green

Green, but then, who wasn't today?  No changes in the portfolio today, just hanging on to stuff, although  MSFT tried for the ole stop out trick again.
Thinking about letting Robot go live with real money, for the first hour or two.  With today's gain I might have just enough cash to be able to buy one futures contact on the YM.  But instead of writing this, I need to go through his records to see how his win percentage is in that first hour or two.

Robot:  13 winners, 11 losers, plus 202.76
His first 5 trades were winners.  Which put a thought in my head---I hope it doesn't get lonely in there all by it's lonesome.

Other stuff:  (this space intentionally left blank)

red

yep, it sucks.  Sometimes I think if MSFT stopped out, I would have enough cash for one futures contract.  Not being able to trade really sucks.  Hoping for a position to hit my stop so I can trade is just stupid.  And my other view is sell all my holdings so I won't be stuck in any thing.  Just having futures trades during the day sounds sane, but I just need more money to trade.  It just seems like they are slowly dwindling down to my stops while just dragging on the agony.
Dumb moves of the day--didn't take my profits in GS and TM

Robot:  7 winners, 10 losers minus 107.42
Should have shut him down for the last hour, but I was not watching him then.  During that last hour, he hit 4 losers in a row.

Other stuff:  ya, I never see the light of day, I'm just holed up here in front of my screens watching charts, and when the sun goes down, I'm just holed up here in front of my screens studying charts.  Yep typical day trader.

green

That's amazing. Not sure how it happened.  For most of the day I was resigned to have another lousy day.  yea for the up days.
Added GS today @151.92.  And I'm really surprised I was not stopped out of anything.  But MSFT was only 7 cents away, NETC only 11 cents away.  TM had a nice turn around-I'm hoping it can rebound a lot more.

Robot:  27 winners, 24 losers, plus 2.74
Still tinkering with his brain.  Messing with the stp and t1, and also trying to put in a profit protection without getting stopped out with a 5 dollar profit.

Other stuff: really? what's that?  Trying to eat more than one meal a day.  It is really messing with my head.  You see, I'm trying to lose this kegger, and then I'm supposed to eat 5 times a day?  It's all so confusing.

red

It was a bloodbath.  I beat my daily goal on the losing side.  It has been months since that has happened.

Out DLB, put in an 85 cent trail from it's highs.  Earnings turned out to be really good.  Thanks.
Today made me consider dumping all my holdings and being all cash.  Tomorrows jobs numbers will make me wish I had.  Hit the sell all button, it'll make things all better.

Robot:  18 winners, 16 losers, minus 104.10
It sounds worse than it is.  He had a plus 290, and could have just stopped trading after just two hours.  But the more trades, the more info.  Getting time to try and figure out why he did 4 losing trades in a row is worth all the cussing.  And, actually on two of those trades, I could say "what are you doing?" and be right.  A little bit side kick (psychic) I guess.

Other stuff:  I ventured out into the world today to visit a sick ice machine.  And people were unusually nice to me.  Really, the lady from the hair shop started carrying bags of ice from my car for me, people politely said no finish what you are doing I can wait for my drink.  It was really a strange adventure today.

red

I added TM, had to try and catch the  falling knife.  It went down a dollar more and I still hold it.  Hoping for the bounce tomorrow.
Also added G, I was following a trend on that one.

Robot:  13 winners, 6 losers, plus 59.06
For the first 5 trades it was a 4 point profit and a 20 point stop.  He did five winners and then put up a loser.  At that point I switched him over to a 10 point profit and 12 point loss.

green

two days in a row, what a streak!  Took my profit in GS today.

Robot:  10 winners, 15 losers, minus 1208.
With a bunch of holdings to watch, I have little time left to work on him.  And I need to get him back on a winning trend so I can start trading the futures again.

Green

Sold my BRK.B and bought it back again.  It's  a sentimental stock for me.  I almost always had a graph of BRK.B up when it was 2 to 3 thousand dollars.  Added GS, had a 1 dollar profit and didn't take it, now I'm down and gotta hope it goes up tomorrow.  Was almost stopped out of my MSFT, when I look at that chart, that giant waterfall right after I bought it, I just had to put in a stop to stop the pain.

Robot:  12 winners, 19 losers, minus 1294.12
wow, when I messed with his brain, I really messed him up bad.