Monday, November 30, 2009

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.

Friday, November 27, 2009

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.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

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   

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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

Monday, November 23, 2009

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.

Friday, November 20, 2009

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.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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

Monday, November 16, 2009

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!

Sunday, November 15, 2009

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. 

Friday, November 13, 2009

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. 

Thursday, November 12, 2009

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.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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?   

Monday, November 9, 2009

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.

Friday, November 6, 2009

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, November 4, 2009

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!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

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?

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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.