Monday Trades

Quite a boring and choppy day for me. Traded AOB, OMTR and DCEL. None worked too well with the large whipsaws we and I ended up with -1.2R. I’ll keep waiting for that one or two trades a week that seem to make some money.

Storm

There’s quite a storm going on outside now. Windows opening by themselves, wind shreiking all over the place, laundry flying, doors slamming. Not very conducive to sleeping ;-) as if I needed another excuse lol.

So what have You done so far?

OK, since the markets are kind of slow I’ll try to entertain bore you with stuff I come across on the net.
So, how old are you? Wanna feel crappy? Check out Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age.
I’m 33 and this is the list. The ones I liked are in bold.
At age […]

Changing through language

Interesting research on how the language we speak affects our thoughts and view of the world.
LSA: About Linguistics
..Whorf said that because English treats time as being broken up into chunks that can be counted—three days, four minutes, half an hour—English speakers tend to treat time as a group of objects—seconds, minutes, hours—instead of […]

Internal clock

My weird internal clock is at it again. I got about 1.5 hours sleep yeterday before trading started at 9pm, that together with the fact that today is Saturday meant I was up all the way till 5am Saturday morning (5pm Friday EST). It wasn’t a bad idea since I managed to squeeze a few […]

Friday trades

I took lots of trades today. Especially when I saw the shorts not working I thought we might get some buying kicking in later. I was wrong. Anyway, I shorted NUAN and COGN which both didn’t work. I also had JBL, TASR and SMSI. Eventaully SMSI saved the day’s P&L and I ended with just […]

Thursday trades

Damn tough for me to read the market tone these days. Maybe because there isn’t any tone? :-) Anyways today looked like a down day so I was looking primarily short. Stalked ESE, HRB and CAKE and got into CAKE. Then things turned green and I started looking for a long to hedge in case […]

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