So after its 10 day runup I went short at .25 50 on 21/6 in the last half hour on a bounce after it was sloping and just about to finish red on the day. What looked like a pure play and a low risk way to bank a ton tuned out to be a strange $5700 loss. I set a hard stop at .29 to protect myself in the strange event it did spike another day but that .29 a/h turned out to be the highest it got before free falling to .22 and I would've banked.
Debate: Is a hard stop a way to protect yourself a/h in case it does actually spike at the open and you get squeezed or is it contradicting your theory on the fact it will inevitably crash? Its all about odds and reliability in the markets and this play is as old as the markets BUT junk with awful charts have been hot lately and you can't rule anything out.
you have to listen Tim Sykes rules about stop losses..He always says Market makers can see your hard stop and they will make the stock go to that price just to fill and then it will go back up or down..But in your case it seemed like the Market makers seen your hard stop at .29 so they made it jump to .29 just so u can cover then they made it free fall back down to.22..Like Tim always say use mental hard stops,dont use Hard stops!!!!!!
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