It’s been a good week. I decided that it is time to get back to the basics. I don’t swing trade well. I understand trading ranges, and can use technical analysis to make some great trades.
Last week, I stopped this stupid emotional cash hemorrhaging trading. I’ve earned it all back and them some in just [...]
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My account is getting ground into hamburger. I did really well using options to make quite a nice profit in my account… Then I decided it would be fun to try and swing trade the “Ultra” ETFs. I really, really suck at that. I’ve managed to grind about 20% out of my account in the [...]
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What a mess we are in.
I’m not quite sure where to start with this post, simply because there is so much good information available about what is happening out there today. I can say however, that I am not looking forward to the next few years of economic developments.
The house of cards is tumbling down. [...]
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Today Megan, Ryder and I headed off to Evanston for a Kellogg Alumni tailgate before the Homecoming football game vs. the Purdue Boilermakers. NU simply stomped on the boilers today. It was a really good time.
The pre-game tailgate was at the Allen center, and very fun. We had a chance to meet a bunch [...]
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I haven’t played any paper money positions over the past few days; however, I’ve been swing trading this market daily and it has been quite a ride!
I started the cylce week by going long (calls) with a vertical spread on the 6th, bad, bad idea. That position quickly lost more than 1/2 of it’s value [...]
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This weekend Megan, Ryder and I headed downtown to support the Kellogg team in the MBA Olympics. Unfortunately we did not do so well
The trip was great fun and it was a great time to get out and spend some none academic time with my fellow Kellogg students, as well as those from [...]
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Sometimes our political process makes me want to simply vomit. Well, that may be a little strong.
However… It truly saddens me that our political process has ‘politicized’ this economic issue so much. Rather than working closely with economists and others in the space that truly understand the situation; our leadership decided it was time to [...]
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| Russell 2000 Inde | 505.03 | ||
| S&P 500 | 927.45 | ||
| S&p 100 Index | 440.83 | ||
| DJIA | 8952.89 | ||
| NASDAQ | 1628.03 | ||
| Cboe Volatility I | 39.08 |