Wednesday, September 9, 2009

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!

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