DAY 11 I guess this was my own little Stalingrad. 9 points in the hole. When the day ended could not believe my eyes. So for the day I am down around $500. I feel distraught and it is only papertrading. Lessons learned today: 1. Concentrate on what you are doing. Tell people to fuck off especially colleagues who waste your time with lame stories and bad jokes and tell Erma to go fuck herself and her stupid DVDs (inside joke you had to be there to understand it). 2. Stop trying to be in the market all the time. It is not sex, you can stay on the line and not develop self esteem issues (this one goes to T28). 3. Stick to your strategies, which means when 1 point hits, one way or another you are out. discipline, discipline and discipline. 4 Found out that I still don't know jack about trading and there is more to learn and analyze. Well, manana is another day and this "trading winter" cannot last forever. saxon22
No post today. Spent the day cleaning the house for my wife's party tomorrow afternoon. Looked really good. I need to get to the point of making enough trading hire someone to work on and clean the house. I don't think my vacuuming is worth more than the potential that was in the market today. I hate cleaning! JIM
DAY 12 Light trading but.... I was up 5 points. 5 x 50 - 3RT x 5 = $235 less 40% in taxes = 235 - 92 = 127 NET NET = $127 Got lucky, but it is better getting lucky than getting screwed!