Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Bad IP address??!!!


No trades today as not able to access the exchanges-so frustrating!!! Apparently I was told that I have a bad IP address and I have no ta clue how to deal with that, waiting now tomorrow to speak to an engineer. Crazy indeed!

Do not remember that one happening to me but there you go, so I can only wish good luck to myself tomorrow!

Monday, August 30, 2010

Indian Summer


It was a bank holiday today so I got the opportunity to catch up and slept almost until lunch time. Actually I could sleep much more but the sunshine came into my eyes, yes this month has been amazing weather wise, almost everyday as been worm,without rain and pretty sun-shining!

On the trading front I made 9 trades, 1 in the red and 8 in the green, with more than 9,5% green on my stake. Early in the evening my internet connection broke down and I had an open trades so had to cancel them trough the phone-pretty scary moment indeed!

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Trading lines


I have a headache today from trading! I thought that will never happen as I enjoy it enormously especially when I am winning, but yes the day came when that happened. I made 24 trades today-that must be the biggest number of trades since I started the new approach.22 of them were in the green with two in the red which brings just over 22% green on my stake. I feel really exhausted though, 5-10 trades are ok but more than that and Ican feel my old age! Today a friend of mine donated a picture for my home office- a nude lady looking trough a window in black and white, really artistic I must assure you of that!

Today is the 37th trading day since I started my new approach.The results up to now are encouraging. I try really hard to follow it and not to go out of line - as today again I was 100% there will be a goal in the Liverpool game at some point after the 20th minute. Yes there was a goal but there will be times when there will not be so I am actually proud and happy to be able to stick to my new approach. The average trade brings back 1,29% on my stake. At the moment I do not have a stable stake but hope in a month time to be able to have one. Still very early days though as I had many times very good starts to 'new approaches' and they all finished in a disaster.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Dont like errors!


Today made 16 trades, with 15 in the green and one (the last one) in the red. It is so annoying when I do something stupid, like the last trade where I was in the green and did not concentrate enough and went into the red,errrrrrr. I hate mistakes done from stupidity, and I get really frustrated, so went on to chase the loss but then cooled down and stopped as things like this will be happening now and again and I just will need to accept it. The second trade in the day was quite unique and frustrating too as for more than 15 min I could not trade out due to liquidity issues. The positive note is that I made just above 20% on my stake which is pleasing.Was away in the morning for my weekend squash game and then was away in the evening as well.

So Ibra went back to Italy and now is with Milan, good move for both sides as he did not show his great potentials in Spain.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Today


I was out tonight and managed to do just two trades. Made 2,60% on my stake and looking forward to tomorrow's trading.

Went out for a meal with some friends and had a few drinks. When I got back home I was itching to trade but there were not much, so I got involved in a trade where I should not go really with my new strategy of trading. That was naughty, so I will have to avoid this kind of trades in the future.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

The Den


Recently I have moved to a new flat because the old house where I used to live was sold out. Now in the new one I have a dedicated room which I called "my office" or the mob's den as my colleagues at work call it. I always dreamt to have an office where I can trade freely without disturbing anyone. The unique point at my office is that it has a sea view and I love staring at the sea for no reason.I am still in a process of creating it, so far I got a few chairs an old table and my old laptop. The idea is to create a proper trading office with TV screen connected to a satellite where I can watch live most football games which I trade. That is a big issue now for me as Sky for example does not offer many live games and all internet feeds are late with 30 seconds at least. I generally love watching football so will try to find something suitable which can provide live football games.

Today made 11 trades and made just above 9% on my stake, 10 of the trades were green and one went into the red where I had to cut my losses and run, but trades like this will happen now and again. I was happy as I had no control over it and reacted accordingly so i could save my stake from a disaster.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Mandarin


Today made 8 trades which is quite surprising given there were not that many games. The result is all of them ended up green with more than 17% back on my stake. Very satisfactory evening with Barca-Milan claiming the biggest portion of the green today.

I was trying to buy addidas trainers for my father all evening and could not find anything good and reasonable so tomorrow morning need to continue my pursuit in addidas hunting.

Tottenham unsurprisingly won my more than two goals, I was expecting nothing less but as i am sticking to my new philosophy I avoided the trade.