Reviewing my trades

Another crazy day in the markets, but the fat lady hasn’t sung yet so who knows.. I was taking some time to review trades from the past 10 days or so. I keep screenshots of portfolios containing my morning candidates so I brought those up and started loading symbols in charts to see what happened […]

What a week, and what else can I do.

We had some really nice volatility this week with a couple of strong trending days (obviously down trending). Lots of opportunities to (mostly) short the heck out of stuff. It’s on weeks like these that I wish I would have pressed harder, took more trades, increased R size etc. but it’s of course very difficult […]

The Anatomy of Re Learning to Trade

So as those who’ve followed this blog for a while know, I had a nasty surprise in January. My usual dummy shtick that I used for 2 years to make money stopped working. A number of people asked me about this and why I stopped updating results so I thought I’ll write something. It is […]

Traders Skills and my Strengths and Weaknesses

As some readers may or may not know I come from an IT background. I’ve been around computers, software and IT people more than 2/3 of my life. Largely I owe my thanks for this to my parents who bought me a Spectrum Sinclair 48K when I was maybe 10 and since then I was […]

Left or right side of the brain?

Which one is dominant for you?
My sis sent me this via email. Which direction is the lady turning, to the right - clockwise or to the left -  anti-clockwise? If you see it turning clockwise then your analytic left side is more dominant while anti-clockwise means your creative right side is more dominant.

At first I […]

Change and Psychology

I enjoy reading about popular psychology so Babak’s recent post on conscious choices led to a bit of google’ing and then a bit of Amazon’ing and I ended up reading a book by Kevin Hogan called: How to Get Anyone to Say “Yes” in 8 Minutes or Less!
I’ve only just started it but I can […]

A couple of observations

1. De-coupling. I wish I could find a way to de-couple my overall feeling of well being from my P&L. After almost 3 years of trading close to day in and day out, I still find I have  mood swings related to my P&L, sometimes more subtle and sometimes less. The reality is that each […]

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