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January 6th, 2016

January 6th, 2016 7:43:49 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Tech Trader currently down only about 0.3% while the market market down over a percent.  Pretty hilarious that CNBC just said the only stock positive in the Dow is Walmart (WMT), mentioned yesterday as the long side of a pair trade (STNG short also working).
January 6th, 2016 10:07:33 AM PST
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Tech Trader positive now with market down 1% thanks to sudden 6% jump in NFLX.
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January 5th, 2016

January 5th, 2016 7:19:51 AM PST
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Interesting pair trade showing up on one of my older Trendline strategies - long WMT (Walmart) and short STNG (transportation).  Again, these are older ones no longer run automatically but still interesting to monitor and get more color on the markets.

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January 4th, 2016

January 4th, 2016 1:03:33 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Great start to the year.  Overall market down 1.5% (at one point down over 2%) with Tech Trader down only 0.2%, essentially flat, and slowly increasing long exposure with two new names so far (HYG and SIG). Still 35% long only by 18% short (>60% cash).
January 4th, 2016 5:14:04 AM PST
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Seeing the China market chaos overnight combined with Dow down 300 pts before open explains why Tech Trader is positioned as conservative as it is for the new year.
January 4th, 2016 10:47:45 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Massive call bet on SIG identified by Tech Trader.  Almost $1M in 5% out-of-the-money calls expiring in 2 weeks.

SIG 1/15/2016 135x Calls, 5000@$1.8999
MV: $0.9M | $Not.: $15.0M | OI: 566 | 12.5% TotalOI
8.8% StockVolume | 42.3% OptionVolume
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January 3rd, 2016

January 3rd, 2016 7:28:06 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Tech Trader closed out 2015 with a very conservative long exposure of 39% and short exposure of 11%, a grand total of 13 names being held into the new year which is near the lowest exposure all year.  Overall, performance of the strategies in aggregate has been about 35% with a beta of 0.39, alpha of 31% vs S&P500 which was essentially flat.





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December 21st, 2015

December 21st, 2015 7:01:24 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Intraday bottom signals in XLV and IBB today.  Already holding SMH and XLB from Friday afternoon as well (those snuck in right before the close).  Personally hoping we keep going lower so we can really load up on more bottom signals before the bounce.
December 21st, 2015 7:32:45 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
lmao the price swing in IBB is so extreme ($3=1% in 30 min) that Tech Trader just sold it right back.  This is probably the first time I've seen it daytrade.  Keep in mind I don't explicitly code any sense of time in the system; it's all about price action.  This just shows how illiquid and whippy the markets are right now.
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December 18th, 2015

December 18th, 2015 7:15:18 AM PST
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Market down almost a percent already; Tech Trader is again flat for the day and now holding 5% lead over SPY for the month.  Tech Trader's immediate move back to 50% in cash right on day of Fed announcement was essentially the high of the market and couldn't have been timed better.
December 18th, 2015 1:17:17 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Market down over 1.5% now with Tech Trader still essentially flat.  Really stoked for next week to see if we get one last once-in-a-blue-moon SPY buy signal before end of year.
December 18th, 2015 9:17:18 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
More finance names breaking down on Trendlines today: AFG, MCY, THG, WRB
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December 17th, 2015

December 17th, 2015 10:46:48 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Market giving back most of the gains from yesterday (down almost 1%) while Tech Trader is down 0.1%, literally 50% in cash.


Tech Trader actually getting even more neutral here and slowly picking up shorts in Financials, two notable names today FIS on the breakout/breakdown strategy and AJG on an older discontinued but still interesting to note Trendlines strategy.  Another interesting name on the older Trendlines strategy would be EYES breaking to the upside.


December 17th, 2015 1:05:41 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Market down over a percent and Tech Trader essentially flat.  The MTD chart really highlights how Tech Trader is essentially just capturing the up-moves while sidestepping the selloffs.
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December 16th, 2015

December 16th, 2015 1:09:21 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Tech Trader up almost 2% today while SPY up 1.4% after Fed.  This and Tech Trader is only 50% long by 15% short (50% in cash) after scaling out of its ETF positions yesterday.  MTD maintaining its 3% lead above SPY and YTD at new highs.

The best part is that the bulk of performance came not from the market rally but from individual names (HPY, FSLR, HAIN...) that each had idiosyncratic news.



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December 15th, 2015

December 15th, 2015 6:56:17 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Tech Trader up massive today after perfect timing of buying nearly every ETF when SPY was at $201.  SPY now above $205.  Nearly every ETF bought up above 2% each.  Clean and simple trade - scaling out gradually now.

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December 14th, 2015

December 14th, 2015 9:29:26 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
SPY already back to $202.  SPY close to flat for the day and IWM still down while Tech Trader is already up a quarter percent.





Nearly every sector ETF also got bought on intraday bottoms.
December 14th, 2015 1:18:17 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Excellent day today.  Tech Trader came in with a flood of intraday bottom buys on nearly every sector/index ETF at $201 on SPY this morning; SPY just closed at $203.  Today, Tech Trader is up nearly a percent while SPY is up half that.  Lastly, Tech Trader is finally coming out of being 40% in cash only after it has missed the sell off in SPY.  Month-to-date, Tech Trader has almost a 3% lead over SPY performance with nowhere near the volatility/drawdown.  Great example today how we maintain performance while only being 0.4 beta.

Tech Trader's performance today (~1%):


Tech Trader vs SPY MTD (flat with SPY down almost 3%):
December 14th, 2015 7:38:48 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Tech Trader's intraday bottom buys just fired on nearly every sector and index ETF just now on SPY's dip to $201.  Long exposure literally went from 60% to 90% in the last hour. Tech Trader finally waking up now and putting cash to use.

No daily SPY bottom yet though (the highest conviction once-in-a-blue-moon signal). That one will be the big one.
December 14th, 2015 11:46:59 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
KOLD finally above $200 (short natgas ETF) and being closed out by Tech Trader.  Amazing trade and pretty much a poster child for our options orderflow strategy (nailing both the entry at $150 and the target price of $200).

Again, here's the original signal from November:
KOLD 1/15/2016 200x Calls, 300@$6.4
MV: $0.2M | $Not.: $1.1M | OI: 0 | 11.8% TotalOI
87.8% StockVolume | 43.7% OptionVolume

And here's the trade:
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December 11th, 2015

December 11th, 2015 7:45:18 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Each time the market sells off sharply, Tech Trader yet again outperforms the market and shows why it positioned 30-40% cash since November while being very hedged in remaining positions (60% long by 20% short).  Today, the market is down over a percent and Tech Trader is down less than half a percent.


Biggest winners today are again short names in energy/oil which have been set up for a while.  OAS has been closed out, but KOLD (short natgas) and more recently short WFT are now main proxies for this. 

KOLD, which we thought was insane for Tech Trader to project $200 target price on from $150 a couple weeks ago, is now $190.

Original signal below:
KOLD 1/15/2016 200x Calls, 300@$6.4
MV: $0.2M | $Not.: $1.1M | OI: 0 | 11.8% TotalOI
87.8% StockVolume | 43.7% OptionVolume

More recently, WFT was shorted at $9.20 due to someone buying $3.4M in premium on Feb 9x puts; WFT is already below $9 now.

Original signal below:
WFT 2/19/2016 9x Puts, 30000@$1.12
MV: $3.4M | $Not.: $11.0M | OI: 14389 | 11.0% TotalOI
40.3% StockVolume | 53.2% OptionVolume

Month to date for Dec, Tech Trader is down slightly but now holding over a 1.5% lead on SPY with half the volatility and 0.34 beta.  Personally hoping we sell off more so we can get our once-in-a-blue-moon RSI2 SPY signal again and just kill it for the end of year.
December 11th, 2015 8:27:50 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Some new longs the last few days have been in consumer.  It looks like Tech Trader might be slowly rotating back into consumer here after things have sold off so much.  HAIN is the most interesting one today, with $1.8M bought in a single call trade.  Note the expiration the calls though (May next year); it's almost like a value play and not a short term bounce that TT is looking for here.

HAIN 5/20/2016 40x Calls, 5000@$3.65
MV: $1.8M | $Not.: $10.1M | OI: 336 | 23.1% TotalOI
13.8% StockVolume | 87.3% OptionVolume
December 11th, 2015 9:34:24 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
S&P down almost 2% now.  Tech Trader not moving at all and still only down half a percent.
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December 7th, 2015

December 7th, 2015 6:34:02 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Market open down slightly today but oil and other energy-related instruments are down a lot again.  Really good for our positioning in KOLD (short natgas) and OAS (short oil).
December 7th, 2015 8:20:32 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
KOLD is up 18% since we entered it.  (it's an inverse ETF on natgas, so we're bearish on natgas)

The original signal was someone betting that KOLD would get to 200x from 150 by Jan, which seemed crazy, but here we are at 172 already.  Pretty amazing stuff.

KOLD 1/15/2016 200x Calls, 300@$6.4
MV: $0.2M | $Not.: $1.1M | OI: 0 | 11.8% TotalOI
87.8% StockVolume | 43.7% OptionVolume

December 7th, 2015 8:40:24 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Huge call buying on AMJ just now.  $2.8M in premium on just out of the money calls.

AMJ 3/18/2016 26x Calls, 19528@$1.4099
MV: $2.8M | $Not.: $19.4M | OI: 0 | 28.5% TotalOI
10.2% StockVolume | 75.8% OptionVolume
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December 4th, 2015

December 4th, 2015 6:08:54 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Oil getting crushed now due to OPEC not cutting.  Tech Trader positioned beautifully by being hugely short oil/energy names while being net long overall in tech and other names least affected by oil.  The icing on the cake is SPY is actually up almost a percent today as well while oil/energy names are down almost 10% a piece.

Naturally you see Tech Trader's long and short positions both doing very well today.


Month-to-date, Tech Trader continues to outperform SPY by a percent with half the volatility.
December 4th, 2015 6:45:11 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Very awesome trade in OAS (still holding until close).  It shorted this name a month ago due to noticing large buyers of 10-strike December puts in OAS when OAS itself was $12, and now OAS is at $9.40, well below $10.  This is the kind of stuff Tech Trader picks up on.

Here's the original orderflow info TT saw back from Nov.13:
OAS 12/18/2015 10x Puts, 12260@$0.75
MV: $0.9M | $Not.: $3.8M | OI: 1189 | 7.9% TotalOI
11.6% StockVolume | 53.2% OptionVolume

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December 3rd, 2015

December 3rd, 2015 11:10:38 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Going to be awesome if we can get yet another once-in-a-blue-moon RSI2 SPY bottom. Supposed to only happen a couple times a year and we've already had 3 in 2015.  Price has to get below $206 first though to start be considered.
SPY on Tech Trader
December 3rd, 2015 1:53:42 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Very strong day again.  Tech Trader down a bit at -0.5%, but SPY is down over a percent.  The stock selection really shines today with Tech Trader still being 75% long and 25% short (25% in actual cash).  Again Tech Trader is short a lot of retail and oil names (KOLD, OAS, HAS...) while being long tech/cybersecurity/internet (PANW, BABA, NFLX...).  We also just got an intraday bottom signal in XBI at the last hour; usually we get a couple more ETFs before the real bounce but we'll see.

Month-to-date Tech Trader is slightly positive vs SPY being down about 1.5%.  Situations like this show how Tech Trader outperforms the market while maintaining a low beta of 0.4.

My hope now is actually for the market to sell off further not only to really show Tech Trader's selection strength but to also get my highest conviction RSI2 SPY bottom signal, but it's only a hope.



December 3rd, 2015 1:05:27 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Ugh, lost my signal. So aggravating.
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December 2nd, 2015

December 2nd, 2015 7:47:09 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Very strong day.  Tech Trader up 1% while SPY is flat or down.  Tech Trader is again (since November) actually 75% long by 25% short, meaning it's leaving a lot in cash while being pretty tight exposure wise, but it's still managing to catch most the return of SPY the last couple days w/o the beta.  If the market sells off, we actually do better because Tech Trader has been shorting a lot of retail and oil names (KOLD, OAS, HAS...) while being long tech/cybersecurity/internet (PANW, BABA, NFLX...).



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December 1st, 2015

December 1st, 2015 9:38:51 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
A lot of suspicious options buying today.  Very strange.  $1M lots in options on CCL, CPB.

CCL 1/15/2016 55x Calls, 17800@$0.75
MV: $1.3M | $Not.: $22.5M | OI: 9492 | 29.1% TotalOI
31.7% StockVolume | 80.2% OptionVolume

CPB 2/19/2016 50x Puts, 10997@$0.9499
MV: $1.0M | $Not.: $16.4M | OI: 408 | 53.3% TotalOI
22.0% StockVolume | 82.3% OptionVolume
Not
December 1st, 2015 9:39:43 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Correction - put buying in CPB, not calls
December 1st, 2015 10:31:39 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
$1M in SMH puts now.  So strange.  Maybe something to do w/ first of the month.
SMH 1/15/2016 56x Puts, 5000@$2.0499
MV: $1.0M | $Not.: $15.4M | OI: 226 | 6.3% TotalOI
31.9% StockVolume | 47.8% OptionVolume
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November 18th, 2015

November 18th, 2015 11:00:55 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Very incredible day.  Tech Trader's once-in-a-blue-moon RSI2 SPY signal is finally out of its position, and there is literally no better price it could have done so.  It's been one of the longer held trades for sure, but we basically rallied all the way up to $209 today, which was actually Tech Trader's original target price before TT took its gains.  Again, in the face of rate increase, terrorist attacks, and even the Fed minutes which sparked the late-day rally today, Tech Trader's hitrate on this strategy remains 100%.


The funniest part about all this is I spent most the trading day looking for WiFi spots in HK (disgusting place to wander at night, really).  Fate and Irony at its best when I physically cannot trade and Tech Trader is just killing it without me.  The weekly calls on SPY I put on with TT yesterday were exploding all day with me nowhere in sight (but under the care of Tech Trader of course).

Performance from Tech Trader on today alone.  Needless to say SPY singlehandedly contributed more than 1% to the portfolio.


Year-to-date, Tech Trader is again back to highs, with the small dip being the November sell off.  Sector-wise, ETFs are quickly becoming among the top contributers to performance, meaning trading SPY just these 3 or so times this year has been almost as much P&L as trading an entire sector all year long.

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November 17th, 2015

November 17th, 2015 1:37:19 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Ah it's like someone heard our call.  Market closed just shy of Tech Trader's exit target.  We'll be fighting for at least another day. Tongue

Very interesting day though.  It seems like right around mid-day, someone of size started liquidating heavily.  Anyone who trades intraday can see that there were a lot of attempts to rally only for someone to sell into each one.  If it were the general market sentiment, you wouldn't see such sustained sell pressure every time the market attempted to bounce; it'd be much more choppy.

Also having a lot of fun on my end daytrading the heck out of this market.  Been a long time, but I'm starting to get back into the hang of things, especially with Tech Trader as sort of my guide for where to aim my trading (target prices, etc).

A ton of scalping and scaling, but it feels great to be back.  Also just loving trading from Asia. You trade at night and live during the day.  It's like your days are twice as long.  A taste of my trades from just the last two days lol
November 17th, 2015 8:44:13 AM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
There goes SPY hitting $207 just now, Tech Trader's price target from yesterday (today it'll sell anywhere above $206.5 at the close, which is pretty much the same).  Pretty amazing how accurate these targets can be given SPY was trading around $202 when Tech Trader was calling for it.

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November 16th, 2015

November 16th, 2015 1:31:28 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
Amazing day.  Tech Trader's RSI2 SPY signal was a day early but nonetheless we got our huge rally as to be expected.  The RSI2 SPY's 100% hitrate remains intact!

Originally it wanted to exit at $209 on the first day and then $207 today; we got pretty close but no dice.  Tomorrow it'll exit end of day above $205, so it's pretty much one day left for this trade.  It can still very well get its original target prices since it waits the day out.  We'll see.  This has admittedly been one of the bumpier signals this year.


And on a day like this, you can easily guess the sole driver of the majority of P&L today.
November 16th, 2015 12:26:01 PM PST
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pftq (Official) says on The Tech Trader Wall...
A day early but Tech Trader's once-in-a-blue-moon SPY signal killing it again.  Target has downgraded from 209 to 207 for today; will downgrade to 205 tomorrow if we don't head to 207 by today but things are getting crazy. Grin