Blended Living

SoC #16

May 7th, 2009

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rain rain go away!
should have taken that walk when the sun came out earlier
4x is humming along, albeit at a muted amount
still best to work out the kinks with smaller amounts
and I’m still learning things about this craft after having made so many trades in the last decade
or should I say I am learning things about me?
that good cup of coffee today is keeping me up now
rolling along like its was early evening right now
good thing (or maybe bad) that the 4x markets don’t sleep at all
more time to practice, and its good to do while I’m not at my best
to sort of stress test myself and my trading skills
some days I would hesitate to call these skills
but I’ve proven to myself that they are skills
just that I’m sometimes not in the right frame of mind to pay attention
to the little subtle signals
and the competing voices that habitate my mind
oh that Kindle DX is tempting
just when I thought I owned everything I want
along comes a device that could be the answer to 3 needs
a platform for me to read more on (especially fiction and current stuff)
a way to ease some clutter
a prize for trading well, or perhaps hitting my fitness goals
I’m getting that feeling…
that sweet nexus of ideas, practice, and technology
the sticker price is steep
but the probably 2 year costs come out to under 2 bucks a day
and I will likely use it enough to justify that
besides if my solution seeking engine (my mind) fixates on that prize
it helps to focus me sufficiently to not do the little stupid things
that can sabotage a good trade setup- like fear and greed and impatience
just exited that trade with 2 Kindle DX days worth of profit
hitting my marks, should be time to up the ante.

Blended Living, Books 4x, kindle, Trading

SoC #7

February 5th, 2009

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its cold its warm its snowy then sunny the market is up and down
we are on a sideways ride
bad news isn’t so bad, and good news doesn’t particularly linger
the winter is taking its toll on me
I can sense the weakness as I shop online for things I don’t need
and daydream about vacations to far away hot places
with beaches like the ones in the pictures I was sent in email
with a kangaroo, yes, a kangaroo that seemed to swim out into the ocean
and I found myself envious
a first for me – to be envious of a kangaroo
which makes me think of the story about the origins of the word
when the white traveler asked the pygmie and he answered what sounded like ‘kang a roo’
which meant ‘I don’t know’
so I’m envious of –I don’t know– what
which is neither here nor there
and this stream of thought seems to be mired somewhere between winnie the pooh and Dr Seuss
yet I haven’t had a drink today
or maybe that is the problem or the solution…
just rearranged my 4x trading charts layouts
and I like it but the first trade is agin’ me
as I lose 8 cents in my pursuit to reinvent the trader in me
and am glad 4x allows for microtrades
as 8 cents is cheap to pay for the lesson I just (re)learned about trading ranges, simple moving averages, and the fractal nature of time and prices
which makes me think just like a kid on a swing
its easy to see the turns closer to their apexes as well as take a non-blurry photo of them being so into their present moment
just that the pendulum of trading has so many participants
and I only have a handful of kids I’d photograph
and usually just one at a time
yet the market reveals itself in moments just like a girl you are enamored with and you just know exactly what to do next.