price … Read more