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Trading tantrum

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Trading and tantrums go well together.

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  • Sidelined waiting for the market to fall

    Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 10:09 in procrastination, good, fear, trend, expectation, market timing, losing trade

    I’m not used to waiting. I’m not a patient trader. That’s probably why I’m a losing trader. But recently I have been waiting…. and waiting for the market to fall and fall big time. When it comes to market timing it seems...

  • Shorting VW leads to suicide

    Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 12:55 in bad, vw, short, ratiopharm

    Just shows that no matter how rich you are things can always seem like they can’t get any worse.   German billionaire Adolf Merckle committed suicide after losing €400 million when a short on VW went against him.  This wasn’t his onl...

  • Volatility gives me a headache

    Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 10:48 in bad, price, loss, volatility

    Have been doing OK until today when I ended with a loss of 54 points. It was the volatility what did it guv. All trades were short but entries were too early and the stops too tight. At least I avoided running after the moves so loss on the day but a...

  • Still sticking to the rules - just

    Posted on Monday December 1st, 2008 at 12:23 in profit, good, standard & poor, ftse 100 index

    Nice to have a profiatble start to the week and that only happened because I stuck to the “rules”. Problem is I’m really not sure what the rules are. Placed a total of 3 trades today, all short and all profitable. The first, 30 minu...

  • Walked away in front

    Posted on Saturday November 29th, 2008 at 07:22 in good, cnbc, ftse, s&p 500

    At last I got a day right. In the morning it looked like the ftse and S&P futures were up near resistance so I went short with a tight stop. Of course I got fried again as the stop was too tight (as usual, I wonder whose moving the levers). When ...

  • Out of the trading hole at last

    Posted on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 12:10 in Trading, profit, skill, good

    Took a profit from the surge up but don't think it was down to trading skill or strategy...

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