This was the first play I made in the afternoon based on the stock uptrending the whole day. However, the uptrend occurred based on another company raising their price target for OHRP. This is not at all a trade I would recommend in the present day from what I know now. Even with earnings winners, which often do uptrend all day, I would recommend buying them in the morning on the dip in order to ensure the best possible entry point.

I made this play because it was a big percent gainer. Fortunately, it was a good play to make because the company had just recently received a decent sized order from the U.S. Navy. It also had news three weeks earlier of an agreement with a major aerospace company. This earlier agreement probably helped spike the stock during the boost from the U.S. Navy order. Always good to look at recent news seeking big events like these before making a trade.

Bought on morning breakout. This biotech stock had all sorts of news regarding its Hepatitis C trial drug. Several financial news outlets reported that the FDA lifted a hold on the Hep C drug being developed by this company. This caused the stock to breakout over several days. It always seems like a publicly traded company's stocks shoot up whenever the FDA lifts a hold or gives approval for a new drug being developed by the said firm.

Made this play purely off the technical momentum it showed early in the morning. I saw it was a big pre-market percent gainer, and bought it after the stock did an intra morning 0.20 breakout. That was pretty much how I would buy during this streak of good plays. Got burned badly on NETE later on doing this, and so stopped. The market in early 2014 was on fire so this sort of thing worked, but in the present I would never recommend trading like that from what I know now.

Traded this big percent gainer due to Lockheed Martin acquisition news. Plays like this can sometimes only be pre-market gainers, but since this was a huge and well known company acquiring a much smaller one the risks of not making something good were much smaller than if the acquiring party had been some unknown firm.

Bought this purely because it was a big percent gainer. First time I made a pre-market buy followed by a market open sell. Small gain; in the present I would consider it a speculative play. The 2 year chart of this stock shows a few supernovas. This trade was right in the middle of the one in early 2014 so it was good to get out quickly.

I thought I could play this stock again after the previous day's success. I was wrong. I did not know it at the time, but this stock was essentially an active pump when I traded it. It went up big time on crazy news that included a reverse stock split, and had dealings with Ironridge, a rather shady firm that has been said by veritable traders to be involved in more recent pumps.

First gain; second trade. This play established a rule that helped me make a decent amount of money off breakouts in the heady early months of 2014. However, the rule ultimately proved ineffective because it was too general. Now I trade by weighing pre-market % gainers, news, fundamentals, technical analysis, and volume of stock all together before deciding whether or not to make a play.

First trade = newbie play. Got excited at the Tim Alert for this stock, but then I fumbled the ball royally. Fortunately, it only resulted in an out of bounds play due to small position size. This lesson taught me to take a good look at the stock's price action immediately before and after market open before choosing whether or not to buy the stock.