Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
+6.3
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
+2.3
Slow day, only 1 trade for +2.3. For some reason the blog isn't uploading the graph. I'll try uploading again tonight.
*Edit - Added chart
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Rangy no trade day
No trades today because couldn't find a good place to get in. Was ranging throughout the session. On to the next one.
Monday, June 20, 2011
-10. Today the trend was not my friend
Friday, June 17, 2011
60 Day Challenge Afterthoughts
My 60 Day Challenge.
It started rough with big changes to my lifestyle, became smooth sailing in the middle, and ended rougher than it began.
Within that length of time I renewed bonds with old friends, almost made a bone marrow donation (the recipient opted out), visited China for the first time, went through a breakup, got surgery on my eye, and strengthened ties with family I hadn't seen in years. I went from feeling like a noob in the markets to feeling like a gifted trader with a golden touch to feeling like I know nothing and should give up to feeling grateful to the market and happy to pay for it's teachings.
In a span of 6 months what do I have to say about the experience? Depending on what point during that time frame you ask me that, my reply would be different. As of now it's this; Thank you.
Thank you to my friends, my family, the readers of my blog and journal who have commented and shown support and a huge, HUGE thank you to the Market.
Yesterday was a roller coaster of emotion but contained within that misery was an invaluable lesson. The Market has clearly shown me what works. It has also shown me, just as clearly, what does not work. My pain was rooted in what I felt I lost, but what have I lost? The money was in exchange for showing me what not to do, what does not work. That knowledge alone is worth the price I paid many times over. In a very real sense I have paid for information and thus have gained. I'd like to say that my tuition is paid in full but that would be naive as I'm sure there's more to learn. However, I'm looking forward to putting my new knowledge to use on Monday and moving forward once again.
Oooooooohriiiiiiiiiiight!
It started rough with big changes to my lifestyle, became smooth sailing in the middle, and ended rougher than it began.
Within that length of time I renewed bonds with old friends, almost made a bone marrow donation (the recipient opted out), visited China for the first time, went through a breakup, got surgery on my eye, and strengthened ties with family I hadn't seen in years. I went from feeling like a noob in the markets to feeling like a gifted trader with a golden touch to feeling like I know nothing and should give up to feeling grateful to the market and happy to pay for it's teachings.
In a span of 6 months what do I have to say about the experience? Depending on what point during that time frame you ask me that, my reply would be different. As of now it's this; Thank you.
Thank you to my friends, my family, the readers of my blog and journal who have commented and shown support and a huge, HUGE thank you to the Market.
Yesterday was a roller coaster of emotion but contained within that misery was an invaluable lesson. The Market has clearly shown me what works. It has also shown me, just as clearly, what does not work. My pain was rooted in what I felt I lost, but what have I lost? The money was in exchange for showing me what not to do, what does not work. That knowledge alone is worth the price I paid many times over. In a very real sense I have paid for information and thus have gained. I'd like to say that my tuition is paid in full but that would be naive as I'm sure there's more to learn. However, I'm looking forward to putting my new knowledge to use on Monday and moving forward once again.
Oooooooohriiiiiiiiiiight!
Week 17 stats
Ooomphala. What a doozy week 17 was. Didn't trade today so I could sort through my emotions. More in the next post.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Day 60. -131.
Today was a bad bad baaaaaaaad day. And it all started off because I didn't take a 2pip loss. Jesus, that sounds so retarded, hah. Oh man. That's a -32% loss in one day. One day wiped out all of last months gains.
I'm a better trader than this and it's time to get it together.
I'm a better trader than this and it's time to get it together.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Day 57 -14, Day 58 - 8, Day 59 +5.
Rough Monday and Tuesday. Giving back what I made on Friday. However, I see where I went wrong and how to remedy it. Thus I took it a bit slower today and came out positive.
I didn't saved the charts the last two days because I didn't want to see them after the session, hah. But that's dumb because it doesn't allow me to reflect properly later on. So from this point I'll make sure to post up all the charts. Speaking of which, I will be posting the NT charts here on out instead of Oanda charts. Since my trades are based on the range charts in NT, post analysis is best done with those. I should have been doing that since the beginning. This means I have to mimic my trades in the NT sim so the entries/exits will be slightly delayed but that's fine. It will still allow me to see what I need to analyze my trading. I'll post an NT chart from today's session this evening.
*Edit - Today's charts added.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Week 16 Stats
Only 1 trading day in this week since I was only able to trade today. But it was a good gain for the day, reclaiming a sizable portion of week 15's loss. Also, even with less trading days than the previous month AND the huge losing day I still had a bigger % increase this month than last month. Nice.
Day 56. +14.2. John Connor sent me.
Got back last night and to get back on my trading schedule I stayed up all night. Which I was kind of used to anyway since over the last couple weeks I'd been sleeping all day because of the surgery. Then I couldn't get back to sleep until 5am or so. So not too much of a stretch this morning to stay up. Come 8pm tonight I'll be dead tired which will be perfect.
As for trading, I don't know if it's true but mentally it feels as if Monday and Friday are the hardest days. Monday because it's slow, Friday because it's all over the place. But I felt up to the challenge and went with it. All standard trades. Small losses + Bigger wins = Me gusta.
In other news, I look like the Terminator with how red my eye is from the surgery. It should be fine in a couple weeks though. On our way across the border I was wearing sunglasses to protect my eye. Pull up and the agent looks through our truck and passports then looks over at me, "Hey son, take off those glasses."
*I take them off and look at him.
"Well shit!" he gasps. "Put those glasses back on and keep driving" and he waves us through.
Hahah. Had a good laugh at his reaction as we drove off.
Anyway, it's now time to play some gee-tar and enjoy the weekend.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Pterygium removal - update
Well, I got the procedure done yesterday morning and everything went fine. My friend emailed me in the afternoon asking how I was feeling and how it went (I'm in Mexico so my phone it out of it's network). I replied with the following...
Procedure itself was cool. Not much pain. Was a weird sensation. They used some drops to numb the eye a bit. Then when laying down they taped my eye open then us used this metal thing to hold it wide open which was uncomfortable. Then this light that was as bright as a police searchlight was brought in and shone directly into my eye. That part sucked. Reaction was to close my eye but I couldn't. Then they took a needle and inserted it into two places on the side of my eye which was the main numbing agent. Those needles hurt a bit. But after the full numbing went into effect there was very little pain.
From that point the they squirted water in my eye and some other stuff. Then they used a scapel to start cutting away. I could see the whole thing through that eye of course but could only feel pressure. It felt like if you put your eye up against the windshield during a carwash. You're looking out seeing all this stuff happen to your eye and your vision is affected but you don't feel anything. When they would cut and tug at the layer of eye when threading the stitches through it would distort my vision and then it would go back to normal.
Took about 40 mins then they bandaged me up, gave me a prescription for the pharmacy. Got the medicine, came home, napped, and just woke up and my eye is not feeling good. The stitches are constantly scratching the inside of my eyelid. Feels like there's thorn tips in there. But just gotta deal with it. Going back tomorrow for a checkup then once more next week to get the stitches removed. That will be a good day.
So today I went in for the checkup and they said everything was looking good and scheduled the stitch removal for next Wed. The gave me a prescription for some eye drops to put in every 4 hours and ointment. The stitches were still really bothering my eye so I came home a took a nap and when I woke up it was actually a lot better. Still a bit scratchy but much better than before. I put the drop in my eye just a bit ago and it was the first time I got a look at my eye since the procedure. It wasn't pretty, haha. It looked exactly like you'd expect if your eye was sliced by a knife. Could also see the stitches in there. Fortunately it doesn't feel anywhere as near as bad as it looks and in the coming weeks it should go back to looking like normal except no pterygium. All praise be to Allah! And Jesus. And Buddha.
I originally thought I'd get some trades in but with my sporadic sleep schedule cause of naps and my eye feeling not so bueno I've decided not to trade. Just been browsing the net and playing guitar. Which I'm about to do now.
Procedure itself was cool. Not much pain. Was a weird sensation. They used some drops to numb the eye a bit. Then when laying down they taped my eye open then us used this metal thing to hold it wide open which was uncomfortable. Then this light that was as bright as a police searchlight was brought in and shone directly into my eye. That part sucked. Reaction was to close my eye but I couldn't. Then they took a needle and inserted it into two places on the side of my eye which was the main numbing agent. Those needles hurt a bit. But after the full numbing went into effect there was very little pain.
From that point the they squirted water in my eye and some other stuff. Then they used a scapel to start cutting away. I could see the whole thing through that eye of course but could only feel pressure. It felt like if you put your eye up against the windshield during a carwash. You're looking out seeing all this stuff happen to your eye and your vision is affected but you don't feel anything. When they would cut and tug at the layer of eye when threading the stitches through it would distort my vision and then it would go back to normal.
Took about 40 mins then they bandaged me up, gave me a prescription for the pharmacy. Got the medicine, came home, napped, and just woke up and my eye is not feeling good. The stitches are constantly scratching the inside of my eyelid. Feels like there's thorn tips in there. But just gotta deal with it. Going back tomorrow for a checkup then once more next week to get the stitches removed. That will be a good day.
So today I went in for the checkup and they said everything was looking good and scheduled the stitch removal for next Wed. The gave me a prescription for some eye drops to put in every 4 hours and ointment. The stitches were still really bothering my eye so I came home a took a nap and when I woke up it was actually a lot better. Still a bit scratchy but much better than before. I put the drop in my eye just a bit ago and it was the first time I got a look at my eye since the procedure. It wasn't pretty, haha. It looked exactly like you'd expect if your eye was sliced by a knife. Could also see the stitches in there. Fortunately it doesn't feel anywhere as near as bad as it looks and in the coming weeks it should go back to looking like normal except no pterygium. All praise be to Allah! And Jesus. And Buddha.
I originally thought I'd get some trades in but with my sporadic sleep schedule cause of naps and my eye feeling not so bueno I've decided not to trade. Just been browsing the net and playing guitar. Which I'm about to do now.
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