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10-16-2014 Trading Journal

The greedy bear made one last pull and took the bull down at the open; but the bull had enough of the BS and climbed back up with such brute force that the bear could not stop the advance no matter how hard it tried.

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Price climbed back up in the middle of the tan area which was good.  It also didn’t take out yesterday low which was double-good.  Now, the bull is set up to move higher; but it needs to take out today and yesterday high first.

Today, all positions on board are in green.  I dropped $CERS and bought $INFN and $KNDI.  I also added to $AMRN.

$LRAD finally made a small bounce.  At this point, any bounce is good.

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Price did take out yesterday high so I believe we may see a bottom here.

$DMRC continued to surge ahead.

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Price is now touching the 79 & 89 MA lines which are also converging into one.  I believe price will simply walk pass this magical lines tomorrow and rally hard in anticipating of next week earnings call.

$ORBC, like $DMRC, has been rallying hard this week despite general market turmoil.

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Price is now gunning for $7 resistance.

$AMRN finally broke out of $1 resistance!

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I’m glad I added more in the morning.  As you can see in the chart, price is forming a smooth slow curve heading back up.  It will probably be a slow grinding up from here.

I bought $INFN today for the bounce up. I had bought $INFN in the past but got out too early and missed the rise to $11+ from my 9ish entry point.  Now, I see an opportunity to get back in.

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Price continued to bounce off the 79 & 89 MA lines.

$KNDI bounced hard after opening lower.

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Seeing price took out the opening range, I decided to buy some shares to see if this has leg.

Thanks to all six stocks going up, my port gained 2.4% today and YTD gain at 6.6%.

Current holdings:

LRAD, DMRC, ORBC, AMRN, INFN, KNDI and 2.8% cash.

From my other account:

With DOW opened negative and $KNDI opened lower, I decided to close $KNDI position while I still had some gain left.  Turned out it was not a good move hindsightwise.  However, this mishap was more than offset by my “another” fortune of $IBIO gapping up after I got in yesterday at $1.30+.  Without hesitation, I sold at the open to lock in gain once again.  Although I did not buy as much as before, i still enjoyed the gain.

My 2 cents.

My reminder:

Wisdom from Warren Buffet:

“With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can’t figure out when it will happen. You don’t want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you’re right about what, you don’t have to worry about when”

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10-07-2014 Trading Journal

Fore!  And the falling stocks fell all over the places…

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Just when we thought the market could continue on its merry way, the bear pulled the bull by the neck and yanked it backward.  Ouch!

I’d a very fortunate day today.  Despite being bombarded by falling stocks (4 out of 5) in my port, I was saved by the only one that counted the most since I’m overly weighted on it- $LRAD.

$LRAD introduces the LRAD(R) 450XL – The Loudest Long Range Acoustic Hailing Device for its Size and initial order was received from New York National Guard.  With a better and more powerful product that comes in a size that is compatible with almost all military and law enforcement mobile unit, I can see a coming snowball effect on product sales.  It seems like everything is coming into place.  Not to mention that their state-of-the-art mass notification system is also picking up speed in sales.

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Chart looks very bullish with today price action.  You could feel that the price wanted to go up bad.  Without the benefit of a rising general market, news of large order can still drive this one up big time.  So, I’m holding and holding.

I sold out all my $IBIO and moved the rest of the proceed to add more $KNDI.  Despite an immediate drawdown on $KNDI, I’m confident that price would eventually pick up and head north when news of China local provinces subsidies are approved.  The weekly chart below show that the overall trend is still up albeit some large swings along the way.

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Last week doji bar “may” just be a bottom.  Worse case scenario will be that the weekly 79 & 89 MA offer the next support.

Even with today correction, $DMRC still looked good so far.  The 5 MA line is still a good support here.

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With November closing in and $DMRC being inducted into the GS1 partnership. I say there is a high probability that one of the big five retailers testing the Digimarc barcode  is very satisfied.  My patience may be paying off soon.

$ORBC and $CERS are just fighting the general trend like every stocks.

Thanks to $LRAD being a champ today, my port was able to hold off the bleeding to only 0.5%.  YTD gain is now 4.4%.

Current holdings:

LRAD, DMRC, ORBC, KNDI, CERS (100% invested/speculated).

My 2 cents.

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10-06-2014 Trading Journal

Market opened higher but slipped on the banana peel once again…

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Oop! Market landed on its butt; nevertheless, it was keen enough to land on the 89 MA and the trendlines.  As far as I’m concerned, today was a hiccup.

I’d been eyeing $CERS for awhile so I decided to buy when it opened higher.  Despite the immediate drawdown after I bought, I believe this stock is finding its bottom.

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However, I need to see price trades above the 79 & 89 MA lines and not below it.  Let’s see how it fairs this week.

I was surprised to see the strength behind $IBIO and enjoyed the strong rally.  However, being mindful of having gave back gains from $HYGS not too long ago, I decided to become more pro-active in watching the intra-day trend.  After price reached the high of $0.98, I began to watch the 5 & 15 MA lines in the 5 min. chart.  When the 5 crossed below the 15 MA, I started to unload to lock in profit.  When I did not see any meaningful bounce after selling 50% of my position, I began to sell more.  By the day end, I sold 80% of my original position.  Meanwhile, I noticed that $KNDI was rallying hard despite that other stocks were going down.  So, I took the opportunity to use the proceed from $IBIO to buy $KNDI when it started to correct a bit from the afternoon rally.

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If you ignored the tall candle wick at the top, $IBIO actually had a strong day.  But the sell off after reaching $0.98 was too strong for me to ignore; so I took the opportunity to sell when the volume was there for me to hit the bids.

Seeing the strong afternoon rally in $KNDI, I felt the intuition to buy it.  The daily chart also looked good for a follow-up bounce.

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The combination of the hooking up of 5 MA lines and the two oscillators below also gave me the confidence to buy.

$DMRC tenacity to stay positive all day was impressive.

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Notice that the 79 & 89 MA lines are not that far away now.

Unfortunately, $LRAD did not fair well even though it had a great open.  However, I’m not worried about this one at all.

All in all, after adding two stocks today ($KNDI and $CERS), there were only two stocks down in my port.  Thanks to gains from $DMRC and $IBIO, they were enough to offset the drawdown from $LRAD and $CERS to give my port a nice gain of 0.7% with YTD gain at 4.9%.

Current holdings:

LRAD, DMRC, ORBC, KNDI, CERS, IBIO (100% invested/speculated)

My 2 cents.

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06-17-2014 Trading Journal

Bouncing away was the market way today.

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Look at that nice bounce off the 15 MA line!

$KGJI announced that its Board of Directors approved a special cash dividend of $0.08 per share of common stock to be payable on July 31st, 2014 to stockholders of record as of June 30, 2014.  Seeing that my yield will be over 6% even if I added more today, I bought more to round up my investment size.  I believe $KGJI is having another stellar quarter such that they have more than enough cash to issue the special dividend.

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Price spiked up but gave back much gain during the day.  There are simply too many investors who do not “believe” enough on this stock and its performance.  In time, this stock will eventually bounce and have its glory day.  I’m going to have to wait it out; meanwhile, it is nice to collect dividend while doing so.

$APRI took out yesterday low so I decided to sell my position to lock in small gain so I could use the proceed to add more $SWIR, $NMRX,and $KNDI.

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Price fell right back into the middle of the symmetrical triangle.  If it can not bounce off the 89 MA line tomorrow, it does not look good.

$SWIR took out the 79 MA line resistance so I added more.

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I need to see price continue upward and away from the 79 MA line to confirm the bull trend tomorrow or later in the week.

$NMRX corrected a bit but I added more anyway to round up my investment size.

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Price maintaining above all MA lines offered much comfort in my holding this one.

$KNDI rallied hard today and I added more when it took out the 79 MA resistance.

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Although price fell back below the 79 MA resistance, I’m going to see if it can continue the bounce.  If not, I may have to bail to lock in profit ’cause the 79 & 89 MA resistance can be tough to break thru.

$DMRC spiked up today but gave back all gain and some by closing bell.

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Price probably will bounce around here waiting for news.

$LRAD bounced nicely today due to news that it received $1.7 million order from an International Navy in Southeast Asia.

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Price jumped out of the consolidation range and closed above all MA lines.  Looking good so far.

$BIOS bounced off the 15 MA line and made an impressive run to the upside.

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Unfortunately, the air went out and price fell back down some.  Price, however, still closed higher than the 5 MA line which is a good sign.

Today, five of my stocks were positive against three negative. Due to gain from $LRAD, $SWIR, and $KGJI, my port gained 1.25%.  YTD gain is now 6.5%.

Current holdings:

LRAD, DMRC, SWIR, KGJI, NMRX, BIOS, AMRN, KNDI and 2% cash.

From my other account:

Look like I sold $TRTC too soon since price bounced back impressively today. But then, I wasn’t willing to bet on the permit issuance; thus no risk, no gain.  So, I’m ok with that.

My 2 cents.

 

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06-16-2014 Trading Journal

Market tried very hard to continue last Friday bounce.

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It succeeded to some extent.

$KNDI was showing sign of popping when it started to run after the open.  Due to strong showing at the open, I bought a starter position on $KNDI for the bounce.

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Chart looked good with price moving away from the 5, 15, & 89 MA lines. If it takes out last Thursday high of $13.44, I may add more.

$DMRC continued to run nicely to the upside.

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Today rally took out resistance at the $34.33 level.  I like to see it taking out the $37 resistance this week.

$NMRX rallied right off the 79 & 89 MA lines.

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Chart looked very positive for a continuing run from here.

$APRI blasted off from the symmetrical triangle formation to the upside.

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Although price gave back gain by after the opening range, price still closed above the downtrend line which is a positive sign.

Thanks to $DMRC rally, my port was up 1.25%.  YTD gain is now 5.25%.

Current holdings:

DMRC, LRAD, SWIR, KGJI, BIOS, NMRX, APRI, AMRN, KNDI and 3% cash.

From my other account:

I sold $TRTC today simply because it opened lower and the chart did not look good for near term perspective.

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See how price went below all the MA lines with today being the second down day against a resistances at the 15 and 89 MA lines?  I’m not going to hang around to witness a possible drop from here.  Thus, I’m out for now.

My 2 cents.

 

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06-06-2014 Trading Journal

Away it went… up!

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Look at the momentum to the upside!

Meanwhile, some of the my positions didn’t have the same momentum type of up movement…

$CLDX opened and headed lower which triggered my hard stop I placed yesterday.

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While price recovered to even before closing; it did not have the same upward momentum to have a new high bar.  So, I did not miss anything by stopping out at small losses.

I bought $KNDI hoping to catch a bounce with a tight stop below yesterday low.

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Nope, price did not take off like the $SPY and instead took me out by taking out yesterday low.  Looking that the chart above, You would think that it went out of air…Price also closed below the 79 & 89 MA lines.  So, I didn’t miss this trade for stopping out for small losses.

$BIOS opened higher than yesterday close so I bought back a starter position to test the water.

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I even added more during the day; however, by end of day I decided to close out my position for small gain ’cause I didn’t want to hold this over the weekend when price only bounced modestly today.

$CREE went out of air by the close so I sold to lock in small gain as well.

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With the $SPY shooting up, I didn’t want to hold any “swing trading” positions if price did not follow the same pattern.  $CREE gave back gain by the close so I sold.

$CLD also did not maintain the same $SPY upward movement; instead, it came back down from the intra-day high to settle back at the opening price to create a doji bar.

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Nope, I was not willing to hold this one as well when price did not follow the $SPY so I sold for small gain.  Notice that price could not close above the 89 MA line which meant that these two MAs are still strong resistance.

I searched my emotional connection to selling out my $KGJI and $AMRN earlier last week.  The reason to my action was nothing more than letting the “momentum” of selling of other positions to carry over to these two positions which I actually hesitated to sell.

“Why not?”

A simple “Why not?” pushed me over so I clicked, clicked, and clicked to sell $KGJI and $AMRN to my own chagrin.

Since $LRAD and $DMRC are my long-term fundamental play, I left them alone.

Regardless of my non-stellar performance of the positions I sold, $LRAD and $DMRC both gained enough for me to recapture 1.2% in my port.  YTD gain is now 3.3%.

Current holdings:

$LRAD, $DMRC, and 46% cash.

My 2 cents.

 

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05-13-2014 Trading Journal

Market was holding its ground all day at the new high.

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While the price movement was in small range, I considered it a great achievement that price did not fall back into the consolidation range. You could almost feel that the market is dipping its toe into the water on the new high territory.  Once it gets comfortable, price will have a high probability of continuing the rally from here.

After I read the earnings transcript on $AMRN, I believe that the business of Amarin may begin to grow from here.  Thus, I bought in when price was still down from the open.

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While price gave back some gain at the close, we still have a bullish engulfment bar that may increase the probability of a bottom.

Seeing that $KNDI was opening higher, I added some more.

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Oop! Price could not hold and collapse below $13.00.  ’cause I wasn’t watching the stock today, I did not have a chance to get out to cut losses quickly.  So I decided to give it a bit more time to bounce.  Price currently is still above the 5 & 15 MA lines; but if it breaks down below these two MA support lines, I may bail and cut losses.

I also added a bit more to $CERS since it bounced higher in the morning.

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But price closed on the negative at the end.  I’ll see where price is heading the next few days before deciding what to do with it.

$SEED spiked up today ’cause another company in China want to buy them out for $2.50.

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I’m aiming for $SEED to reject the offer and ask for more.  Thus, I placed a good till cancel order to sell my lot at $2.99 just in case.  Without any approval from the Chinese gov’t regarding $SEED GM seeds, it is difficult to justify a price of over $3.00.

$KGJI also staged a nice bounce today.

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Look at that tall green bar!  There is earnings coming out later this week; perhaps, people are expecting another positive quarter.  How many positive quarters will it take for investors to finally believe in the legitimacy of $KGJI?

$DDD continued its rally and bump its head against the $51 resistance line.

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As you can see, it went over $51 but failed to remain above it.  However, it still closed decently. Let’s see it tries again tomorrow.

$DMRC was down earlier but made a nice come back by the close.

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See how the tail bounced off the 5 MA line and now closed above the 15 MA line?  The most important part is that price is still above the 79 & 89 MA lines which mean the overall trend is still bullish.

Despite falling price from $SVBL and $KNDI, gains from $DMRC, $SEED, $KGJI, and $DDD more than made up the losses and push my port another 1% higher. YTD gain is now 8.6%

Current holdings:

DMRC, LRAD, SVBL, SEED, DDD, KNDI, AMRN, KGJI, & CERS (100% invested/speculated)

From my other account:

While $FITX corrected some today, I’m basically still waiting for the Health Canada inspection result.  Some people are getting impatience and bailed due to some “alleged” zoning issue.  Oh well, this is speculation at its finest.

My 2 cents.

 

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05-12-2014 Trading Journal

On Friday, I said sooner or later, the bull is going to break thru the resistance and make new high.  Well, it happened sooner than I thought, it made new high today. SPY_DailyLook at that green bar sticking out of the consolidation range.  Now, in order to confirm the continuing bull force, It is important that price does not fall back into the consolidation range inside this week.

$KNDI earnings report today convinced me to jump back in.  The fact that revenues increased over last year 1st Quarter meant that last quarter higher EV sales was no fluke. Although I bought after price spiked up, I was able to get some under $13; thus I am in the money on the trade so far.

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The chart above looks like the bottom has a solid foundation. If the momentum can continue upward, I may add some more.

I also bought back some $CERS for the bounce.

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Today had a bounce; however, I don’t have a strong conviction on this one since their earnings were not so great the last two quarters.  The only catalyst left on this stock is the FDA approval of its product in the US.  In other words, I’ll be quick to cut losses if price turns around from here.

$DDD opened higher and I was thrilled.  So I added a bit more.

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Price climbed back above the support from last year October.  Let’s see if it can take out $51 resistance from here.

$DMRC continued to bounce higher.

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Price closed above the 5 MA line today.  Let’s see if it can take out the 15 MA line tomorrow.

$LRAD also had a nice bounce today.

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Price is now trading above the 89 XMA line and the 5 MA line has crossed over the 15 MA line.

All my stocks in my port went up today with $DMRC and $LRAD leading the biggest gain for the day. Thus, my port was up 3.3% today and YTD is now 7.6%.

Current holdings:

DMRC, LRAD, SVBL, DDD, SEED, KNDI, KGJI, CERS and 10% cash.

From my other account:

Still waiting for $FITX to announce result of Health Canada inspection.

My 2 cents.

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05-05-2014 Trading Journal

The market made a dramatic come-back after opening down.

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Look at that nice green bar.  This can only mean that the bull still has some sharp horns against the bear.

$DMRC published a white-paper that further supports the benefit of using Digimarc barcode for retailers. As far as I’m concerned, laser scanning for old upc barcode label is akin to VHS technology.  Image scanning is the new wave and Digimarc is all about image scanning plus more.

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Price broke out of the resistance at $34 and closed nicely at $35.  All we need to hear is that a major private label retailer sign-on for the new Digimarc barcode and it may create a domino effect of other retailers to jump on board.  I’m going to hold this one for the long haul.

$KNDI woke up in the last hour of trading and price spiked up nicely.

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Price took out both the 5 and 15 MA lines.  I may add more using the money from the sale of $AMRN today if price can maintain the altitude tomorrow.

$AMRN did not continue with last week momentum so I unloaded 40% of my position at breakeven to reduce risk.

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The chart did not look particular bullish right now.  However, I’m still holding a decent amount for a possible bounce.

Thanks to rally from $DMRC, my largest position, and a few other positions, my port gained another 1% despite corrections from $KGJI, $DNN, $AMRN, and $DDD.  YTD gain is now at 8%.

Current holdings:

DMRC, LRAD, SVBL, SEED, DDD, AMRN, KNDI, NUGT, KGJI, DNN and 4% cash.

From my other account:

Waiting for $FITX to announce result of Health Canada inspection of facility and approval of license.

My 2 cents.

 

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05-01-2014 Trading Journal

The market took a pause today. SPY_Daily

See the doji bar near the resistance.  It could go either way… tomorrow we will find out.

I was quite impressed with $DDD transformation after reading their earnings report.  It has changed my perception of this company favorably.  I originally focused mainly on $XONE due to its metal printing machine; but $DDD actually made a lot of headway in this area as well.  Giving the bounce after the drop from the earnings news, I took the opportunity to buy some here as almost 50% discount from the previous historical high. DDD_weekly

From the weekly chart above, you can see the support goes all the way to early 2013.  If price remains about the same tomorrow, we will have an inside week that could serve as a possible bottom if this week high is taken out next week

Somehow, i can’t take my hand off the $KNDI machine.  I bought back a standard size position to see if it can bounce up from here. KNDI_daily

Price is still trading near the support so i will either get whipsawed again or finally catch the bottom from here.

$AMRN was holding well in the morning so I decided to add more to bring it back to the size I had two days ago. AMRN_daily

Price bounced nicely today.  If you look at the daily chart above, you can see the channel range from late January of this year.  Price seems to be bouncing off the bottom of the channel right now.

I had to admit I was a little hasty to add more $DNN after the open. DNN_daily

Now, if I could only wait… but it is hindsight talking anyway.  After the big green bar yesterday, price has to take out the low of yesterday before I start thinking about cutting losses.  Meanwhile, I’m going to give it a bit more room to fluctuate.

$DMRC took another tumble today but somehow I’m not worried about this one. DMRC_daily

Price is still above the 79 & 89 MA lines; however, it is my belief in the $DMRC technology that put me in a calm mode.  After all, I have to be in the position to take advantage of any favorable development.  Missing out the rocket launch of $GWPH by one day is a huge lesson for me to learn.  One must learn to take some reasonable drawdown to stay in the game for the event news.  Due to downdraft of $DMRC and other positions, my port was down another 1%.  YTD gain is now 5%.

Current holdings: DMRC, LRAD, SVBL, AMRN, SEED, DDD, KNDI, DNN and 7% cash.

From my other account: Nothing new here except to wait for Health Canada inspection and approval of the license.

My 2 cents.

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