MATK

I had one long position today in MATK, it advanced nicely at first but then came back in together with the rest of the market. I reduced my risk and got stopped out for -0.2R. On a positive note I traded back on plan so overall I feel much more at east with today’s P&L […]

Ben’s mission

A nice post on Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up about people’s perception of Ben Bernanke in light of his predecessor. At the end of the day the general public (investment public or otherwise) needs a scapegoat to blame when things are going rough.
As far as the economy, Fed policy, the Dollar and interest […]

How do you know you’re a geek?

Another post in the series of
Q: “how do you know you’re a geek?”
A: When you communicate with a friend living 4 hours ahead of you in another continent through entering sentences into cells in a shared online spreadsheet service launched in a limited release a couple of days ago..
Btw, Google Spreadsheet is really […]

HGSI, ESLR and CELL

Some more bad longs today, 2 this time. HGSI ended in -1.1R, ESLR stopped me out before proceeding to advance upward without me -0.9R. And the original trade I was focusing on: CELL short with +2.1R so the P&L was dug out of the hole to close BE. I’ll be looking at tightening the execution […]

Meeting time

Almost the only thing I’ve been doing right this week is to keep to my stops. Other than this I’ve been doing all kinds of mistakes. Not sure if it’s over-confidence and the feeling of playing with ‘house money’ or whether it’s lack of focus and concentration as I’m facing some unusual demands on my […]

CUTR & ONXX

Another big selling day, and what do I do? Go long CUTR, well I should have known better but I didn’t and took -1R on it. I also had a short in ONXX and took a partial which was good since the stock rallied the entire 2.5R or so back to my BE point. The […]

TWS Scanner vs. Trade-Ideas Stock Scanner

Livermoreghost has asked in a comment to a previous post about the difference between the results I get from InteractiveBrokers’ Trader WorkStation built-in scanner and the Trade-Ideas scanner so I thought others might be interested in the same and I put my response in this post. This isn’t an all out comparison of the two […]

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