Education of A Speculator

It's been a while since I've looked at the short side of the market but It's good to review your setups so that we are ready when the time comes.
A lion stalks the weak, and when the moment arises it pounces.  Lions do not go after the strong, they find the frail and go for the kill....

TASR was one of those stocks that made millionaires out of the traders who know how to hold and how to sell.  Most people did not.  TASR made two distinct runs.
The first was its IPO run:
ripped out of the IPO new high,  Took a revisit and then was off to the races.  It was a very jumpy stock and would be hard to ride, but for those who did....

One of the most common complaints I hear from traders is that "I can't hold my winners long enough."  I've been there. Here's an amazing 7 point gain that doesn't look so amazing in retrospect:
It's taken me a long time to slay my demon that made me sell stocks for small profits.  Let's face it, selling makes us feel good, then move on to the next and repeat.   The problem is these small gains don't do a whole lot for us.  In any given year...

Today could be  pretty pivotal day so I wanted to write down some thought to make sense of it all.
I started the day very biased to the long side and had big gains in VRX, AA, TEAM, WTW, and smaller gains in MZOR and TWTR.
My initial trading plan for today was to sell TEAM -- due to earnings and buy one of the best looking breakouts I saw from Friday-- PRGS....