Still alive, still trading every day. At the point in my career now where I'll trade if I feel like it or if the opportunity is good, but I'm close to switching to putting in 30 minutes a day of work and managing a swing trade portfolio. I'm still daytrading a couple hours most days because it's cold outside and I have nothing else going on. Still better than a real job.
Thanks for the update. Rereading your thread with a little more experience in stocks, it made a lot more sense, particularly when it comes to the volatility bursts you guys have in your P§Ls. As an ag futures trader, I never had those. In futures, you make slightly more with vol but never 10 times + your average day like you were experiencing in fall 2008. Happy to hear you are still around. I was thinking the only *really* bad thing that could happen to you was an OO spreadsheet bug of epic proportion. I have a strategy where I send about 120 orders at the same second and I crap my pant every time ( I have 6 different automated checks before sending ). It is more dangerous than OOs though as it is during the main session and orders are immediately active. Good trading.
What type of trading do you do these days? Many years ago I think you were in a huge opening order crusher.