I would like to write it down some fact about this quater.

  I lost a couple thousand dollars during this quater.  It is ok money management. But it could have been a lot better.

 

 

WOW, It will be a big UP day tomorrow.

I was not lying

The people from the back-up offer haven't given up yet. Haha... Sorry!

Yeah, I did repeat myself for the same mistake.

and I didn't like it that much.  I cashed out everything last weekend and bought a house over the weekend.  There were 5 offers in total.  We offered higher than the listing price and also pay cash for the house. As a result, we got the house. :-)
 
Going forward, I will only play 1 to 4 contracts and focus on the booking profit. If I get better, I will trade normal again. 

I'm making the same mistake again.

I probably will give half of the profit back by the end of the week. I don't know why I didn't book all of the profit instead just a little. It is really hard to change the old habit.


I post today's P&L and will see how much it is left by the end of the week.  Maybe I will change after a while.

An office joke.

   I'm fast and type without thinking sometimes. I emailed my boss an issue and sent him the following message right away.  HAHA!

9/21/15 Monday Update

  I think the market will probably be pretty  calm this week. It means Vix will probably drop down more to the teens. The range I'm comfortable with is 1930--2000. 

I'm making money on the long and the short positions now. It is pretty cool. But if it lasts couple more days, I will book the profit. I will come back to check the market in the last hour of the trading.


3:40 pm:

Money came to me way too easy today.  I may end up not able to keep it. Sigh!

I went to a fire pit party

last night with friends.We had a great time. Some of my friends mentioned investment and 401K plans. I found out some of them do trade stocks. After I talked about my trading ideas and the returns for the last several years, they were all "WOW" me. It just made me more cautious.  Some times I'm getting over confident and feel that I'm better than most of people. (Good thing is that my husband tolerates me). Actually that is a pretty stupid thought.  I need to be more conservative and careful with my positions.

But on the other hand, I think I will make money this week again if there is no fat finger. Ha! It is hard to change a person. :-)

After buying a house, I think my mind is to plan an Europe Trip with my hubby. Oh, well.he does the most of the planning.

Plan for the week.

Buy dip on Nasdaq future(NQ)

Weekly summary

 We got 0 fish  today and I drank beers so that I didn't feel like trading on the boat.  I will build positions next week. It's a good week and I actually made progress to break some my old trading habit.

Index	Started Week	Ended Week	Change	% Change	YTD %
DJIA	16433.09	16384.79	-48.30	-0.3	-8.1
Nasdaq	4822.34	4827.23	4.89	0.1	1.9
S&P 500	1961.05	1958.08	-2.97	-0.2	-4.9
Russell 2000	1157.79	1163.37	5.58	0.5	-3.4

9/18/15 Friday Quadruple Witching

I've had a good week, I will open some position in the last hour. I will use this week's low as a reference. I will not be bearish but bullish with cautious.

I have today off. I will head to the boat with my hubby soon! 

I'm so emotional now.

 I finally get rewards for my hard work.

Although I can probably get more money from the stock market, I feel so different that I've won my client''s trust by just being honest and nice and get their business.

9/17/15 Thursday

We better just wait. Actually news really does not matter.

I should be very proud of myself!

I broke the trading habit and actually BOOKED some profit as I PLANNED.
Yup. Yup. I'm feeling really good. :-)

9/16/15 Update

Back to normal.  I will book some profit at SPX 1995-2000 if it ever gets there today or if the balance of my account is 5K higher than yesterday.
Until then, I will be busy with some other stuff:

1. Morning walk with my hubby now.
2. Set up for C and others. :-(.
3. Prepare the document for the appointment at 3:30pm.
4. Be good and positive.

I have been not in a good mood the past several days since there are a lot of things going not smoothly for me.

My client is very hard to work with in my side project. (On one hand, I had the attitude that I don't need your business, I do it for fun!  On the other hand , the more he acts difficult, the more I want to prove that I'm capable to do it.).

I was also assigned to do the impossible at work in my opinion.  The only thing that makes me happy is my positions in the trading account.  It is a steady income for now.

8:20AM:

  I will check the market in the last hour. Time to get busy with more important stuff.

12 PM:

   今天多了好多钱钱。 我老毛病就是得意， 不去BOOK PROFIT。 然后过几天钱钱又不见好多。 今天我要行动， 一定去克服这个老毛病， 过２０分钟BOOK一点...我自己说的１９９５－２０００。 真的快到了呢， 又舍不得了！今天真的改！！

9/15/15 Tuesday

It is all about problem solving.

I don't want to be upset when running into problems. I need to have a positive attitude.

As a result.

1. Call Ann at noon to explain the process.
2. Raise my voice at work.
3. No need to trade after the adjustment in the morning.




Can I pretend that I haven't read their emails? They just keep asking me stupid questions.

My name is mentioned several times in the design meeting. It is great to be needed. Really?

I just talk nonsenses here.

9/8/15 Tuesday

  It is cloudy and I'm sore so that I'm not going to have my morning walk.
  The market rallies. Let's see how it goes.

  Don't forget the range we are at after the sell-off two weeks ago. Quickly adjusting myself to the new range mentally and physically is the reason that I'm where I'm. :-)

7:00AM

9 AM:
1. Somerset .
2. Calculation.  done at 10:40am
3. Ping M.

10:40am:

 4. Testing the bridge.
     4.1 Test failed at 11:10 am.
     4.2 I will try it again at 11:30 am and failed again at 12:25pm.

   

9/7/15 Monday Labor Day

  We did bunch of labor work this weekend. Es is closed at 1931 in the morning and 9pts higher. The balance is 5K higher. It appears that the market moves towards my favorite. It is just number. :-).
  This time I actually come up with some strategy to close the positions and will apply it later this week.

Next Week

A quite week.

Last 16 years

Actually I know the consequence

ahead of time. Check the time I wrote that. I didn't publish it since I didn't want to face the reality. I'm so predictable.

A sunny day and weekly summary.

I don't want to beat myself  up too much.. I choose to forgive. :-) But I'm on the way to change now since it happens so many times.

Index	Started Week	Ended Week	Change	% Change	YTD %
DJIA	16643.01	16102.38	-540.63	-3.2	-9.7
Nasdaq	4828.32	4683.92	-144.40	-3.0	-1.1
S&P 500	1988.87	1921.22	-67.65	-3.4	-6.7
Russell 2000	1162.91	1136.17	-26.74	-2.3	-5.7

Here is mine.  PL > 0. YTD% > 0.

That is positive thinking. :-) I do correct the mistakes. Sometimes it takes a little time.

Help is needed.

    I really need some action to change my trading habit. Here is the P&L for Monday to Thursday.

Yes,  it is close 4K per day. What kind of work pays that much? Why didn't I book the profit? How can I change? I was pissed off yesterday since I was not able to click the buttons and close them all, especially I planned it!

I  don't even want to post how much I lost today.   I've done this many times!

What would  have you done if you were in my shoes?  Please share your thoughts.


That was No.2 on my solution to reduce the loss!

9/4/15 Friday

I will write lesson to learn this weekend. But here is the ES range for this week for now :

1898.75---- 1987.75

9/3/15 Thursday

  I was not able to do it as I planned last night. I struggled a lot and still can't do it. My method gives me a steady return and I don't want to try this new approach. I don't know what I should do if I close all today. But on the other hand, I should have closed all since it would have been almost 29K profit  for the last 9 trading days!

  I might reduce some long positions by the end of the day. 


11:20 am:

   Haha. You guys know why I give back the gains! It is all ME and no one can really help me. I don't want to be too harsh on myself at least I tried.

9/2/15 Wednesday

No need to trade.

11:20Am

 I mentioned that I will close/reduce the positions if I get two these notifications in a row.
Can I really do it?  If I can, that means I change my trading style!  That is a big change!
Now I hope that I don't get the notification tomorrow since I'm not ready yet!

A real big improvement.

Normally I would have suffered a big loss for the past two days' market action.  I'm very glad that I can survive the market correction like this. But I have to admit that I was under pressure.

I'm thinking about the same question too.

I don't sell any service. I do find trading is boring. I do share my thoughts and keep myself honest.

Is there any positive return from blogging?  No.

Did it help me trading? No.

Is there anyone who cares whether I blog? No one.

9/1/15 Breaking down!

Not my trading account. :-)

Oil $3.4 off.

I hope that the DOW is at least 500 pts down by the end of the day.

I've not traded yet since the balance moves around 1%. (Yeah, it is amazing! ) Maybe the market provides a great opportunity for the day-traders.  But be careful!


I will check the market out in the final hour.

Yes, I did my morning walk in the rain.

11:30 AM

Stock market is such a dangerous place. I can't believe that I still have a good return this year.
I really want to close everything for the year!

But I know I would feel bored after a while and go back again!!

1:30pm.

By the end of the day. the loss is 2%. I didn't want to do anything anyway.
I made 2% yesterday. easy come and easy go, ES dropped 77 points for the last two days. I ended up flat.

I considered I improved.