CSCO, AMKR, NOVL

None of my positions worked today and all of them closed for -1R each, for a total of -3R loss. Not a very outcome for the day. It was all chop from what I could see, maybe I sould have scratched them as they continued to hover there even after lunch time.

Are we going anywhere?

Hmm it looks like the market is in some kind of stalemate going half a step back and forth.

NOVL, STEM

A frustrating day all around. My first choice of trade shorting TRLG was not possible. It would have played out nicely. Instead I took a long trade in NOVL despite seeing it was not a true unusual suspect anymore, that resulted in -1R, I should stop trading these, they have a lower win rate. The […]

Dejas vu

Well, this is not too surprising.

EDIT: Probably a good thing IB didn’t let me in :D it’s looking pretty dead in the water. Looking at the pre-market one can be probably guess why, which something I should have looked at more carefully.

Didn’t miss

Well it looks like it was a good decision not to trade yesterday with not much going on and a few people reporting tough market conditions. So what’s the deal with the elections, can we non-Americans who are less involved assume it’s all over now and back to normal market conditions?

Tuesday

Took the day off to go voting - just kidding ;-) I did decide not to trade though. I can’t remember when was the last time I had the choice of whether to trade or not and have chosen to skip the session due to non-market related reasons.. Anyways, I went out tonight to the […]

Trader ZBS

Special thanks to ZBS from Trader ZBS. He has a neat Java program he’s written for IB for generating P&L stats off daily and monthly statements and he has been kind enough to send me the code. After a quick compilation running it was a breeze and it generates in seconds what otherwise would be […]

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