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?

Beat my daily goal by almost 50%

wow, good day.  Had problems with AAPL and MA.  I don't know what happened with AAPL, I'm usually good at trading AAPL.  MA-this thing I just can't trade.  AAPL -- I had 20$ and didn't put in a stop and it turned into a loser -- need to remember day trades are to take the money.

Robot: 24 winners, 5 losers net profit 5$.   Now his trading time stops at 11:30-cause after 12 he pulled 3 losers.  A loser cost Robot 168$ each.

Other stuff:  Got to see my accountant and visit every store for paperwork and do payroll--so I ain't gonna have any other stuff and will probaly be working past midnight.  A 17 hour day minimum, so there is no other stuff.

Fantasy calls:  For some reason I just have a feeling something is about to happen.

Beat my daily goal

uh huh!
AAPL (I told it we would be friends cause it gave me everything back but 3$) AAPL tried to kill me --twice--  at the open I'm down 100$.  Later I try AAPL  again and now I'm down   166$.  But the rockstar helped out with a pick. And my depression was not so terrible, but I did have to dig myself out of that AAPL hole.  I caught the short for 2 dollars when it tanked-that was fun!
Beating my daily goal seems to be occurring more and more lately, so maybe it's time to raise my goal?  Ya, you get cocky and you know what happens!
But today I upped my share positions a lot.  More than 3 times my normal buys.  I do need to make more money, and I need to learn how to trade larger share sizes and still control the downside.  I always try this when I've got a cushion in my account balance--I really need to get to the next level.
Truly I still buy at highs and tell myself I was trend following.  And what has been helping my account is better entries-not this buying at the high trend following stuff.  Or at least I think so?  The AAPL short was a trend, and basically they are almost always some kind of trend,  AAAAggg I'm so confused.    I'm still working on this and tell myself "bad bob" every time I break this rule.

Robot:  21 wins, 4 losses  profit 58$--Robot will now only trade until 12 (my time, 2pm-trading time-est).  He is very successful early in the morning between 8 and 12, usually averaging just 1 bad trade during these 4 hours.  Hope he does well cause I want him to start earning his keep.  His total cost was 100$ to get bracket trader to use any stocks-other wise with a limited number of stocks Robot was completely free.  He runs with QT,Bracket trader,IB and emails.

Other stuff:  HSN is late for bringing me my big ass tv--65 inches.  Wish they would hurry cause I just need to veg on the couch in a stupor.

Fantasy calls:  Seriously girls, you're not even trying!

Im a Green

Fell 30$ short of my daily goal.  I made money but (don't know what to put here, just happy and sad.  Nah, guess I'm just happy-green days are good.
Watched the Goat pull close to 4K on one trade---I WANNA BE A DAY TRADER. 
I'm down to just 10 holdings.  All the rest stopped out for profits.  6 of my holdings are red (so much for picking the bottom)

Robot:  I don't know,  he had 7  winners in a row and then dumped all his profits on some bad trades at which point I just stopped paying attention to what he was doing and I think he ended up plus or minus 30$. 

Other stuff:  4 hours of sleep

Fantasy calls :  sigh, why do I punish myself with this category?

Beat my daily goal

I like that title.  Two days in a row.  I'm pretty happy.  Most of my core holdings are still holding on, only 4 or 5 stopped out today-all for profits.  AAPL was a good trade, then I tried it again wrongly.  It ended the day flat and I'm still holding AAPL.  The Goat pointed out a rising stock with a huge short interest and the whole room jumped in and drove it way up-I pulled a whole 15$ profit, while the stock ran on for two more dollars after I chickened out.  I would love to have hit this for size-while I have the capital-it just doesn't fit in my stop loss plan to hold that many shares.  The loss if a large share holding reversed would be too great for my account even if it was just a couple of pennies.  60$ is usually the max I'll allow on any trade, unless I wasn't paying attention and something slipped by.  The Goat being the day trader he is hit it 3 different times, picking up 500$ bills like they were lying on the ground.  It is always fun to watch these!
A holiday weekend---that means no trading for 3 days--bummer, that sucks!

Robot:  5 wins, 2 losers, loss of -52$

Other stuff:  Took the car down to get her breath checked-cause out here in Colorado the mountains don't kick out enough air for humans to breath so we have to curb our cars.  Nothing like L.A. we can see  20 feet in front of us, the wind blows everything out to the plains.  And Kansas is starting to complain, please, just wait till they find out where we dump the radioactive waste from Fort Saint Vrain.  Shh, ya didn't here that here.  Theses are typed words, duh.  Unless your the kind that reads with his lips moving.

Fantasy calls:  my imagination always plays tricks on me

Beat my daily goal

oh boy.  day trades were the usual APPL, GS.  AAPL wasn't really a day trade, but it usually is.  APPL was up for me 1$ pre-market and I didn't take the money, then when the market opens it falls and I'm down almost 1$ reminding myself how stupid I am.  I encourage APPL at the top of my lungs and finally it goes up .72 for me- it was quite the battle.  Made 1$ a share got greedy and watched it all disappear only to finally get most of it back (my recap of what I wrote-I talk this way too-repeating everything I say).
Still kept buying more new names-oh and MV merger talks oh ya!!!!
I'm holding (takes a  deep breath) BMC,C,CMP,DGW,INSU,ISLN,JEC,ME,MV,NG,
NITE,ORCL,SEPR,SLT,TDC,UNFI,VRX
that's a lot
I'm trying to get this more closer to my actions in my IRA account.  Where day trades are rare unless I make quick money.  It turns out to 1 or 2 maybe a week.  And I try not to do a day trade until I'm up 3 digits.  But what really goes on is--when my account is down I get depressed and don't trade, when my account is up I'll trade a lot.  Today my account went from up 80$ to down 120$? to I beat my daily goal.  Yesterday V got stopped out in the first half hour and then 2 cents after my stop  it just reversed.  Sometimes before the close, and the first half of the open you just need to take down your  stops.  But I ramble on  so.......

Robot:  4 wins, 2 losses, profit 11$.  He is trading GS right now and just can't get good entries and ends up in the trade for about an  hour.

Other  stuff:  Doing nothing today, tonight so I can get over my illness--just stocks, charts, trading.  While it may be the hardest job ever, you still can't call it work or a job--it's just way too much fun and enjoyable.  Whoops back to stocks again in the other stuff section(shows ya how us traders feel).

Fantasy calls:  She wasn't on the list but for a little bit there I was gonna write a story, a tale, a weave 'bout a young lady who---aw never mind it's fantasy calls not fantasy tales.

I'm Green and SEPR is halted

Got into 3 digits today, that is good news!  It means also that I have my day trading powers back.  SEPR got halted-the way I figure the buyout price should be around  $27.  But I aint that smart-but I'm sure hoping when they reopen SEPR it gaps up 2 or 4 or 20 dollars.

Robot:  On the YM 2 wins 7 losses for -$908.  So I switched him over to GS and he came up with 4 wins and 2 losses for $6

Other stuff:  When I woke up my voice was changing on me for hours, which means it is hard to hold up my head, form thoughts and use this key board thingy.  I even forgot to leave my name when I was flirting(stalking) my new subscriptions blog.  In simple terms, I'm sick.  I couldn't even form sentences at a meeting today-don't know if they felt sorry for me or just believe that I am stupid.  Doesn't really matter--cause if you aint on the list-I forgot my thought.

Fantasy list:  I'm singing in the rain, just singing in  the rain-do de doot do doot doot de do doot

frick it all

I'm down over $400 and lost my day trading powers once again.  Back to trading futures for me.  And today the only good day trade was a YM futures trade.  Otherwise all my stock day trades lost money.  Besides that, I'm holding 13 positions.  I tried to add more of my holdings on the dips-hope the fricking dip is over!  I've got C,V,BMC,ESRX,INSU,MR,MV,NITE,ORCL,SEPR,SLT,TDC,UNFI.
I really don't need the markets to tank again.
The only joy today was watching a cartoon of HPT's 25k loss.  Makes me laugh so hard I cry.  There is a short version on my You Tube.

Robot: 24 wins, 14 losers minus$1387.

Other stuff: Lots of its are gonna be running around-tis the season.

Fantasy calls: ehhhhhhhhhhhh