Mindful Trader Commentary For January 24, 2023


Hey Guys,


First, let me clarify that only the Triggered List was showing oddities this morning. My live trading pages all showed actual trades I made.


Here's an example of the price stamp oddities that were showing up:



If you look at that last bar, the one on the far right, look how enormous that lower "wick" is. This is for the ticker CB, which is one I own, and you can see the price wick goes right through my stoploss price, yet my stoploss didn't actually get filled. That's an indicator that it was a price stamp error.


And interestingly, that price stamp error occurred at a root data source, because not only did it show up in charts in my trading platform, but also in the data feed Mindful Trader uses to track real time stock prices.


I see these price stamp errors every once in a while, but I don't recall ever seeing them for so many tickers right at the same time.


What action do you need to take? None, other than to be aware that the Triggered List today reflects a bunch of trade opportunities that were falsely activated due to these bad price stamps. So just for today, be cautious of any trades that showed up on the Triggered List at the opening bell.


I was able to dig through the rubble and find some bonafide trade opportunities, though. In the main account, I bought shares of BRO and IFF. In the double down account, I bought shares of MGA and some more BRO. Notice that I bought BRO in both accounts, but at different prices. That's because the first helping was for my main pullback trading strategy, and the second helping was at a lower price for my double down trading strategy.


I had a nice string of profit targets that got hit in the last 24 hours. My AAP and VFC options both hit the profit target. So did my PNC and NTRS stock positions.


If you have any questions or feedback, I'd love to hear from you.


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