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Hi Brent,

Given you are marking your short in oil a $1.15 better, are you changing your stop and take profit orders?

cheers

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Hi it’s a good question I will leave the stop and TP as it’s more about the tech levels than the entry point. In future I am going to try to leave the levels blank and do those last so I don’t have this issue

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Fair and by the looks of it, good call .... came within a Bee's dick of triggering last night!

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Yes a bee with a small dick in fact. Small dick even for a bee.

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"Please don’t email me what a great company DOCS is, or how telehealth is the future. I’m sure it is!"

I bet you will still get an email

Great read thanks Brent!

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Hi Brent, I'm halfway through your book. I have been an investor for 20 years. I have read a number of classic books, Barron's weekly, WSJ daily, etc, and tracked my returns on a spreadsheet vs the SPY weekly but noticed that I was getting shaken out of investments prematurely. Your book and your method are invaluable for sizing my positions and holding onto them better. A big thank you!

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Nice to hear !! I'm really happy to know my book made a difference!

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Hi Brent, I am currently reading your currency trading book and loving it. I am a trader of 2 years, going off of what Pete H. asked do you use any software in particular to help you screen for equities in a particular industry? I know you said you filter by Price-to-Sales, is there a go to stock screener you use?

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Hi Brent,

is the link broken to https://www.spectramarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Trade-3-short-DOCS-framework.pdf ?

In the DOCS 5 min chart you can see the second spike quite well. Not so good on the hour. So rather look for volume on smaller timeframes?

Thank you!

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Weird I’ll check tomorrow sorry

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Fixed not sure what happened there sorry

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Nice to see that you also consider short interest. I had missed that in the article. Seems to be now already at 17%.

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Thank you! It works now ;)

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Thanks again Brent. Will you be writing a future piece on how you reach an individual name like DOCS? There are always so many names that could fit in a particular narrative, it would be great to hear about your process for identifying the best risk-reward trade in a space.

Also, would you ever look at a trade that might take longer to play out? Such as ZM to $63 (the 2020 low) from $126 today?

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Hi Pete... Yes coming up with names can be tricky for sure... Honestly most of my process there revolves around two things 1) reading a lot and just finding ideas / inspiration that way 2) filtering for a theme. So in this case I filtered for price-to-sales then started drilling into each one, one at a time 'til there was a story that made sense to me as a short.

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