down

I'm down  like 20 bucks...I didn't make a trade today.  Those two bad days wiped out my mojo.
                               But I did make a video.

Nice sell off at the end....wish I was daytrading!!!!!!!!!!

Robot:  3 winners, 0 losers,  plus 117.22
I pulled him out early twice, once he was showing a profit.

Big red

     So I'm done trading the futures.  I am too stupid.  Yea, that about sums it up.
     I have 4 separate accounts....3 of them will end the year positive.  And this account is just screwing things up.  My SEC suspension should be lifted by now, allowing me to trade stocks again...I should no longer be classified as a pattern day trader (my 90 days is up).  Since all my other accounts trade stocks on a swing basis (because of the stupid day trading rule)....this account will now also be swing trading stocks.
     I don't have a clue how to make my daily goal with my small account sizes.  And with the diversifying, it will be tough.
     I'M LOOKING AT THAT 5 MINUTE YM CHART NOW SAYING,  HOW COULD YOU OF NOT MADE MONEY TODAY?  CRAP, I'M AN IDIOT.

Oh yea... out CENX for 70 cents, out TSO for 50 or 60 cents, out GS for 1.79......all I  have right now is NETC, OC, ETFC

Robot:  4 winners, 0 losers,  plus 162.96
See, didn't I tell you it was an easy day for making a profit?

red

I'm down 150.   The winning streak has ended.  Woe is me.  Oh wait.....I have my thanks you fricking market maker.  Bring on the spike down, take out my stop, and reverse picture.  Yep, I'm just paranoid.          (man o man, do I take blurry pictures)


Robot:  4 winners, 1 loser, plus 93.70

green

eh, just barely.

Who do I talk to about this, seriously!!!  Get my stop part 2---buy it at 10464 and watch it drop--take my money and reverse-----DEJA VU  Was my stop too tight?  Most likely--but I had profits to keep.  I believe if my stop was lower, then the market maker would have taken it lower to get to my stop.  Bitch, bitch, bitch...

The first YM trade was almost a mistake, and would have cost me.  Following that trend would have got me in at the highs.  I had my finger on the button, it was so close.  I did two short trades, and the messed up long listed above.

Took a short on CENX--for no other reason but following the guy from the hedge fund.  That's me day.

Robot:  2 winners, 3 losers, minus 126.30
Should have helped him out, I guess.  The market was moving so slow, I could have thrown in some protect the profits for him.

Other stuff:  Ecoli in the beef in my state.  So, ya, I was poisoned.  Lucky me.  And now I'm off to load stuff on the computers at work.  Unlucky me.  (wow, did I just lose both ways....damn.

green

                               
                           A CHRISTMAS WISH

Took one YM trade today.  The Gorilla has so many picks he has over 2 screens of space.  (I moved around my charts today).  Every day this week is a winner, I think it's some kind of record.   Don't know for sure, and I'm too lazy to look back and see...I guess what I was trying to say was.....
EVERY DAY THIS WEEK WAS A WINNER.

Robot: 1 loser, minus 69.26
ya, he made one trade and blew it...sigh

Other stuff:  I'm out to shovel the walk...it seems like everyone was wishing for a white Christmas because it snowed almost everywhere.  After warming up with the Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes, it will be wrapping presents time.  Remember that fantasy list?  No one on that list got a present from me.  That's kinda depressing.  I deleted the list, but I didn't delete them.
Guess their key board has a bigger delete button, or maybe they were doing their hair, out of the country, or the "my phone hasn't been working" etc., etc. 

I'm Green

I know we've all been there.  Stock is going up, and we stick in a  stop to protect our profits.  Then, out of no where the stock turns and goes down to your stop (and I do mean MY STOP, to the penny).  Then the sucker turns on a dime and screams back up.  And just to make sure you don't forget.... it goes to highs!!
You gotta just love this game!!!!!!!

Ummm 4 YM trades today.  3 winners, 1 loser.

I have a small account that only needed 6 dollars to end the year positive.  I bought some GS, but the sucker went down.  Now that account needs GS up around 167.30 to make that account green.
OC-------this thing---------every time (twice now) I'm up 50 cents and I don't grab my profits and it drops like a rock.
That greed stuff always seems to get in my way of taking money off the table.  I day dream about untold wealth every time I buy, short, or just whenever a stock goes my way....ya, even when it goes the wrong way.

Robot:  8 winners, 1 loser, plus 211.66

Other stuff:  Meeting (again), still have presents to buy, have to wrap everything.  When is the truck going to get here with the Christmas presents????

green

Green today.  Only had one YM trade, don't think it was the best entry, should have picked it up on the 200 day EMA but I was scarred, and picked it up later.  I need to trade more-I  just want to keep my profits.

Robot:  6 winners, 3 losers, plus 86.66

Other stuff:  need to get provisions...stores will be closed over Christmas...where's my list?  meeting, two more presents, get food...write blog....ha, oh wait...duh

I'm Green

                     ALMOST CHRISTMAS!!!!
Got 11 points off trend following the Ym this morning.  It kept me happy most of the day.  From then on I sat back and yelled out trades, too afraid to  lose my profits.  They could have been right.  Uh huh, whatever.
OC  I looked at that twice this morning and thought all was well cause it was up.  But I should have grabbed that early morning profit, cause all was not well and in 10 minutes it was dropping like a rock.  Dang I hate it when a profit slips away!
TSO, IDXX, ETFC, NETC  all stayed green for me today, (whoops not EFTC)  with NETC on the short list for being booted( it's down almost a buck, I have tight stops and sometimes it costs me).

Robot:  6 winners, 4 losers, minus 67.60
I messed with his first two trades and forced him to take small winners before he ever would have.  And I messed with his last trade.  He could have taken the YM for 10 points on that trade, but I upped his profit level and he fell short of this new higher level.  Which made that trade a loser.  In the morning I thought I had time to override his trades and get him more, but smaller winners.  Then I had my own trade on and forgot about him till the last trade.

Other stuff:  It's almost Christmas, and I only have a couple of presents to go....and some wrapping....okay, all the wrapping.  I was thinking I'd plug in the tree my sister got me and make a video for Christmas.  And if any one knew me, they would know why I've never brought in another Christmas tree to my house.  Did you ever have a broken heart that really never healed?
Other stuff huh? YEE HAW

red give it all back Friday picture

I'm pretty much stupid.  Got stuck in that give it all back on Friday thing.  What a wasted day.
The longs are green, exits are orange, shorts are white
Robot: 4 winners, 11 losers, minus 488.90
ya, but I'm stupider!!

I'm Green

green, oh yea!!

After the market settled down--it really started to look like the Robots kicked in and just started buying on moving averages.
There is a half hour to go before close, but I'm thinking I'm not gonna put in another trade today.
I had 3 winning YM trades and 1 losing one today.  I hate when they come to my stop, take me out and reverse.  This time it went a point or two below my stop, so I guess they were picking on some one else.  They must have seen my 3 day winning streak and decided not to fuck with my mojo any more.  One can only hope!
I added OC to my holdings today.

Robot: 12 winners, 4 losers minus 23.16
He was doing terrible on his new brain, so I put him back to his old brain.  I have 4 new brains in the works for him.
He was way down and I just started using him just to follow the trades I was making.  He makes a ca-ching sound every time the trade goes the right way.  I'm thinking maybe I'll start using him to manage my trades.  He can always grab a profit faster, and I usually put in 5 point trails when I'm making money, where he would just say go here and the trade is over.  I just always miss those 5 points and am not sure they work better than just taking  the money. 

im green

green again!!!!party, party, party, green m&m's
got out of MYLR, BRS, and the Q's (boo, that one was a loss on my short from a while ago)
  Both my YM trades were winners

Robot:  20 winners, 8 losers, plus 72 cents
with the new brains it takes a while to work on the stops and profit levels.  Today half day at 5 and 10, half day at 3 and 10 , tomorrow 3 and 15

Other stuff:  Payroll time again, fix a clogged drain, and need to go Christmas shopping.....the pressure!!!!

green

yep, i'm green!

( Always get a camera with that picture stabilization thing, the cameras weigh nothing and just hitting the button causes a shake.)

 So I had one YM trade today, thankfully it was a winner!  It came so close to stopping me out, not once but twice. I went short the YM @ 10402.  Then the Rockstar says he is going long the ES....sigh....and I resigned myself to losing this trade.  The guy is blessed!         
As I watch the market going up instead of down--I just sat  there saying "come on Rockstar take your profit so the market can go down".   And now it's one point from stopping me out with a loss.        The thing was hitting that line all day and then going down--when I tried it this time--it's gotta start running up--sheesh!  After a second try at taking my money, the YM gave up the ghost and started dropping hard.  I slammed in a trailing stop and got out at the first bounce.     
Today I got out of GR, OSIP, TCK all of which I bought yesterday on following their early strong up trend in the morning.  The prices were higher at close yesterday, but, but, but, the Fricking SEC bans pattern day traders when they don't have 25 K.  What a stupid rule--oh say if you take those profits today...you won't be able to trade again for 90  days!!!  Can you imagine a stock you owned crashing and it could not be sold because it would cause you to be a pattern day trader?
SEC YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Always have to gripe about those clowns....I'd like to thank the government for costing me about a dollar a share in profits.....thanks Uncle Sam for your STUPID RULES.

Robot: 12 winners, 5 losers plus 22.58
After putting in his new brains....I think the best part was that he never got into really bad numbers.  But on this plan, Robot keeps buying when things are crashing, and keeps shorting when things are running up.  But, the new brains  does allow Robot to run with a much tighter stop loss...currently just 10 points...in the past his stop loss was 30 points.

Other stuff:  Didn't I type enough already?  Let's  see..Christmas is coming...I messed with my workouts partners girlfriend to get her to tell him how she likes the new muscles...the snow from the deep freeze is almost gone...only 9 days left to buy presents...whoa...I got stuff to do!

red

all together, I'm down about 40 dollars today.  I seem to be much better at picking a trending stock than I am at getting the YM in a trend.
Today I added
TCK @ 35.82
GR @ 63.09
OSIP @ 34.98
BRS @ 36.35
I put on a trade to get the YM at the first reversal at 9:50, but that cost me and I never recovered.  I could have, but I have a problem with grabbing a profit in the YM, it moves so much that not taking a few points will cost you a bunch of points.
Tomorrow's plan is using the 2 hour 1 minute chart on the YM.    Slow stoch below 20 buy, above 80 sell.  It seemed to work great today, but I'll know better once I hook it up to the  Robot.  He has  a good day and I change his brain.

Robot:  6 winners, 1 loser, plus 145.18
Going with the plan above, his profit target will be 6 points,  with a stop loss of 10 points.  But I'm willing to run the whole day on this plan.

Other Stuff:  ya, I have nothing

red

red - hate that.  The morning started off great.  I had 3 winning YM trades in a row.  After lunch I fell back into being stupid, I had a bad trade, which caused me to reverse my position just out of spite, and lose twice.  The next trade I waited until the chart was better and got back all my losses, but, but, but, I didn't take the profit, I got greedy.

Meet the pig!!!!!
  And my profit disappeared.  I hate learning lessons that cost money.
For the day I ended  down about 20 dollars.  Red days just suck--no matter it's only 20 dollars--red days suck!!  Trying to remember my today's lesson.  So I can trade better on Monday.
HAHA  IB puts up this note that says--hey you can't hold this overnight, you don't have enough money, you have less than 10 minutes to sell this position.

Robot:  5 winners, 3 losers, minus 104.08
during the morning, we were about neck and neck with our profits, I started remembering when I would have contests with him to see who could have the most profits.  Yeah, back in the day....

Other stuff:  lost another quarter inch off the kegger.  And I can finally finish my sit-ups (all I need to do is start 4 minutes before everyone else).

I'm Green

Put on 3 YM trades today.  I took about 4 points per trade.  I'm really stuck in a protect the profits mode, since my lesson from Monday was don't let a profit turn into a loss.  It means really small gains, but it is a whole lot better for my smile to have a profitable day.  And for every trade to be right.  It is tough when one bad trade could cost all your profits for the day.
SY  out for 70 cents.  I thought I was smart when it started going lower, but it just rebounded later in the day. 

Robot:  6 winners, 5 losers, minus 326.86
He could be going the way of my fantasy calls section (non existent).  But I do use all of his alerts to see if I would go in with him on a trade.  I guess it is good practice.

Other stuff:  A half inch is gone from the kegger.  Instead of looking at a book for the proper food to eat, I'm here writing about it.  Water or Pepsi, this is a really hard choice. 

Some snow actually tried to melt today.  But it is just a flat ice cube instead of a tall ice cube.

red

Down about 10 or 15 dollars.  Did a day trade in my stock account today, I had  83 cents  on the trade and  no way was I  gonna let it disappear.  And yes I have a "post it" counting the trades for me so I don't go into big bad SEC land for too many day trades and not enough money. 
Speaking of having to post my day trade on a "post it"
I'm not listing this broker on my links (on the side over there-to the right) because---you have to put in your own costs, your own share numbers--etc, etc,  it really is ridiculous.  They charge you 4.95 a trade and want you to do all the calculating.  They tell you what you did today, but don't carry a running total on your P&L unless you start putting in you own numbers.

AND NOW FOR THE GOOD BROKERS:
Wells Fargo-either owe them enough money or have enough in your accounts and they will give you 100 free trades a year.  I opened a stock account and an IRA with them and they gave me 200 free trades a year.  Totally unexpected--Good Job Guys
INTERACTIVE BROKERS:  Mostly 1 dollar a trade (it goes up for larger share sizes) for me I would have to trade thousand share lots just to pay what other brokers are charging.  But below  a certain number of shares--it is a dollar a trade.  They are lightening fast--truly my shares are bought and sold by the time my finger comes off the mouse.

I was trying to stall while my new video uploaded, it is called how to get some of the Gorilla's picks for free.  It is worth a look-you won't get in trouble--they list them for you on their website.  You won't even have to fill out anything or even tell them you stopped by.

Robot:  10 winners, 4 losers, minus 24.64
Today he got caught in the oil numbers--he went long right before they were released and it cost him 130 dollars to have that spike down and reversal within 2 minutes.  He is just lucky that he did not also put on a short during the reversal.

Other stuff: let's see-have I mentioned how fricking cold it is here in Alaska?, wait, I don't live in Alaska.  It is colder here anyway. 
Turning the six pack into a kegger? I'm not sure I can remove candy from my meal list during Christmas.  Nor am I sure I can eat healthy foods.  But I am still doing the workouts.

green

Only had the courage to try one YM trade today.  The whole day I kept thinking if I wait for the perfect trade, what happens if it goes against you?  While I pondered the fact that if I knew which way the futures were heading-then I would be rich.  My trade took me till half hour before close and a little encouragement from the Rockstar who had already taken and sold his ES trade with a profit.  Any ways my 3 point trail carried me all the way to a 12 point gain.  Yesterday, my YM trade losses were the result of me not taking a profit, 20 bucks on one, 60 on another, and the third, I have no idea.

Robot:  changed him to a profit of 5,  I also messed with him  big time and just kept forcing him to buy another contract every time the trade went wrong.  For this reason he has no real numbers today.

Other stuff:  minus 4 degrees?  A fricking high of 11?  What, did God confuse this place with Alaska?  (how's the weather)

fricking RED

3 YM trades 3 losers, which makes me a loser!!!!!!!!!
down 360, yikes, makes me not even want to trade.  But, I know I gotta.  Cause...anyways, with this fricking loss, I'm gonna need to make my daily goal every day left to trade in this year to turn out green for the year.  With limited funds, ah..but I can lose a lot.  It's just a terrible day


Robot:  3 winners, 5 losers, minus 459.08

Other Stuff:  Man, it's cold outside!  How's the weather?  How cold  3....that's a minus 16 for the Celsius people.  Did I really misspell a word cause of no capital letter?, come on now!

green

So Depressing...Fridays...no trading....sob...sob...sob...where is my crying pig?

There.   Still holding, no changes today.  Thought I would trade today, but payroll got in the way.  It's funny, Thursday I thought I had lots of time, on Friday, didn't even finish the charts and stuff for payroll.  I know what's this got to do with trading...sigh....I could not trade...I was doing payroll...shoot...keep up!!!

Robot:  3 winners, 6 fricking losers, minus 553.34
Glad he doesn't use my money (oh crap, if I would have traded, he would have been using my  money today).

Other Stuff:  I have a new goal------DON'T LAUGH-----doing a pull-up.  huh? so you laughed, obviously you don't have a kegger tied to you.  Ya, go on laugh some more...It's Friday, have a good time.

red

down like 20 or 30 bucks today.  How about that downturn at the end of the day.  Ya ,  how about that.
no trades-money has got to settle

Robot:  5 winners, 1 loser, plus 144.44 at lunch
            6 winners, 2 losers, plus 90.92 for day

Other stuff: super smart girl seeks new boyfriend

green

stops in:
VSAT@30.75
SNP@85.40
THAT WAS QUICK
out VSAT
out SNP

Robot:  2 winners, 3 losers, minus 241.30
sucky sucky sucky (apparently that is not how you spell sucky)

Other Stuff:  Now that I don't have a remodel to worry about I've gone back to the turn the keg into a six pack plan.

im green

out V 83.05
out SJR 19.61
placed day stop VRSK at 27.40--changed to 27.75--they came and got me, only took them 4 minutes out 27.72
added NETC @ 14.59

Robot:  8 winners, 2 losers, plus 92.40

green

green today
I wonder if I should take 4 or 5 dollars, it's always a terrible feeling to watch the green slip away.  But 4 dollars?  Hey Elvis is on.  Every day I think about dumping C and IDXX.  Put a stop on IDXX at 48.80
Friday new funds arrive and I will be able to day trade the futures again, let the madness begin!!!!!

Robot:  4 winners, 4 losers, minus 289.08
A couple of times I thought about interfering with his trades, but I let him work on his own.

Other stuff:  had to slap on some prayers for a family member who is too young to be making any kind of decisions on his own.

down

Down like 60 dollars.  I had a 15 dollar profit on the q's at the open, which I did not take, I really need to start taking these small amounts and let them add up to something.
When the goat was saying buy this dip, I was saying I spent all my money Wednesday.  But being scattered brained as I am, I had forgotten about my IRA.
Today I added
VRSK@27.09
SNP@84.81
SJR@19.31
VSAT@30.24
I kinda got them close to today's highs. eh, it's what I do.  Today's buys pretty much puts me at all in.

Robot:  3 winners, 3 losers, minus 225.56
He sucked today.

Other stuff:  Maybe just a few pieces of covering some "ugly spots" trim work and the remodel is done, thanks to all that work put in yesterday, and the huge roll of duct tape that is just a shadow of it's former self.  Other people use screws and stuff to put things up--I use duct tape--judge me.

Green

a little green today
Added to swing trades
V, TSO

Robot:  at noon 3 winners, 1 loser, plus 47.96
            the day 4 winners, 1 loser, plus 63.70   

down 30

Took my own advice and shorted the q's  for a swing trade (you know until I get 20 bucks)

Robot:  4 winners, 2 losers,plus 46.66

down today

I'm pretty much buying on emotions and it is screwing me over.  So I get to start a new effort to only play the pivots, short the highs, buy the lows, and pay attention to Robot's stoch buy and sell triggers.  Wow, the Robot was doing terrible and now I'm saying let it run live and make you some money.  The world has turned upside down.
But I really have to stop chasing things--but that's cool, cause that 170 down today means I no longer have enough capital to trade the YM any more.  I'm screwed.  And my SEC suspension from being a pattern day trader still has about 30 or 40 days before they lift my restrictions.
1.50 trailing stop in on HDB
out HDB

Robot:   noon 3 winners, 1 loser plus 27.96
             day   5 winners, 1 loser plus 139.44
This day it did not get a bunch of losing trades after lunch.

Other Stuff:  How did other stuff turn into other job?  Two pieces of trim, two ends of the walls and some shiny silver stuff, and paint--and that's it.  Maybe 5 hours of work.

Green

It's an up day!  HDB is working well and will probably have a stop loss on it on Monday.  The other three holdings just suck (they are investments, hahahahahaha)
My one day trade of the YM worked good.  Don't know if I was too scarred to trade it again-I just did not want to see my profit slip away today-I felt bad after losing money yesterday.
 If I lost 90 dollars today I would not even be able to trade the YM futures without adding money to my account. So it was protect the profits day for me.

My opinion of where the markets are going ( with all respects to Mr. Cavendish).

Robot:      5 winners, 1 loser, plus 154.44 at noon
day total  8 winners, 2 losers, plus 192.40
Still think he won't be allowed to trade past noon with real money. 

Other Stuff:  No access without prior notification.  We just don't open the door and say come on in.  We run 24 hour audio and video surveillance, and 24 hour alarm systems.  So you can walk up to the door and say you are supposed to be inside the building.  Landlord does not know you, I don't know you, and you can't give me your bosses phone number?  Another good reason for me not to carry a gun.

Right--I sound totally insane up there--but, as long as you all think I'm nuts, watch something I like to call idiots
which is just another good reason for me not to carry a gun.

red

Down 300.  I suck at this YM trading.  I'm just a fool buying high and selling low.  I remember when I had days in a row of beating my daily goal.  And some doubles.  I need to get out of my rut.
Added HDB today.

Robot:  5 winners, 1 loser, plus 298.88  at noon
             6 winners, 2 losers, plus 161.84 at close
pretty much is staying with the don't trade after noon thing.

Other Stuff:  I'm just on a small break from payroll and remembered I had not posted my results today

Fantasy Calls:  Kina baby--two words in a text--I see why they get the name fantasy

green today

out MON
Stop put on for TCK @ 34.50
out TCK
Nice break on the etrade takeover chatter
both MON and TCK could have held on for more--but I always hate it when a profit disappears--so I try to lock in profits as soon I get a 20 dollar bill

Robot 3 winners, 2 losers, minus 242.60
After lunch he had his two losers.  I think I will actually shut him off after lunch from now on, instead of just letting him rum the whole day, tomorrow I might let him make a trade for me.

Other Stuff:  Showed up late today, that's just wrong!  Even got done an hour earlier this morning,  but get home at 1 am and get started at 6:30 am is kinda tuff.  But I'm green today, so who cares.  Payroll time, next construction day maybe Saturday.

Fantasy Calls:  Where is my birthday girl?

red

Down 75 today.

30 TCK @ 33.54
1 ym 10378 out 10348
two more YM winning trades, but not enough to make up the loss of the first YM trade
MON trailing stop @.60

Robot:  5 winners, 4 losers, minus 96.68
after lunch he went on a 3 in a row losing streak

Other stuff:  again...I owe, I owe, so off to work I go......working the overnight shift tonight--putting up mosaic tile boards in front of the counter

i'm green

A poorly planned short on the YM late in the day cost me 100 dollars and left me with 10 dollars in the plus column.  Yeah the green!!!

Why did you do it Bob?  Now I'm really starting to miss that one hundred dollars

Robot:  Talk about one dumb mo-fo.  He could not trade from the ticks, screwed up on  appl, screwed up on GS, screwed up on the YM.  I ain't got time to fix him.

Other stuff:  What other stuff?
Fantasy Calls:  Is it Wednesday yet?

never mind his brains WHO DUMPED CCJ?

Some idiot started dumping CCJ after it hit 30.40--I sold out at 30.02 for 78 cents.
Robot new brains--never mind--he be stupid for another day or week oh yeah!

new brains for Robot

While reading "mastering the trade" I came upon this bit of info.....short the market when the ticks hit one thousand and buy the market when the ticks hit minus one thousand...they had a 30 or so time in trade limit, which I did not add as of now.
So Robot is back to trading the YM and back to keeping his totals.  I need to trade the YM or ES or corn(something in the futures) to be day trading.
And I gotta day trade, I just gotta.
That is all.

Oh wait--the overnight shift was great, covered in sawdust for 5 hours.  Two more trim pieces and the mosaic tile coverings in the front and side, paint the outside from the sign logo change that left the old building color.  When I started writing this I thought I was almost done with the remodel, now that I've wrote it out it seems like a lot of stuff left to do. 

green today

It's a winning day!  For some reason I did not take on any day trades today.  I spent some time trying to get MB to show the numbers I need to see on my positions.  I still have not finished, looks like I should have spent more time playing with the paper account before I made real trades with this broker.  But I can still make stupid mistakes with the broker I've had for years. 
Those times when you sell your shares and the program defaulted to more shares than you own and now your are short,  then long, then confused, then you own twice as many shares, then you stop panicking and realize what is going on and being just lucky enough to get out with a profit.  oh yah fun times.
It's always the same-paper accounts just wont give you the real life situations.
Today I added MON to my holdings @74.30.  Looks like hindsight is telling me it was a bad choice. 
Sad News---------it is Friday-no trading till Monday

Robot:  10 winners, 3 losers, minus 55
If I have the time this weekend I will revamp his brain again.

Other stuff:  I think since the overnight construction shift I've just spent my time slumming and sleeping.  Actually I only need to put more anchors in the menu boards, check that the wiring didn't get pinched in the fight to get the panels "level", and put on some mosaic boards for 20 or 30 feet (I'm sure it will turn out harder than it sounds).  I think I'll move some stuff into the huge stuff collector I have going in the basement.  It just so happens extra room has been acquired in the stuff collecting area. 

down 60

For my day trading, I went long and short the YM.  Lost on the long and made money on the short for a total of down 30 dollars.  Glad I took the second trade to make up for some of the losses.

Robot: 7 winners, 2 losers, minus 37
Might change his stop loss, if I remember. 

Other Stuff:  Even if you think you put something up level if you are only 2 inches away from the ceiling you should just follow the ceiling and not what you thought was level.  This is what I learned at 1 am last night while redoing the menuboards.  I neither accept or deny I did something wrong, I still say the ceiling is not level--that's my story and I'm sticking with it.
Somebody needs to feed me-cause in the last 24 hours all I've eaten is two pieces of cheese.  If only one of the girls from the fantasy list would care.  Dinner? I'm buying.

fantasy calls: care,care,care,care,care

50 CCJ

50  CCJ at 29.24---it just kept saying buy me, buy me,  I know the market is going down.

RED

I took a long on the YM about 10:30 at 10260.  And it took me out at minus 150.  I wanted my first trade to be a winner, but it was a loser.  Depressing to say the least.  I could have told everyone to go long after I got taken out!  Sucker is up now, gee.

Robot:  5 winners, 7 losers, minus 253
Think the change on the break even mode was a bad choice.

Other Stuff:  I'm here early cause I'll be working the midnight shift on the remodel.  So it's nap time......zzzzzzzz

red

Down 12 dollars.  Today I added IDXX to my holdings.  How about that, the SEC forbids me to trade stocks for 90 days, and if I open another account, I can trade stocks again.  Once again, the pattern day trader rule is the stupidest, worst, dumbest thing.  Pattern day trader needed the money for his business and fell below 25 k lets stop him from trading-it's the wise thing to do.  Being governed by people who don't have a clue.  And actually I am now holding 4 different accounts.

I am hoping to start trading the YM and the e-mini futures tomorrow.  And once again, the 90 day restriction on me trying to make a living has no bearing on the rules, just like a 2nd or 3rd or 4th account.  So much money was taken out of my day trading account for the store remodel it will take over a year to bring my account back to what is was.  I sure hope I can just trade my way to success, I wanna be a daytrader!  

Robot: 4 winners, 5 losers, minus 67.
5 losers and only down 67 dollars, this sure beats the huge losses Robot was doing a while ago.  His stop was changed to .25, and his break even mode was changed to after his second target is reached.  Mostly, when I have time, I look at how Robots trade is going and think what can I do to make him do better.  It does not mean the changes will work better or worse, but with the print out Robot provides I can have trades with live prices and situations, so I can see if my changes are working better.

Other Stuff:  Easy rest week on the work outs,  that turned out to not be true.  I confused 1 easy day for an easy week.  Another half inch has disappeared (I don't know maybe it went to some pregnant girl-what's up Jessie?)
Have not worked on the remodel since Sunday, but tomorrow night I will be working the midnight shift while the store is closed.  This means I can make a huge mess with sanding wood and the dry wall anchors for the menu boards.

Fantasy calls:  Cute huh?  If I mentioned it was her birthday next week, she has not talked to me since July (when she asked me to go out drinking with her-but it was girl talk, guys would know what that means) and that I have been thinking about that perfect birthday text for months now, would any one really even care?  Fantasy calls---get it?   

im green

green and it's the right day.
Don't know what to say, nice bounces off the 50 ema's, I did not expect this.  But what do I know.  Still have my 2 core holdings.  Were it not for the gap up, I would have added some positions today.

Robot: 1 winner, 0 losers, profit 75.00
He had 1 trade, his last 100 shares lasted for almost 5 hours before the trailing stop triggered.

Other Stuff:  Just how much could a menu board weigh?  A frieking lot.  As tonight after the meeting I will probably be attempting to hold 3 more of them above my head with one hand while tightening anchor bolts with my other hand.  I got skills, girls!

What was the next listing---Oh wait, I think the girl at Taco Bell flirted with me, or she wanted to date my car, I'm not quite sure.  But I don't think my car could actually hear her sexy voice, she was trying for deep sultry, so maybe she was flirting with me.

green and friday for real this time

I'm a green, yeah.  Anybody grab some GE from that post this morning?  Just kidding (read the disclaimer).

Robot:  5 winners, 3 losers, plus 147.
For a first day, I kinda like that his max loss would be $60 on a trade with commissions.  After the first trade I changed his T2 to .15.  It's only a 3 cent difference, but it just seemed like it took to long to hit 18 cents.

Other Stuff:  Corporations are known as legal entities and therefore legally can have one contact person for an entire corporation--how ever franchisees are not. Get your stuff together.
Found my missing check number and changed everything so everything is copa   ( at the cabana)
Time to finish payroll and then it's a weekend of construction work for the remodel of the store.
WOW, OTHER STUFF AND IT'S JUST ABOUT SOME WORK, WORK, WORK, THIS IS CRAP!!
I would much rather break my own rules and talk about stocks in Other Stuff.  But when a large franchise won't supply needed and required information because their system only has room for one primary contact, it's just ridiculous.

green and it's yesterday, again

I keep falling behind.  GE pre market is ripping.  Anyways, hopefully when the remodel is done I will back on time with things.  Green for Thursday with my 2 holdings, hopefully everyone was long and everyone was up!  (after all it's a beaver clever world)

Robot: 34 winners, 2 losers, up 65.00
not that I did anything to him--but after going through some saved Robot days--I'm switching him over to trading the SPY.
.22 stop, .08 T1, .18 T2, 4.00 T3, 3 step, be mode-never,trail mode always at .02
And if you understand those, you actually are running Bracket Trader off an IB platform.

Other stuff:  Check numbers are wrong  aaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggg  call it redo payroll why don't ya!  Sucks!  Back to a easy rest week on the turn the kegger into a six-pack,  so it was yoga.  I have a busted tire on my chair, again,(I blame it on the keg).  I want to fix it so my chair doesn't tip over with me in it--but I need it to tip over for a new video I'm  planning on how to day trade--hey, I'm trying to be creative this time.  And GE is up .60 now(mixing it up again--TRADING IS GREAT-I LOVE IT!) Now all I can think of is trading again.    And GE now up .74  gotta go make some money.

Fantasy calls: What a deletable category.

Wednesday for real

Look at that, I finally caught up to the right day.  Don't expect that to  last too long. 
Ahhhhh the days are back when you can hold onto something for more than an hour and you can make money.  I kinda like a wildly swinging market better,  it fits into my style of dumbass trading much better.  Trading should start up for real sometime next week, maybe, I need to finish the remodel.

Robot: Out rusting in the  snow

Other stuff:  A five minute repair turned into 2 hours.  My extra large hands could not fit into the tight space--okay, okay, I'm just merging something else with my stuff--but I wasn't going to write that on the other place.
It was, I guess that I've been working out so much that I snapped some stupid piece of plastic like it was nothing.  My superhuman strength cost me two hours of repair work.
I've gone off into some kind of private joke writing tangent.
I'm out of here.

Fantasy calls: lallalalalalalalalalllalalallalaaalalalalalal
la

as in Tuesday

This remodel is really interfering with my trading.  Seriously.  Oh, my MB account is finally available to trade.  So, are we bouncing off the 50 and 200 day EMA's or will the markets break down from here.  Decisions, decisions, and it's real money time again.  What to do, what to do.


Robot:  Turned his ass off right after he pulled two bad trades in a row.  He will have to be rebuilt.

Other stuff:  You gotta see it to believe it.  The truck driver says where ya want this 500 pound crate.  Up against the door would be great, David replies.  I return and the door is stuck open with an 8 foot tall 500 pound crate leaning up against the door.  Sometimes you get what you ask for.
I made sure to keep my toes out of the way when I dropped this crate back down to level with the ground.
For my bad moves--I installed a handicap table with the bolts being too short, when I put the table top on the frame, it just pulled away from the wall and pulled the brand new wall paper with it.  But 'cept for the bubble the table top hides all of my mess up.  hahahah.

Fantasy Calls: eh, nothing to report, how normal for you.  A girl did stop by to use my super computer for her homework, but seeing as though she is not on the list, I fell asleep.  The excitement never ends!

Time and deliveries

I can't believe the time change messed with me.  I was ready at what I thought was the market open, and I could not figure out why my quotes were not working.  I assumed it was because IB said I would have to subscribe to a new service for my quotes.  So I subscribed, but no quotes.  I went to my backup broker for quotes and his quotes don't work either.  I am totally stumped.  I resubscribe to the quote service, I make sure both computers are on different internet service providers and running independently.
AHHHHHHH
When the market finally opens an hour later I realized I was caught in the time warp.  I feel  really, really, stupid.
No balance in MB yet, maybe Tuesday.  Had to withdraw another chunk of money for the remodel, hopefully only 1 more withdraw to go and the remodel should be paid for.

Other Stuff:  I think George Washington waived to me at an intersection on Halloween.  Then later in the day, waiting for a light to change, I watched Pac Man chase the Ghost (or whatever) across 6 lanes of traffic.  It was strange and funny at the same time.  No stock totals for today, C and ETFC were most likely down, and I'm sure Robot is still playing stupid--but I was at the remodel making tables, scrubbing dry wall mess and wall paper glue off the floors.  That cinderfella thing never seems to bring a princess for me.  How come it is so hard for some to get the hint?

Pretend it's Friday, I'm red

down 40.  MB trading gave me no account balance today, probably Monday I can start trading stocks again.  No day trading here.  This is why I opened the account to be able  to trade stocks-since the SEC shut down my stock trading ability with their stupid rules.  So my frozen IB account will be trading futures soon (depending on how much more money I have to give for the remodel), and the MB account will be swing trading stocks.  Hopefully in 11 months all the money drained from my trading account will be paid back.

Robot:  Buried in the snow, rusting his shiny butt.
19 winners, 6 losers, minus 397.00
back to trading APPL cause I could not take the losing trades anymore.

Other Stuff:  Avril can play the drums.  Have a payroll that I need to be doing now.  Tomorrow I get to wait 4 hours for a delivery at the store remodel.  And Friday they gave my checks and w-2 forms to my neighbors driveway.  And I'm calling everyone after hours asking how fast can you get my replacement checks sent out- so I can have payroll done on time.  Really thankful my neighbor came by and told me she had all my packages.  UPS said they left them on the porch, I drove through the neighborhood looking at everyone's porch for my packages.  UPS had dropped them in her driveway hidden behind a truck.

green

It has been a long time since I've been this color.  Fricking TTEC takes me out and goes up 2 dollars after stealing my shares.  Bitch, bitch, bitch, gripe, gripe, gripe.

Robot: 21 winners, 7 losers, minus 933.76
I think he is back to the drawing board,  will have to reteach him everything starting from tying his toes, er shoes, er laces to blowing his nose....OR I'LL JUST STICK HIS BUTT OUT IN THE SNOW OVERNIGHT..THAT ALWAYS SEEMS TO WAKE HIS FREELOADING ASS UP TO REALITY.

Other stuff:  Missed my sit up goal by 55 today, it is always fun to suck air for 5 minutes before you can even roll over.  It has snowed a bunch, I tried to build a tunnel to the front door--but it will have to snow a bunch more to get the other side of the tunnel built.
Fantasy calls:  Got a huge crush on you

it's yesterday, i'm late and i'm down, again

minus 71.10  Who would have thought 3 little holdings could have moved so much.  This morning (as in tomorrow) I was stopped out of TTEC.  Now all I have is 100 C and 200 ETFC.
MB trading has my money and told me if I jump through a hoop I could start trading right away.  Why do people confuse me with a trained Seal or Dolphin?  Anyways with the market tanking at present, I just decided to wait till Friday or Monday to start trading stocks again.
Stupid TTEC has already rebounded a dollar by the time I was typing this!

Robot: make me laugh
33 winners, 10 losers, minus 781.36        been changing his stops, timing, etc.  but he is just suffering a complete breakdown.

Other Stuff:  Being on the destruction crew (construction) keeps me up late and up early to trade.  I taped my menu boards to the wall and told myself it looks good. haha  Every wall in the dining room is now striped down to torn and battered dry wall, we ended up calling a professional to refinish the walls for the wall paper.

Fantasy Calls:  A stranger from the past showed up while I was in remodeling mode.  We talked a little while, and on the way out she blows me a  kiss.  Always skeptical, I think it is because I gave her a bag of chips for free.  She isn't on the list--but she is best friends with a girl on the list.  And this time folks it wasn't just a dream--er was it?

red

minus 25 dollars today, just watching my account dwindle down.  I expect that the markets won't be able to bounce  off their trend lines.  Just a feeling,  seems like they are rolling over more than coming off a high this time.  Eh, what do I know?  Couldn't even find the magic eight ball, oh wait, I don't even own one.
Stood in awe of the Rockstar who took APOL puts before they reported--some people just have a touch.

Robot:  Think he needs to be melted for scrap.
29 winners, 9 losers, minus 585.24   changed him to 2 contracts, his stop to 15 and then again to 25.  His profit to 5 and then a 5 point trail up to 20 points

Other stuff:  It's snowing again.  Yesterday I missed my # of sit ups by 60, the time before was 80, but that 60 cost me 5 minutes of crashed on the floor sucking air.

Fantasy calls:  yep, in my mind  Barbie is just inches away from true love.

i'm red

Down 23 dollars today.

Robot:  22 winners, 5 losers, minus 240.02
Somewhere in the middle of the day I changed his stop loss from 40 to 25.

Other stuff:  Not much up there, huh?  I had to leave in the middle of the day to talk to a wallpaper dude about how a wall should look before he could put up wall paper.  Should have taken a picture to show how terrible my walls look.  It should be about 4 or 5 solid days to get my walls ready if I did the work, so we've called in a pro to give us a bid.  And if it is  a lot, I'm gonna be mud and taping and sanding till my arms are all buffed out like the hulk.

Tried to upload an 11 second video today, and it only took 6 hours,  but hey with my blurry camera work, poor sound quality, and generally a lack of any kind of direction, I'd say it was pretty easy to get this up.  On the first try too!!  Where those pictures below took two or three tries.

I salvaged some trim work from the remodel, and someday will put it up in my home.  I stacked all this wood inside my car with it overhanging out the passenger window, just far enough to spear any one walking on the sidewalk.  After unloading my used and abused bounty, my car window decides not to go up.  The next day I'm outside in the snow with my door panel ripped off, smacking the hell out of my window.  I gave up after an hour of cussing and realizing my hammer seemed to have some kind of fix it flaw.  I put the door back together and resigned my self to going to the dealership to have the window fixed, or tape up the garbage bag to the side of my car.  But after the door is back on the window starts going up--3/4 of the way, I start cheering and it stops.  I just couldn't believe it,  a few minutes later and another push on the button and it squeezes up the last part.  Another lucky day!

Fantasy calls:  another lucky day-naw i'm just kidding

Charts with a blinding flash

please don't look directly into the flash!!!      Never mind I fixed it.

red

I'm down $35.  Looking at those trend lines on the dow, s&p, and nasdaq  it all looks so easy just to follow the channel and makes tons of money.  One of these days I'm gonna do just that.
I have been spending way too much time playing with opening a new account with a broken quote tracker, ended up doing payroll during my trading hours.  I should have been playing the futures this week, I had no need to withdraw any more money this week.  Next week is another story, the construction crew will most likely start working, and depending on the delivery dates, they could be done soon.
M.B. got a deposit, but they won't tell you if you are approved for futures until after they cash your check-pretty bogus.


Robot: 18 winners, 3 losers, minus $35.
have not been paying too much attention to his antics either.

Other Stuff: wish I had something but its midnight and tomorrow i start construction work.  On the menu is remove wall paper and trim work,  get to learn something new-yee haw

F a n tasyyyyyyyyyyyyy  ehhhhhhh

green

green is good

Robot:  8 winners, 3 losers, minus 446.86
It's pretty much laughable.  He would short every dip and get caught shorting an up trending market.

Other Stuff:  iffin ya can't tell, i got writers block
Fantasy Calls:  Ya

red

yep, I'm down.  And I posted two blogs, one said i, and the other said red.  Trying to make them shorter I guess.
I finally have Quote Tracker working on my back up broker.  Let's talk about these people--I almost took them off my links on the right after a week of trying to get QT to connect.  Quote Tracker was much better when it was free.  For them I sent many files, did a  complete disaster recovery on my computer, etc, etc, etc,  my broker has locked me out 4 times from repeated log ins to see if QT would work.  5 days later I ask if my special character in my password could be causing the non connect problem.  They tell me not a chance, and then tell me it would be easy enough to change my password and see.     I CHANGE THE CHARACTER OUT OF MY PASSWORD AND QT CONNECTS, YOU WOULD THINK THAT SINCE THEY CHARGE FOR THEIR SERVICE NOW THAT THEY WOULD GET OFF THEIR BUTT AND ALREADY KNOW THAT THEIR PROGRAM COULD NOT RECOGNIZE THE CHARACTER THAT I USED.    And yes they received the same message from me today.  It's a love hate relationship ( they loved my check, and now they hate me)

Robot:  3 winners, 2 losers, minus 356.30
He was stuck in a trade for 4 hours, and finally got out at a loss, then went long on a bounce.  The bounce was just before the market tanked before the close, and so posted his second loss.

Other Stuff: 
Today really moved in slow motion.  I thought it was already Midnight at 7 p.m.  At 7 I took a 5 hour nap and woke up at 8  p.m.  It snowed for real today, and I did a little dance that I have a working furnace.  Is it just me, or is it tough to spell words?

Fantasy Calls: I'm reminded of the movie Meatballs here.

Red

I'm late, this is Tuesday (pretend okay).  Down 50 dollars, my account is just flowing with the market.

Robot: 17 winners, 0 losers, profit 392.58
Wow, a perfect day!  He started at 8:30 and stopped at a little after 1:00.  Adjust the time to where you think I live.  I wanted to stop him early at around 11:30 or 12, but I think shut him down early is mostly when he trades real money, to protect a profit.

Other Stuff:  The marathon of interview managers is over. I wonder who is gonna get the job?

I'm Green

10 or 20 dollars, I don't know.  Such an attitude for some one who watches and trades on moves for just pennies.  I know, I know, but I'm just holding 4 small swing trades.  I can't really pull off a futures trade because I can't have the settle date interfere with needing to withdraw the money for the store remodel.  But I'm Green.

Robot:  10 winners, 2 losers, minus 201.12
He got interrupted a lot while I was trying to load Quote Tracker for my back up computer.  Shut down twice, missed the take your profit while the computer was off, etc, etc.  But this was his numbers, so the loss.  And still no Quote Tracker on the back up--even after a full disaster recovery.  But IB Quote Tracker runs on the backup.

Other stuff:  Interviews for a new manager.  Had a total of 8 people apply for the one position.  Gotta disappoint 7 people.  I yelled at all of the first group for not getting up and helping out when the store was busy, told them there is no excuse for not helping a customer and they were all trained to stop what they were doing and help customers.  I"M SO MEAN!  eh whatever.

Fantasy calls:  I might be the only one fantasizing here.

i'm red

Down 34.  I have nothing to say really, spent the day playing with Quote Tracker for my new account.  QT's multiple log in attempts would lock me out of my account for too large a # of repeated attempted log ins.  Talked with QT reps all day long.  In the end(now) I did a total system restore to get things working.  I hope I'm not wasting another day loading programs for nothing!

Robot:  12 winners, 1 loser, profit 54.62
I really should go through his records and see what his max adverse trades are to give  him a lower setting than 40 for his stop loss.

Other Stuff:  two little bears came in and ate my stuff, next time I see them I'm gonna have to explain this aint Grandma's house and that they can't just help themselves to my food.  I'm really poor, and can't spare food or I wont be eating.

Fantasy Calls:  w--h--a--t-  -e--v--e--r

im red

Down 50 dollars, and with only 4 stocks.  Don't care what you say, takes talent.

Robot:  I forgot to turn him on  so  3 winners, 2 losers minus 266.30

All my little chores are just causing me to leave my passion and it really is starting to cost.  I toasted java on my backup-I went to loading java 6, it failed and reason 25099 said do this which toasted all of my java and left me with nothing and no way to download.  Did some system restores but those would not fix it.  So I transferred my java files from my main computer to the backup and  in only 2 tries I have java back.  Now I'm doing 11 windows updates to catch up to all the system restores and how far I went back.
Fingers crossed it all works on the restart.

Have mb running on my main--playing with the fake account so i can learn how to use their platform.

Java is working again--sweet

Other stuff: er that was kinda my other stuff up there.  Updated a program at work without the internet today, still don't know how, guess it came on and went off and my update slid in. 
Fantasy calls: life is just a fantasy, can you live this fantasy life?

I'm Green

Market is up big, and my 4 holdings brought in some money.  Still not trading, because of the three days needed to settle and I have to take out money for the remodel.  Today's withdraw brought me below the 10k minimum IB wants for an account.  But the loop hole is once you have an account you can be below 10 grand, this amount is only required to open an account.  So now I sit around and see if they tell me they are going to close my account.  I won't be selling any of my holdings so hopefully my account won't be closed on me.

Robot: 6 winners, 2 losers, minus 284.04
He was stuck in one trade for five hours.  Today he went short on both of his losers.  Robot doesn't really understand the trend, he is a habitual trader.
Ya, lately he sucks, and needs work on his attitude.  Just unplug him this time before you open his brain panel.  He shocks me just for the laughs.

Other stuff:  wrong code, wasn't gonna try the code on Tuesday or Wednesday because it's the end and beginning of the week.  Some worlds are different o.k.?  And you all thought earth time zones were different, wait till you...whoops never mind.  Some nice lady gave me the right code, so around midnight things should be different, at least one can hope.
I've  gone too far for most of you huh?  Just testing the limits of your imagination.  Go with the flow.

Fantasy calls:  Um, come on, I will pay the charges.  Man, I hate I'm doing my hair day.

Is there a gray?

 something like 30 cents down.  I'm still pulling out chunks of money, almost daily for the store remodel. Sent in my MB trading paperwork so I can trade stocks again with my low account balances--It would be a shame to waste that Gorilla Trade service because the S.E.C. won't let me buy stocks.  WAIT (this is gonna sound dumb) I just remembered I have a I.R.A. I can trade out of.

Robot:  9 winners, 2 losers, minus 231.86
Ya, the sucker blew it today.  And when he gets stuck in trades, he just can't make enough to cover the losses.  Usually he runs around 20 trades a day, but today only 11 trades.

Other Stuff:  New sound board for the t.v., but I'm not impressed.  October 15th is just days away, and if you are a procastinator like me  taxes are due in two days.  There is a giant fly as big as a key on my key board trying to be cute so I won't smash his head in.  Insects just keep getting smarter and smarter....ooop never mind he's dead.

Fantasy Calls:  Someday when something is posted here I think I'll get drunk, or I was drunk, or it was (nah I just can't write that one, but man o man, it was funny).

couldn't find the spell check, so sound it out!!!

I'm Green

up 20$.  It is better than the dreadful I'm down.  I did no trading today.  I hold positions in C, EFTC, LPL, TTEC.  That is how I had a profit today.

Robot:  10 winners, 1 loser, profit 3$
Yea three dollars,  when the market dropped around 12 it took a loss.  My stop is 40 points, so 200$ went away also. I also started him late-because I woke up late today-wonder why?

Other Stuff: problems at work caused my no trades.  I did not get to sleep until 4:30 am because some inspector wanted secret codes to my store register.  It's been over 24 hours and I'm still ranting about it.  And I'm still mad, mad, mad.  It is not the first time of being asked for codes, nor is it the first time the inspectors were told not to touch our registers, ever, period.  In the past some inspector actually downloaded programs, crashed the register and cost me 3K to have it replaced.  Now another inspector said he just wanted to download a program to help me out, so he would not fail my store.  WHAT A JOKE!  NOBODY GETS THE FREAKING CODES.  HOW STUPID CAN THESE PEOPLE BE?

Fantasy Calls: Not tonight-I have a headache---ha, ha, ha

I'm Green

For some reason today I seemed afraid to trade, I only made two trades on the YM.  Maybe last week shook me up.  I know that I bought on highs today, minutes after I told myself not to buy at these levels something just suckered me in.  I think it was a GS daily high alert or something that caused me to buy the YM even higher than the first time I said don't buy that here.  While I had to suffer through the down side, all the while calling myself stupid, Robot pulled off bunches of trades.
But--had it been just a few days earlier I would have exited at a loss--I hung on and let this trade ride into a winner.  It turns out that "maybe" my stops have been so tight (60$ on any trade) that I ended up just churning a lot of trades.

Robot:  23 winners, 1 loser, profit 282$
Dejavu-yesterday's numbers.  Robots last trade had to be called.  He was in the trade for over an hour, I let it run into after hours on hopes he could exit it, but I had other things to do, so I'm just calling that trade a loser.  I had always believed that some stocks moved so much in a range that you could pull a dime out of the move almost no matter what.  That is how I began to build Robot's brain.
The good news--two days in a row Robot has posted these great numbers showing these small profits could add up to making money--the other news---
It seems like once my Robot gets in tune with the market that their super computers change their programing and it could take a month for my way of thinking to work again.  This has happened before, Robot was doing great and all of a sudden things just changed.  Today I mostly starred at Robot and what he was doing.

Other Stuff:  I learned how to put music on my videos
It gets rid of that noisy moving the camera around noise!  Now if I could just get my zoom to work while the movie is on again, oh and do something about the blurry pictures.  Still working out!  That p90x stuff really wants you to contort your body something terrible.  My biggest brag is that now I can make it through the warm ups without collapsing.

Fantasy Calls:  It's such a lonely, lonely, lonely world.  sob, sob, sob, aaaaaaaaaa

I'm Green

I'm up just over a hundred dollars.  For some reason I just stopped trading midday.  It might have been that last trade went bad by 80$ before it went good, which worried me about losing the day's profits.  So I played with the Robot and made him a video star.  It is blurry-but hey.  Most of his trades run in about two or three minutes.

Robot:  23 winners, 1 loser, profit 277.76
The one losing trade cost him 200$ in profits, I thought it would be difficult to ever miss the trade by 40 points-but it happened.  His day went up to +190 to down 10 or 20 then he built it back up to the plus 277.  Kinda proud of him.  I let him make two trades for me today, then I got worried about the embedded stochastics and turned him off live.  That was about the time of his losing trade.  I thought about giving him a break when the stochs looked bad, but he just needs to trade to develop his brain.
Oh, all of the programs for Robot are free--Quote Tracker(running on paint bar alerts), Bracket Trader, and some others listed on Boogsters blog, or at HPT's blog(which make Robot send out the emails to buy and sell).

Other Stuff:  There is no other stuff, I'm just addicted to trading.  Today is payroll which means my day will start at 7am and end at midnight--(oh waaaaa, Bob!)

Fantasy calls: ahahahahahaha

I'm Green

I ah was down 450$ today, man o man was I depressed.  Before the close I put on one ym contract.  Came back to check my stocks, run the gorilla, change stops, listen to day trading radio.  AND, AND, AND, AND--MY YM IS UP 102 POINTS--AT 5 DOLLARS A POINT--I'M GREEN--I'M GREEN.
I watched it for about 5 minutes and then sold the thing.  The whole day I kept saying why can't I get this thing to go my way big.  I made about 14 round trips in ym to lose that 400 dollars.  It was the same old story sell low buy high.  My first three trades were winners-after that things fell apart.
My greeness is only about 70$, but getting out of that 450$ loss and being green gave me back a little smile!

Robot:  18 winners, 3 losers, plus 175.54
I changed him over to a profit taking at 5 points and a stop at 40 points.  His stop use to be 20 points, but the three losers, so I upped it to 40 points.  It would be a huge loss if it went wrong, but 40 points is a lot to go wrong, and with just 5 points to get out.
Lets just say that after this change every trade was a win.  I noticed that he can also put on three or 4 trades an hour, and at 20$ for a win, it would be 60 or 80 dollars an hour.  On paper it all looks great-real money is always different.  But I had talked about how my trades with the Robots exits made money while I was losing money, the reason for this was Robot was grabbing 20 dollar bills and I was saying go higher and kept watching my profits slip away.

Other stuff:  Tonight's workout was not that hard, guess I was just dogging it.  Wrote a lot, huh?  Still have that dug my self out of a hole smile on.  Quite a big hole too, yep it was a nice one, sure hope I stop digging holes soon.  With my deflated accounts--alright I'm just whining.  And I'm a green so I'm happy..... anyways.....

Fantasy calls:  huh?

im red

Lost about 250$ today.  Really kinda sucks, as losing money always does.  It seems I got the direction of the market backwards a lot today.  My trading went like this  up 50$, down 250$, up 10$, down250$, up 20$, and finally  down 250$.  Once I had both the es and ym on and I let 150$ in profits just drift away.  Sometimes I wish I was smarter, or just more in tuned to what the hell I'm doing.

Started the first of withdrawing my money today. (I need to remodel a store)  This bit of funding for my company sucks.  But , after my bank turned down the loan for the company, what I was left with was some one charging what amounted to 80% in finance charges over 3 years.  There is just no fucking way I'm gonna pay that kind of interest charges.

Will be opening a new account with mb next week (with futures of course, I have to be able to exit positions without government restrictions)  And I believe I have found a loop hole to keep my ib account even with it below the 10k minimum balance.  At least I hope I read that correctly-everything I have set up is running from ib feeds.  I'll find out next week.

Trading the es and ym should give me plenty of opportunities to still beat my daily goal, even with a drastically reduced account balance.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Robot: 13 winners, 4 losers, plus 222.58
He mostly traded on my cues, but he made money,  mostly because he would grab a profit on a down turn while I would just sit there and watch my profits dwindle away.  Robot might have to change to cyborg--where I call the trades and he calls the exits--huh a manual robot--why that's not even a robot.

Other stuff:  The phase two of my inane attempt to attract Barbie by building muscles involved one arm push ups as normal sets.  Both of us just stared at the instructor thinking wtf are you talking about.  Todays workout is just normal kill me, while tomorrow is a new actually will kill you workout in phase two.  Can't wait

Fantasy calls:  No calls---I'm still a kegger, or is it just me ?
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Beat my daily goal

Sweet, another day in the green.  Only had 4 trades  1 in the ES and 3 in YM.  In the past I've traded a lot more on the ES, but it just feels like the YM is easier to keep a profit.

Robot:  15 winners, 7 losers, minus 247.24
Teaching him the YM is gonna be harder than I thought.  He seems to grab his entry a little bit late and half the move is over by the time he jumps in.  His settings are a stop of 20 and a win of 7.  You really have to juggle all parts of his brain to get him to trade with a sense of decency (you know, making a profit)

Other stuff:  Soon it's workout time, gotta go find my book, cause this week it's move up to phase two.  Hope I live through it.

Fantasy calls:  In my delusions someone could be stalking me.  Let the fun begin!

doubled my daily goal

I'm a green today.  My overnight es short was great, but I let 400$ in profits slip away.  I kept starring at it going up just saying it is supposed to go down.  I should remember-THINKING IS NOT ALLOWED IN THIS GAME-seriously.
My broker went down for a half hour today.  While my broker is down I've got another es short on. It is covered by a stop loss.  But I was holding a profit and had not changed my stop to keep my profit intact.  Panic, and then watching Day Trading Radio who usually always has the es up made me realize the es was dropping.  But then when the feed comes back on the stupid es spikes a point or more..I can't believe I was up 100$ and as soon as it's possible to grab my money it spikes up.  But after a few minutes of cussing the es drops again and I grabbed 4 points.
Yeah

Robot: 27 winners, 7 losers, minus 138$.
I don't think he can trade the es.  His brains were trained on appl.  But since me and the sec don't get along, Robot needs to learn how to trade the futures.  Cause we are just too bogus to trade stocks.  I think I'll try and teach Robot to trade the ym futures this weekend.

Other stuff:  i don't exist (just how do you spell that word?)

Fantasy calls:  I guess i don't exist--so am i alive?

im red

Down again, sigh.  Only have 5 stocks left that I have not been stopped out of yet, none have profits.
I have an ES short on for overnight, hoping the employment numbers are terrible and I'll be rich tomorrow.  Or I'll just be poorer. Eh whatever.

Robot:  17 winners, 8 losers, minus 656$. 
We just talked about this, his trickery to get you to think he is doing good and then blow out your account. (trickery--got that word from one of those phony email scams)

Me and the girls:  uh huh  huh what

im red

seems to be the theme now a days.  Three weeks to build it up and one and a half bad weeks to tear it down.  Started trading the es.  Cause, you know.  While I was at a meeting I had a nice profit, but when I got back it was a loss.  And just now the es spiked up a point.  It's funny how the hope flies in.
I misplaced the comcast store, so I could not get a replacement cable box.  Comcast goes out 2 or 3 times a week on me-and in this world that can't happen.  I do have my backup qwest to run off of.  But since comcast did that double your speed for free, its faster than qwest.  I never thought I would have two cable companies, but the first trade that goes horribly bad while your trying to get a quote from the television covers the extra 600$ a year.
And now that point spike in the es has all but disappeared.


Robot:  29 winners, 4 losers, plus 190$.  Its a false sense of security, he lulls you in then you put up real money and he tanks.

Other Stuff: Just had time to work out and eat dinner.

Fantasy calls:  Wait, is my phone number unlisted?

frick it all

down 650$  Life sucks.  Am hoping my business can succor its own loan so I don't have to give up my account to fund a remodel of a store.  If it aint one thing its another.  Banks won't  loan money they get from the fed for what .001%, but they charge everyone 30% on their credit cards.  They all go broke by overpaying execs, and claim they are loaning money.  What has this got to do with day trading.  My account could drift down to less than 5k if I end up using this account to fund a remodel required by a franchise that can't notice the present economic conditions.
But plans for now and maybe then.  Open another account to trade stocks in.  Here again, the SEC won't let me trade stocks with less than 25k in my account,  and the reason behind this? (ya we are all listening SEC)   So in the second account I can still trade stocks, in my first frozen account (now why did the SEC decide I can't trade stocks again?)  I can trade futures as much as I want without the SEC claiming they are helping traders, by restricting their accounts.
Maybe I could give today trader 50 bucks to shadow him for three days and make 4 or 5 grand a week like he does.  Sometimes most of a day goes to God I need some help.
Anyways after today's loss I'm only about 200$ away from having my day trading powers being yanked once again. Big bad SEC will freeze my account from trading stocks(I wonder what stupid new rule they are thinking of now to help investors?)
I wonder how good I can get at trading corn?  Or whatever crop the Feds are paying farmers not to grow, so I know where the next shortage is.  Hey Feds just how did the price of fertilizer skyrocket like that?
Wish  I was smart enough to make money that I would not have to spend my days bitching about how to find more money to drive an economy as my part as a small business owner...with out any help from govt supported banks who say they are loaning money.  yea it goes on and on....

Robot: 17 wins, 5 losses, minus 176$

Beat my daily goal

yep, had almost a triple, but lost a lot on aapl trades.  So I ended up 50$ away from a double.  And lost 100$ while I was with the repair guy fixing my heating and a/c.  He asked about all the monitors I was watching.  I mentioned day trading and people who make thousands a day doing it, but that I was not one of them.  He stopped working, looked at me and said " why don't you follow what they do?".  He made it seem so easy.  Got stuck holding an aapl short overnight.

Robot:  He grabbed 2 after hours spikes for big profits which changes what really happened. He was down like 62$.

fricking RED

down another 500$.  still holding my large amounts looking for  a  stupid comeback.  only have one 500$ bill left before I lose my day trading powers   AGAIN    I was so close to being a hero 

Robot 28 winners, 5 losers, plus 236$
changed him midday to trading 200 shares 13 cent profit, 60 cent loss

Other stuff:
Fantasy calls:
too fricking depressed to give a flying fuck

fricking RED

I'm down like 600$.  Today sucks.  Over traded my self all over the place.  And then I switched to revenge trading to try and get even.  I'm still holding a bunch of my revenge trades.  Huge share amounts for me.  If we tank tomorrow I'm gonna cry.
The same as  a stock that hits that resistance, so goes my account when I get close to making something happen.  This is at least the third time in 3 months that things could have started happening for me. 
Both of the other times I fell below 25k and lost my day trading powers.  I really hope my revenge trades don't burn me tomorrow and push me back to losing my day trading powers yet again.

Robot:  Don't know, don't care, did I mention I'm down a shit load today?

Other stuff:  bite me

Fantasy calls:  bite me

Red

I lost 70$ today.  I let Robot have my first two trades of the day.  He lost me 140$ dollars and then I was down 200$.  It was a strange day.  I went from down 200 to up 200 to down 200 to up 200 to down 70.  In the last half hour I ran four short trades in appl.  And every time I looked at my p&l it was not moving, I kept wondering how bad it would have been if I had not kept making those appl shorts.
I'm up against the wall.  If happens to me a lot.  I get to a point where I'm so close to meet a bigger goal and things get haywire.  The second time I was up 200 the first thing I started doing was changing stops to keep my 200 from disappearing.  before I was halfway through my list I was already in the red again.  Having a huge list of holdings just came up and bit me.  Now I'm down to about 9.

Robot:  13 winners, 10 losers, minus 403$.  What a stupid day to let him trade my money.  He had been on a winning streak lately.

Other stuff:  Wow, it's fricking cold in here.  My thermometers say it's 60 but that can't be right.  How could I get frostbite at 60 degrees?

Fantasy calls: huh what?

I'm Green

Almost...made my daily goal, only 10$ away.  I let Robot make a trade for me.  I was planing on letting him trade on my account all day, but I got scared.  Tried msft today,  it seems more mellow compared to cmp which took me all over the place today.

Robot:  15 winners, 3 losers, profit of 102$.
I forgot to mark his progress at lunch, I was too busy watching my own account.  But I will tell you today I made 7$ in aapl, while Robot made 102$.

Other stuff:  From when? just last night?  aaa let me see....I traded.  Started a fire, cause it's fricking cold in here without any heat.  And when it was hot I complained about the heat. Some people...

Fantasy calls:  huh what? whatever

red

I'm down 260$ today.  Pretty sucky.  Got so close to making things happen just a couple of days ago, and now two losing days in a row.   Had cmp drop a dollar on me, and some bank dropped 3 dollars on me.  Tried to trade my way out of it and v went bad gmcr, gs all did not want to go the way THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO.  uh well....
Really the only thing working for me today was aapl and c.  A while back aapl was way too hard for me to trade, and now a days I'm in and out of aapl many times every day.

Robot:  ---at lunch 14 wins, 3 losers, plus 102$ (his new trade times are 8 to 12)

Other stuff: Hey it is cold.   I thought it would be okay this week, but 44 during the day time has me all bundled up.  might have to breakout the portable heater soon.  Glad the water bed is heated, otherwise I would wake up as an icecycle.

Fantasy calls:  I heard someone say one of the names.  Wow, things are so grrreat.

i'm red

I lost like 50 or a 100$ today.  Today was going to be something good.  But I think over confidence got to me.  I only needed 100$ to turn green for the year, and I felt like no problem, it will just happen.  Fat finger trades were all over the place.  MA had a stop 30 cents below where I got taken out, but you know the story, ya we just got you a better price.  No you didn't--there was no trade at my stop, you took my money and then the stock immediately jumped up and kept going up.  I hate it when they fat finger me!
I let Robot make a trade for me, but when he had a profit I over rid his programing and caused my self a loss because I got greedy.

I'm short aapl over the weekend-hope it works out well.

Robot:  8 winners, 2 losers, profit of 22$
If I wouldn't have butted into his trading I'm sure he would have had a better day.

Other stuff:  Just what is going on when the business address is an apartment complex, and the next address is on the fairway of a golf course.  I asked the company why they sent me to these places to buy their equipment and they just kept juggling me from person to person saying it was not their department.  I did something good over the weekend, but I just can't remember what is was.  At least I think I did,  hmm, now I not so sure.

Fantasy calls:  Maybe they are doing their hair

I'm Green, almost doubled my daily goal

The title says a lot.  Trades in AAPL,GS,BKE(thanks Goat),COP,BAC,MON,QQQQ.  I think I trade MA just because it always tries to burn me-it's a personal thing between us.  I'm down to holding 10 stocks-I added a couple today, but I'm still thinking about going flat at the end of every day.  But my swings do okay too.
  Had some bad fills today and some how a GS trade with a bracket of 50 cents went of and gave me a 5 cent loss.  Sometimes IB and my shortened two click orders just go off when I hit enter while I'm throwing the key board around.  I've seen orders get canceled just because I touched the wrong key.  But the speed on entries is a must--I remember way back when I owned 50 shares-hit sell--my platform defaults to 100--and now I'm short 50 shares trying to figure out what I just did.  And then I get out of the short-made the same mistake again and end up long another 50 shares, whew, it was hard to make money back then!

Robot:  24 winners, 5 losers, profit of 142$.  I'm getting closer to let him run live for hours, today with my extra profits would have been a good time.  But when I'm moving a ton of trades it is hard to watch Robot, I just leave him to himself.

Other Stuff:  My new lamp showed up and my new big ass tv finally is plugged back in and has a picture.  I've owned this brand new tv as a paperweight for a week now. I sure hope it can pull out more than 1 day of viewing pleasure this time.

Fantasy calls:  Girls, 4 days of working out in a row--the muscles are starting to pop.  I'll be taking reservations as soon as I stop aching from the pain.  CALL EARLY    hint, hint, nod, nod, nudge, nudge, need I say more?

I'm Green

I was so much more greener.  I lost my profits in AAPL and then some.  Also some new stocks to the group introduced themselves in a bad way. MON, TIN. along with ESRX.  It is surprising that I came up green today, because those four hurt me huge.  Anyways, sold out of atw,clwr,gs, slt, sohu,bmc,mhs,gmcr for profits and I still have 18 stocks that I'm long.

Robot:  11 winners, 4 losers, minus 50$.

Other Stuff:  Thought I had clean clothes ready to go, but I didn't.  Holey jeans and dirty t-shirts for me.  I'm still watching after hours hoping I can still get out of aapl with a profit.  I should just sell everything 'cept for my swings at the close and trade the es and ym after hours so I can still trade.  Funny how es turns out to be some kind of word, and is spelled right.  Do futures count as stocks?  doesn't matter they still all ended up in the wrong section. sigh im addicted

Fantasy calls:  that feeling something was gonna happen?  The title of this section makes so much sense it is scary. 

Red

I'm down 20 dollars today.  Had good day trades in qqqq(500 shares), palm, jazz, ma, and of course aapl.  The 500 qqqq is my start of upping share size to grab a bigger slice of my piece of pie.  Having a trail on the larger shares might not be the best way to exit.  Robot actually did one of my aapl trades today and gave me an 18$ profit in 19 seconds.  It is always fun when you don't have time to sweat out a trade.  It turns out buying bigger share amounts helps to get out of trades with a profit easier, but I'm holding 200 clwr and down 20 cents and I still carry my 60$ limit for a loss.  Larger share amounts require more and less wiggle room.
My holdings kept growing today, making a swing in one point from minus 175 to plus 90.  This is something that is hard to stomach for someone who usually trades small share sizes.  We are talking these swings occur in 5 or 10 minutes-not like one of Robot's trades today.

Robot:  9 winners, 1 loser, profit of 109
Had one trade today that lasted for 3 hours-kinda cuts down on the amount of trades when he gets stuck in a trade.  But he takes it all with not a care, I'm trading like a mad man and look over at Robot and he is just sitting there for hours humming to himself.  Robot is down to trading 100 shares so I can let him run live more often, he is set to 20 cent profit or 60 cent loss (that's my 60$ loss thing showing up again).

Other stuff:  Been working out a whole 2 days in a row now, and it's starting to ache.  That, and the lack of air is making me tired, sore, and dizzy.  Almost didn't put up my charts tonight cause I was so tired--whoops trading stuff goes up above.

Fantasy Calls:  yo.............I been working out!   yo!

Beat my daily goal

just one losing day trade DNDN my stop just got spiked and then it went up  and up and up,  sigh I lost 49$ on it. 
But beating my goal is always a good day.  It's been a while so here goes the current holdings list
BAC, C, BMC, ESRX, HAS, ISLN, INSU, MDRX, SLH, SLT, TDC, VRX, GS. 
for todays daytrades and exited out of:  V, TSO, MHS, MA, KR, HURN,GR, GMCR, DNDN, AAPL(3 TIMES)
It keeps me busy.  My account had some wild swings-about 100$ a couple of times, luckily I stayed green all day long.

Robot:9 winners, 3 losers minus 24$
On a day when I'm moving this many  stocks I really didn't pay attention to his trades.  But his first two trades were bad--which is a timing  problem on my part--he needs to be started when he has a good chance at a set-up.  Not just turning him on whenever.  He still has a chance to go live again, I've cut his share size to 100.  The smaller size keeps losses in my range, cause last time that 160$ loss kicked my butt.  I don't let any of my trades go that far bad.

Other stuff:  Car has been operated on at a second hospital, and I'm gonna bring her home tomorrow.  Hope she is fixed for real this time.  Stupid big ass t.v. part is supposed to be here by friday.  Huh I remember when other stuff had lots of humor in it.  You've changed Bob.

fantasy Calls:  ah, so this is where the humor is

Bleeck I'm Red

Lost what I made yesterday.  Just about every trade went bad.  It was all so depressing.  But I'm still green for the week.
I let the Robot do a live trade for me--Robot only had 1 loser today out of the 17 trades it did.  Do I need to tell any one which trade the Robot did for me?  Welcome to my day of trading.

Robot:  17 wins 1 loser profit of 313$.  At lunch he was 10 and 1 for +220.  After lunch I dropped his share sizes to 100 (from 300).  My plan was to let him trade live today-but after the first losing trade (mine) I just couldn't let him touch my account--and he goes on to win EVERY trade but MINE.

Other stuff:  My brand new big ass t.v. is a 65 inch paper weight.  It goes with my trading day.  The city stuck a slow curve sign in my front yard.  I just got things to bitch about--let me just go get the list.........

Fantasy calls:  where oh where?