Yesterday, I impulse traded; something I want to avoid making a habit of. 

$TNDM made some decent gains on Monday, and floated around $1/share. It had some news (diabetic insulin pump.. as a diabetic, this interests me :D don't fall in love with the story, right?), good gains, I thought this might be primed for a good overnight/morning move (I'd like to see 10-20%, of course). But, the aftermarket dropped, volumes weren't good, and it opened lower. 

$ALQA is another decent mover from Monday. Not only that, but it broke to NHOD near the EOD and was off a penny of the HOD at close. It had some good volume early into after hours, so I picked up some thinking the same play as above: Hold and sell into a morning spike. Overnight, some folks finally figured out what the news was (approval of a silver bandaging?); again, thinking a lot of folks may have missed news and would be buying into the morning. 

The market overall is going down. And, frankly, I think both of these were decently set-up plays, but what the fuck do I know, I've got just a handful of trades behind me and I don't know shit. 

As I type, both stocks are below what I sold them for, so bully me for getting out when I did. I'll watch for a bounce later today but both stocks are just... flat. no real chop, no swings. $50 loss day, could've been worse.

Another lesson: You can't trade if your money is tied up in other things. I totally missed $LINU on the runup because I was too focused on not losing my ass on the other two trades. I'm sure some of you folks are making out like bandits. Give em hell.