Recent content by HuggieBear

my penson 1099 through MB Trading is a disaster...i just gave up trying to reconcile it. I have so many thousands of trades, this is just a nightmare. Trying to figure out where the discrepencies are is almost impossible. I spot check all my short equities trades and every single one is...

Made a mistake in my final P/L calculations -- I finish the year up 38%, which is indeed a new high for the year (by about 2%), but not as robust as I had indicated above. HB

HuggieBear signs off.... Performance for Week 40(ish): Weekly % Return = +8.4% (actually covers about 4 weeks) 2011 P/L = +48.92% Current DD = -0.0% MDD = -16.3% THIS WILL BE MY LAST POST. Per my earlier journal entry, I am giving up active trading to focus on a new job...

One makes money in the market by: a) doing what your not supposed to b) not doing what you most want to do c) having a high tolerance for pain There's your edge...

Thanks! I wondered where you had gone off too! Hope you are well....

the chart won't tell you what it was really like when the flash crash happened.... first of all, i put in orders that just didn't get filled...when shit gets crazy, execution goes bonkers. second of all, there was at one point, i believe, no bids. And then after that the bid/ask...

do you typically always get account statements, whether you made a trade or not? or only when you place trades?

feng- what broker do you use? do you have access to a web account? go into your account and check your trade history. if the trade is not there, then it never happened. Sometimes, funny things happen in NT. Connectivity with your broker may have been lost, or some such situation...

good god, what are you talking about? NinjaTrader is not the authority of record for your trades. I have seen all manner of wackiness occur with NinjaTrader, just this week it showed me up several percent on a long ES trade, when i noticed on marketwatch the market had plummeted. Long story...

A Blind Squirrel, and all that.... Performance for Week 34: Weekly % Return = +9.0% 2011 P/L = +33.5% Current DD = -2.3% MDD = -16.3% Moved about half of my portfolio into a long-term, diversified and passive portfolio and was lucky enough to benefit from buying near the...

Thanks GMST, very much appreciate the sentiment. Glad you enjoyed the journal -- I realize it could have been much better (with more info), but it was improving over time. Most importantly, it was helpful for me. I am going to continue to update it from time to time, mostly for my own...

While doing this for the last few years, i've been doing so while working fulltime and with a one-year old and two-year old. Since the kids were born, it is hard to overstate the stress associated with this endeavour. I have literally lost 10's of thousands of dollars on discretionary...

The End of the Line... Performance for Week 33: Weekly % Return = +1.33% 2011 P/L = +19.7% Current DD = -10.3% MDD = -16.3% Due to some upcoming life changes that will devour all of my free time, HuggieBear's market domination will come to an end for the near term. I simply...

A near tragedy of immense proportions... Performance for Week 32: Weekly % Return = +5.56% 2011 P/L = +17.7% Current DD = -11.5% MDD = -16.3% After an extremely difficult and costly week last week, things took a major turn for the worse this week. Much like a climber tumbling...

Heech- Indeed, i learned a valuable lesson. Actually, two different lessons. I won't soon forget them....i lost 16%, but its likely that will be valuable tuition paid, because had the market dropped 10% last week, it would have been a true calamity. Better to learn these lessons now at...