HeyJaredBaytrading: Insights from an equities day-trader
Writings from a professional Australian equities day trader. Gain a unique perspective on short-term trading with detailed trade reviews, performance analysis, and actionable self-improvement tools. For short-term traders and market enthusiasts.
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Earnings Moves Are Getting Bigger. The Trading Edge Isn't. (opens the original)
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There was a time when earnings season felt much easier to trade.A stock would report a clear beat, gap higher, trade well and often continue trending for the rest of the day. If the result was good enough, there was a reasonable chance some of that momentum would carry into the following sessions.The same broad logic applied in reverse to misses.Sounds simple?There were always exceptions. Earnings trading has never been easy, and there have always been plenty of gaps, traps and inexplicable move
Market Observations- How Do You Know When A Trend Has Changed? (opens the original)
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One of my bigger mistakes last month was surprisingly simple. I kept trading stocks whose underlying sectors were in clear downtrends.I could often make a case for the individual stock and the underlying catalyst. Sometimes the setup itself still looked reasonable.But I was fighting the broader sector trend.If respecting the trend matters this much, perhaps it should be a central rule of the trading process rather than just an observation. But that immediately creates another variable: how do yo
Everything Gets Found Out In Volatility: Why I Had To Go Back to My Core Trading Skills (opens the original)
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July was a disappointing month.There were some good trades and ideas where I did the work. They didn’t play out, but I would happily take those bets again. There were also some glaring performance mistakes that undid a lot of that good work.Baytrading: Insights from an equities day-trader is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input"
Scaling a Trading Account Means Leaving Some of Your Best Strategies Behind (opens the original)
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One of the biggest challenges in trading isn’t necessarily finding an edge. It is recognising when your edge has evolved. This isnt something I fully appreciated when I first started. Like most traders, I experimented with almost everything before eventually finding an approach that suited both my personality and the way I wanted to operate. It wasn't until I moved away from purely technical setups and began incorporating catalysts, as popularised by SMB, that things finally started to click.Onc
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