Happy new year to all

I didn't trade much in Dec and I haven't found a new job yet. I'm so into the trading so that I don't have time for the job hunting yet!. Here comes a new year. What should I do? :-) Time will tell. Here is my return for 2012.

Weekly summary. (1427.75---1457.75)

I need to switch my focus from trading to seriously looking for a job. So I closed pretty much everything at the open. (Yes, I missed today's run). But it is okay. I recovered the last week's loss.
Start of the week:

End of the week:

I will not trade until I have a job offer. So bye for now. Enjoy your trading.

Monthly report(1394.5---1474)

Start of the month:

End of the month: . I told myself not to trade last week since I booked enough profit. Too bad, I need someone to lock up my computer :-)

Weekly summary(1424--1457)

Here is the start of the week.

Here is the end of the week:

I made way too many mistakes.

A terrible week

This week is the worst week for me this year.. My account was 84k before 6:30AM last Friday and ended with 82K. I screwed it up BIG TIME on Wednesday and Thursday. Don't ask why. I was just stupid and cocky. Easy come, easy go. My account went to 75K some time this week!!! Dumb, Dumb! OK....... I will post more after my Zumba dance.

Today is the day

that I need to work hard to look for a new job sine I can't bring money everyday from the market. But I can bring money home from my daily job. LOL.

Weekly summary(1443.5--1462)

I truly learned my lesson. Good thing is that it is only less than 2K cost. I still have Dec contracts and will sell at the opening. I deposited 4K into my account.

updated: I sold most of ES at 1451 at 3:03pm. I'm pretty much in the cash position now except 1 es and some KBH stock that I bought on Friday. I will do some planning for the next week!

Something that I didn't pay attention to

just costs me $1000. What is the exact time ESU12 expires? What is The ES option expiration time for today? Anyway, I'm still confused. I will wait until Sunday after IB clears out my contracts.

Maket updates

It is traded in a narrow range after last week's big run. I don't see any great day-trade opportunity so far and don't want to add long or short positions here. Ok, forget about it and I will look for new job!

Weekly summary(1421---1474)

I started this week with short positions in my hand. They were in the money on Monday. Monday night, I bought couple ES at 1423 to hedge my shorts. But still short-biased. On the fed day, I sensed big rally, reduced my shorts and switched to long. In the process, I made some mistakes. But I managed to make money.

What happened if I just purely held long positions? (I can't sleep well. LOL). I still have ES that I got at 1423.
By the way, please do't just look at PL. I've spent countless hours doing the researches and backtests. Here are some exmples:
I had used all of indicators in the past.
I programmed the systems to buy/sell.
I read a lot of books including Al Brooks's books (haha, I have to give myself credit on this one. It was so hard to read!)
I went to LBRGroup for couple months.
Anyway, you name it, I might have tried it.
Now I came up with my own style of trading. So far it is working.
Have a nice weekend.

Weekly summary(1394 ----1438)

Yeah..Spot the trend and ride with it! After one year of Zumba, here I am:-)

8/24/12 Weekly Summary(1395.25--1424.75)

It has been a difficult week. I've found some problems with my strategies. I sold a lot of calls so that I won't profit much next week. Have a nice weekend.

8/21/12 Tuesday

It is a VERY BAD day for me. I didn't follow my plan which was to reduce the longs at the opening. I did the opposite and I pretty much averaged down losing positions. I shut down the application and I need to think about a way to get out! I drank two bears already and am still at work! Trading is no fun when the direction is totally wrong!

Weekly Trading Summary(8/13---8/17) (1394.25---1416.5)

Have a nice weekend.

Weekly Trading Summary(8/6---8/10) (1387---1403.75)

Have a nice weekend!

Weekly trading summary(July 30-- Aug 3)

I didn't plan and trade well for the last two/three days. Oh, well. It happens.

July summary

I'm still not happy that at 1pm they collected my positions. But I've collected $XXXX this month. It is slightly more than last month. I will take a break since I'm assigned to a new project. Once I speed up with the new project, I will come back trading again

7/31/12 Tuesday

It was my position!! I set a protected stop and they collected it!! 1,371.25 !! Man. I should have booked the profit instead of waiting for tomorrow. Geeze!!

7/30/12 Monday

The market consolidated with very small trading range and Vix jumped almost 8%. (That is why I have a daily job or else I would have felt bored). I added more positions and will adjust them on Wednesday morning.

7/27 Friday update.

It has been a very stressful week for sure. The ES range is from 1321 to 1385. It is crazy. I'm glad it is over and I ended up making money. Have a nice weekend.

7/27/12 Friday

I woke up at 4am since I have some concerns about my positions. So I reduced some delta just now. Now I feel better and go back to sleep. I still have positive delta. I will post the update later. Sigh!!

7/26/12 Thursday

I tried to get a screen shot from IB, but it only shows today's trade.So I went to the account statement and copied the result from there. I will cut some swing position with $200 loss tomorrow. It is a stock position. I don't like to bet on earnings but its earning date is on next Monday. I probably will do nothing except that. That is why I post tonight. I don't do DT but do the weekly swing trading. I pretty much closed the positions I opened last week and opened new positions and dynamically adjust them.

This week trading summary

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7/18/2012 Thursday

I resume posting. Probably you still remember me, I stopped posting 3 months ago but I never stopped trading. I went through couple bull and bear cycles so that I know deeply in my heart that if you know how to cut loss, you are already a top 5% trader. I will not post PL on daily bases since I'm not a day trader. (I was one before).

judy