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Trade Journal – What A Mistake!

October 26, 2009

1:23pm – Put a trade on today at 9:09am. It was a $44 put on the Q’s for Nov. @ $1.10. Well, I bailed to protect some of the profits too early. I just spaced an forgot to look at my confirming indicators before I punched out.

It only payed 34%. That is the good news. The bad news is that the trend down that I was following has resumed and currently that same option is at $1.62 which would have paid somewhere around 45%. Not a big mistake but I’m at the sidelines waiting for another trade to form and I’ll have another set of trading expenses.

Note to self: Check BB’s on a 5-min chart before ever making another trade.

1:43pm – looks like it wasn’t such a bad trade. The Q’s look to be moving up again. The confirmation for the trade I made earlier looks to be at hand. So I was just a little early. Just another case for the accuracy of my other indicators.

Patrick

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Trading Like A Hitchhiker

September 18, 2009

Many years ago I had a chance to travel from Hamburg, Germany to Flensburg, Germany along the Autobahn. I did it with 4 other students carrying 5 people’s luggage in a VW Bug. It seemed to take about 10 hours. The person that owned the 5th set of luggage had to work and didn’t start the trip until 4 hours later. He hitchhiked his way up. By choosing his vehicles right, a Ferrari and a Porsche, he got to Flensburg 2 hours ahead of the rest of us.

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