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