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Account balance: $73,630 Ive been active in my account but not on the forums. frustration is setting in. I got clobbered on DLR and then clobbered on CSCO a week or two later, they represent about 25% of my account combined.. I have been pretty active. I added KMI at a great price...

Was just going through some performance tabs and noticed October was the month I passed 100% cum perf since starting this in less than 3 years. I am very please with this result and the equity curve is actually pretty smooth. Hopefully the next 3 years can be the same. attached is screen...

Account balance: $71,355 DLR had a little relief rally into the end of the day

Thanks for commenting! the comments are few and far between on here. Also thanks for talking about my turnover, that's something I've been very aware of lately and starting to think it's getting a little too high for what I am trying to accomplish - which is the main point of me saying I feel a...

bad earnings season for me. First CAT and IBM and now today the absolute disaster DLR...down about $1500 today just on DLR.

you say counting dividends doesn't say much, and then you show this....:confused: :confused: :confused: You do realize the DOW, adjusted for dividends, since 1884, would sit at 652,000 today? That's right I didn't do a typo, had you reinvested dividends in the DOW since 1884 starting at...

I dont know either you nor failed_trader but the only reason im responding is because of your comment "failed_mathematician". You obviously failed statistics. If you wouldn't have failed you'd know that cherry picking dates when there are more dates in the pool does not give you an average...

RDS.B appears to be breaking out from a multi year consolidation. The last 14 trading days has sent the stock straight up. The 10 year chart looks like a perfect very long cup and handle. I am long already @66 and looking for this thing to start making new highs on the daily. My target is...

sold NSC for 88.20. this is 33% gain on this one.

sold KMB for 107.49. That's two nice KMB trades now this year. Made about 23% total in 2 trades over the span of about 3 months combined.

I just read through my journal and found that I have changed my underlying strategy 3 times. One could argue I should have started another journal but I think adapting is obviously important. When I originally started this journal I would sell monthly calls swing trading them. My thesis...

you do know that several tickers, aapl goog pcln and 1 other I think now do options for 10 shares as opposed to 100, right? on my brokerage the symbol is listed as "aapl7" or "goog7" or "pcln7" not sure why the number 7 was chosen.. or did you mean expensive as in mispriced?

account value: $71,326 no new deposits Somehow things have been humming right along. CAT and IBM continue to be a huge disappoint and a big drag on the portfolio. Combined they represent about 20-25% of my portfolio. They both had disappointed earnings and dropped about 7% each. If I...

My ARCP trades have been working out near flawlessly. I am now up another 3.5% on the stock for a total of 12% in just under 2 weeks on this stock. I am going to hold this time a little longer term than I did last time. I think this stock is worth at least 15.5-16 and plan to hold to at least...

just sold to open 2 jan 18 2014 AFL puts 65 strike @2.05 credit. I decided to do this because I sold AFL recently at 65.50 and am still actually kind of bullish on the stock. Here is kind of a win win situation in my mind because worst case scenario I get to buy AFL in January for $63 and I...

back in to ARCP @13.10 I also got back into CSCO yesterday at like 22.65. bought to close my KO 37 dec put. I was going to hold this til close but I was already up about 80% on it and holding for another 2 months to get the last extra 20% didn't seem worth it to me.

Sold ARCP @13.47 was planning on longer holding but got 8.3% in 4 days ill take it. I also bought to close 2 KO 40 strike Nov puts @1.45 for a 27% gain. I Originally intended to hold this until expiration but I have high doubts of KO closing over 40 by Nov. I still have a KO 37 strike Dec...

i'm out of OXY at 97.50. I see serious resistance for OXY at the $100 level. this is good for a 19% gain i'm out of AFL at 65.60. I don't really see any resistance for AFL which is why I'm out of it. No way for me to analyze the stock on a technical basis, and on a fundamental basis I feel...

first off, im not being a dick. I know very very few people that buy options that expire in 1-2 days and not hold it til expiration. secondly, this isnt hindsight analysis, there was never forward looking analysis. OP bought a lottery ticket, made out nicely 20-1 and all of you are coming on...

I came here to congratulate you on your 7 grand only to see you sold way too early, why would you not hold til exp?