RE:RE:RE:RE:How to bring the price down IMHO were seeing lots of scalping! Scalping is just one strategy that day traders use to identify opportunities and profit from the intraday movement of stocks.
Scalping is based on an assumption that most stocks will complete the first stage of a movement
“a stock will move in the desired direction for a brief time but where it goes from there is uncertain” some of the stocks will cease to advance and others will continue. A scalper intends to take as many small profits as possible, not allowing them to evaporate Scalping achieves results by increasing the number of winners and sacrificing the size of the wins. It's not uncommon for a trader of a longer time frame to achieve positive results by winning only half or even less of his – it's just that the wins are much bigger than the losses. A successful scalper, however, will have a much higher ratio of winning trades versus losing while keeping profits roughly equal or slightly bigger than losses.
Just my 2 cents.
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ryenale wrote: Thanks. Always wondered about those small trades.
Charlie_Chan wrote:
That 200 share trade was to Latimer. Latimer has made 25 trades so far today and not 1 trade is deemed a "trade" as it is under the 500 share lot to be considered a "trade".
So what does Latimer do?
I suspect that Latimer is the quarterback of the High Frequency Trading brokerages and the # shares as well as the Brokerage they "trade to is a signal as to what the trading hedge funds will do in collusion as to shorting or going long. I am probably out to lunch on my theory but I would sure love to know what the implications are to Latimers trading.