Friday's Small Lots

I bought shares of four symbols under my small-lots strategy

sym	shares	entry date	exit date	entry price per share	exit price per share	result $	result %	annual rate	days held	tactic
BBD	11	8/5/2016		8.98						turtle
DF	5	8/5/2016		18.90						earns
IPAR	3	8/5/2016		33.82						earns
LBIO	11	8/5/2016		9.13						earns

I sold shares in one symbol.

sym	shares	entry date	exit date	entry price per share	exit price per share	result $	result %	annual rate	days held	tactic
GLD	1	8/2/2016	8/5/2016	130.40	127.72	-2.68	-2.10%	-255%	3	trend

GLD, which tracks the metal gold, dropped at the opening bell this morning,  moving the MACD histogram below the zero line. Analysts credited the high job creation numbers in the U.S.

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 5, 2016

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References

Tradecraft: Playing the odds to build winning stock market trades from options, a description of how I trade, can be read here.

Small Lots: A new strategy discusses the thinking behind the analysis that identified these trades and can be read here. The symbols noted in this post are intended fortrading on a commission-free platform such as Robinhood Financial.

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