Take it easy in December.

I set no goal for December. I've made enough money for this year. It is a nice bonus for the family.

November result.

I lost a lot money yesterday by catching a falling knife-- oil.  (Oh well, everyone makes mistakes especially I found no challenging with my old boring trading method. )  Lesson learned.

Thanksgiving is nice.

I got more points for my NQ contracts. :-)

I bought Iphone6 plus recently. I really like it.  I guess it boosted my confidence of holding NQ contracts.
 

Trend following.

I will probably reduce some of the positions by Friday. We'll see.

Chart

Trade what I see.

If you paid the attention, I actually opened the positions of VXX last week as some sort of hedge. But the market is in the rally mode, I had to close it. Did I know that the market would rally more due to the news that China cut the rate?  I didn't.  Luck?  No, I don't think so. That is what I called to trade what I see.

It is impossible not to make money.

  We just enjoy it while it lasts.  I don't mind collecting the paycheck from the market until I'm not able to. :-).

  I never guess whether the market is going up or down. I just trade what I see, I get paid more with the swing positions. I even spent less commissions than what I did last month. :-)

Another day...

Beautiful Hawaii

Yes, I traded from 5:30 am to 6:30 am local time.  Yeah, a good day!

Trade today

not much... but  I have short and long positions while I travel.

Last year, when I was in the big island, I made 20K in a week. (FED meeting and I didn't have internet. DOW ended up 300 pts and more points later). 

But I will have internet most of time this year and I will watch for my positions. :-)

Tomorrow...

Hawaii time.

I might trade a bit  to pay for the activities there.

Stock trading is boring.

  I guess that is the way it is supposed to be?   I don't want to be cocky here. But it is boring, We just apply what has worked over and over.  Nothing will really surprise us for the most of the time, if we calculate the risk ahead of the game. It is probably not a good idea to try something new, especially for me, since I don't want to lose money.

On the other hand, when I design software , I can try a lot of new ideas and feel very good when I solve the problems.

Here is the report for the month.

   First of all, I have been very busy at my daily work.  I also didn't want to take a lot of risk for the crazy market (up 200 points in one day and 300 points drop in the next day).  I'm lucky to have an engineering job. At one point in the month, I hated the stock market and shifted my focus to work. Later on I got so used to the market huge swings and became very calm when people were very panic. (Vix was at 31). I have been holding NQ from 38XX, ES from 1937, YM 169XX with proper short hedges.

 Yes, the account is at the record high and I only paid $410 for the commission for October,  while the commission was $650 with less profit in September.

 Ok, I will post it again by the end of November or when I'm not very busy.