Sentences with phrase «closing stock positions»

Day trading refers to the act of opening and closing stock positions within a trading day, with the hopes of making quick profits from small intraday price movements.

Just closed all stock positions....

The rules I have is when the SP - 500 breaks its 50 week exponential moving average, I close all stock positions, tighten my stop losses, and go to cash and / or maybe bonds depends on the interest environment.

Not exact matches

Miller said the closest he came to having half of his fund in one asset was having large positions in three stocks in the 1990s.

I established a partial position in Starbucks ($ SBUX) in mid-September when the stock pulled back close to it's 52 week lows.

Last Friday, for example, 5 of our 7 open positions (all long) moved higher, even though not a single one of the main stock market indexes closed in positive territory.

I have also already closed most of the winning positions in the ETF and stock portfolios of the newsletter by tightening stops to protect profits.

That October, Buffett exercised all of its warrants to purchase 10.7 million shares of GE's common stock, a position valued at $ 264.76 million based on the closing price on the date the shares were delivered.

Accordingly, we immediately closed out existing long positions and are no longer to stalking the buy side of the stock market for new trade entries.

The fundamentals no longer look strong enough for us to continue recommending the stock as one of our top long ideas, so we are closing this position with respectable gains and outperformance.

estimate of annual income from a specific security position over the next rolling 12 months; calculated for U.S. government, corporate, and municipal bonds, and CDs by multiplying the coupon rate by the face value of the security; calculated for common stocks (including ADRs and REITs) and mutual funds using an Indicated Annual Dividend (IAD); calculated for fixed rate bonds (including treasury, agency, GSE, corporate, and municipal bonds), CDs, common stocks, ADRs, REITs, and mutual funds when available; not calculated for preferred stocks, ETFs, ETNs, UITs, international stocks, closed - end funds, and certain types of bonds

When stocks are so indecisive on a day to day basis, it may be a decent market environment for daytraders who exit all their positions by every day's close.

We shall close the position if the stock falls below the trendline.

Their portfolio simulation approach: (1) is restricted to the technology, industrials, health care, financials and basic materials sectors; (2) assumes an extreme sentiment day for a stock has at least four novel news items (prior to 3:30 PM in New York) and is among the top 5 % of average daily positive or negative events; (3) makes portfolio changes at market close; (4) holds positions for 20 days, subject to a 5 % stop - loss rule and a 20 % take - profit rule; (5) constrains any one position to 15 % of portfolio value; and, (6) assumes round - trip trading friction of 0.25 %.

The significant reduction in stock price and embedded market expectations diminishes the downside risk and we are closing the position.

Hold winning stocks through earnings season OR close positions ahead of quarterly earnings reports.

I don't know about Combs, but Hempton is wrong on Weschler I think, who is known for owning very concentrated positions in very few stocks and holding them for years (he compounded money at around 25 % annually for 12 years in his fund before closing it to go work for Buffett, and the majority of his returns came from just a few positions that he held the entire life of the fund).

Our stock screener (http://screener.morpheustrading.com) does not advise when to close the position, nor does it advise exactly when to buy.

In this blog post, I walk through the «before» and «after» stock charts of two winning trades that were recently closed, as well as one open position that is looking good.

A short squeeze is a situation in which a heavily shorted stock or commodity moves sharply higher, forcing more short sellers to close out their short positions and adding to the upward pressure on the stock.

Although the turnaround in the stock's fortunes may only prove to be temporary, few short sellers can afford to risk runaway losses on their short positions and may prefer to close them out even if it means taking a substantial loss.

The investor later closes out the position by returning the borrowed security to the stock lender, typically by purchasing securities on the open market.

As I have mentioned previously I simply run a nightly scan of Long and Short stock candidates hitting 52 week highs / lows and keep note of these stocks and over the course of the coming days and weeks I look for which stocks keep hitting the parameters of my scans before taking a closer look at the chart, once I see there is a clean smooth trend be it going up or down I then calculate from that afternoons closing price and where the stop loss would need to be positioned on the first day the trade is placed in line with my risk management and then simply wait for the open the following day to open the trade then my system does the rest.

They advertise $ 0 closing trades, but they do charge a commission to open a position (which is currently $ 5 for stocks).

This serves to exit your position, much like selling a stock in the equity markets closes a trade.

If you want to avoid having the stock assigned and losing your underlying stock position, you can usually buy back the option in a closing purchase transaction, perhaps at a loss, and take back control of your stock.

• Trimmed JNJ and PEP each back to 9 % of the portfolio to get them under the 10 % - max guideline • With the proceeds, added to existing positions in AT&T (T) and Microsoft (MSFT) • With the remaining proceeds, started a new position in Digital Realty Trust (DLR) Thus, this package of trades served several strategic goals at the same time: • It corrected the over-sized positions by getting them back under 10 % of the portfolio • It allowed me to increase my stakes in two high - quality dividend growth companies • It allowed me to add a new position, bringing me closer to my target of 20 - 25 stocks overall.

Just like stock: if you buy stock, you have a position; you close that position by selling the exact same stock, in the exact same amount.

There is little risk of the position incurring runaway losses, unless for some unfathomable reason the trader closes the long call position - leaving the short call position open - and the stock subsequently surges.

A short squeeze is a situation in which a heavily shorted stock or commodity moves sharply higher, forcing more short sellers to close out their short positions and adding to the upward pressure on the stock.

I established a partial position in Starbucks ($ SBUX) in mid-September when the stock pulled back close to it's 52 week lows.

Shares of stock offset a short position in the same stock, so the purchase, which occurs on the trade date, can trigger built - in gain even though loss won't be reported until the short position is actually closed, on the settlement date.

The stock is up 6.6 % since we initiated the position to close Friday at $ 1.05.

The trader can manage their trading schedule themselves, and it is even possible to open and close positions late at night or early in the morning before stock markets are even open.

Distributions from portfolio components have boosted the cash position close to 7 %, some of which should be channelled into the asset class that is well below target: EAFE stocks captured through the Vanguard Europe Pacific ETF (VEA):

The stock is up 36.8 % since we opened the position to close yesterday at $ 1.97, giving the company a market capitalization of $ 13.4 M. Following our review of the most recent 10Q, we've estimate the liquidation value to $ 19.5 M or $ 2.47 per share.

What happens if you buy stock to close the short position, then immediately establish a new short position?

The general rule for short sales for many years has been that you don't report gain or loss until you close your position by delivering stock.

In a common theme, the Fund has been selling down the position as the stock trades closer to our estimate of fair value.

You could sell your options, which is called «closing your position,» and take your profits — unless, of course, you think the stock price will continue to rise.

Their opinion is to avoid the stock and recommend if you are long, to close your position or monitor the stock closely.

You can then sell near - term calls against your position and target returns close to 10 %, with risk far lower than a general stock portfolio.

If too many short sellers are forced to close out positions at the same time, they push up demand for the stock, increasing price and deepening their losses.

As for closing out a position, now it's often the last / small step in a series of well - flagged trades — and the stock's ideally reached my fair value target... so move along, folks, there's nothing to see / talk about here!

We are exiting our position in Amtech Systems Inc (NASDAQ: ASYS) at its $ 5.65 close yesterday because the stock is trading at a substantial premium to our valuation.

Although the stock has risen some 18.6 % to close Friday at $ 0.51, ABTL is still worth 50 % more than its stock price indicates so we plan to maintain our position.

But a profit would be made if the common stock fell considerably more than the senior issue, and the position closed out in the market.

The stock is up 47.5 % since we opened the position to close yesterday at $ 4.10, giving the company a market capitalization of $ 36.7 M.

VFL is my 15th holding (including my employer's stock grants), so I'm one step closer to having 20 - 25 positions in my dividend investing portfolio.

The lesson I have learned from shorting stocks for the past 10 + years is that the short position should be held for a very short time i.e. the trade should be closed on the same day.