Recent content by phlip

I have worked in tech many years as a software / hardware developer on embedded systems, and I started trading my own money 2 years ago. I trade in the morning (I'm in Seattle also) It's great as you have the best part of the trading day from 6:30 - 8:00. At first things were pretty rough, but I...

What a day - I got KILLED early on in AAPL, no follow thru on early trends, at one point I was down 18K. Hung in there... Hung in there... By 2 market time I've made about half of it back down 9K. Thank you AAPL, thank you RIMM - strong up trend in the last hour saved my butt...

I'm a regular day trader of AAPL - it's one of my favorites. I have mostly been shorting it lately - I'm expecting an intermediate bounce soon - perhaps the last part of todays session is the start of that. I have no idea how high it will go - 140? 150? After that it could trend back down.

Got WAY turned around early in the session - down about 14k Recovered to finish +3227 on 716000 shares, appx 120 trades. Mostly shorting AAPL, RIMM - from the looks of the charts I should have done MUCH better. Really an emotional roller coaster day - came back to positive several time...

Terrible day for me - short AAPL, and it popped big on open before finally turning neg. -12,117 Summary Jan week 1: -8,700 week 2 +11,000 week 3 +38,200 week 4 +5,800 week 5 +2,800 Jan total +49,100 Feb week 1 +11,100 (feb 1) Feb 4...

In jan. I lost money 8 out of 22 trading days, however I was quite profitable for the month. I have had months where I lost money only one or two days, but never a perfect month. I lost money my first year - since a major turnaround in trading style about a year ago, I have made money...

From our condo in Hawaii - actually it wasn't the greatest experience, I had to get up at 4:00 AM, and the during the 2 week period my performance was awful. I'm of the opinion that the correct trading mentality if a fragile thing, and changing the environment can throw things off. For...