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New week. Didn't trade last week which is a shame as it had decent volatility, but too many outside screen factors. We'll see what this week brings, have no strong conviction.

There's a problem for a group of people whom when given $20M will handle it in a way that soon reverts them to poverty. That group of people might well be better off not winning $20M in the first place. As for otherwise, it really depends on the country. The US is a shitty place to be poor in...

Nope, NQ down trend continues. Interestingly Chinese markets did not so much. Waiting for US open

Sooo. NQ still in quite narrow range. If there's a break out I will join it (I would still bet on up side), but in relaxation mode until then. Need to make algo that is competitive in this ranging market but haven't had time (GF eliminating my time).

Quit at NAV 19712, quite a Padutrader entry (and probably exit). Should keep track of losses due to discretionary entries vs algo from now on. I think magical position sizing thinking has something to do with it. Edit: Actually better, promise to never issue fully discretionary entries again...

Buy NAS100USD x 9 @ 7320 stop 7307 Last fill since this is point of pain and my hypothesis of floor would prove not so useful. Quitting if it gets worse than this.

Buy NAS100USD x 9 @ 7340 stop 7307 Keeping this one to end of day, apparently better price soon after my entry. -.-

Buy NAS100USD x 9 @ 7358 stop 7307 More classic non-algo bet for 400 EUR. Given how much pessimism I'm now seeing I'm guessing we might have hit bottom for mid term (also; bounce off floor). Intend to keep into June if I'm not shaken out of it. Might add more next week. Edit: Oh yeah, should...

Nope stopped. MFE 50, loss 70. Good night.

2 out of 3 sub-trades stopped out, one remaining. I am basically going with the expectation of an up day so I leave algo on unless last trade stops out. Gonna be -60 if it does.

Started long algo HK33HKD

Interesting, could be an up day (rubber band pulled tight) but not going to make bets without confirmation. Of course, I've been getting trounced by lack of easy trends in NQ all week. Will see if this changes so I can end this week in the positive. NAV 20451 (If it doesn't go up, then I bet it...

Flat day for me. To be fair, minimal screen time spent, but I should code price alerts for algo app so I can be more reactive. Nice move in crude oil today, should be coding a scanner for use inside the algo app so I can detect trends in and trade more than currently hardcoded list of...

-20 on another short. Entering into trend still isn't working in these conditions, need to enter before it and take profit aggressively. Quitting for today as I don't have an algo for it, though.

NQ has been trending down during night and Euro session but I exited my short as seen above for other reasons. Now waiting for US data, might enter on that or otherwise session start. No particular bias here. Currently very choppy. Edit: No particular reaction to unsurprising data, waiting...

Nifty looks nice, too bad it's in a very difficult timezone for me.

-15 on NQ short, quit manually as I wasn't happy with timing (entry on potentially strong down trend, then just pause). On a side note, spread sucks this time of day which leads to further complications. Edit: I simply wasn't focused enough. Should've checked other indices, e.g. ASX was flat at...

Just a nice time to post this classic.

This is the most important part of article: 0.5% tax rate for stock trades, a 0.1% rate for bond trades, and 0.005% for derivatives transactions. I'm going to avoid reacting in a knee jerk self-serving way and instead say that while I do get what he's trying to accomplish, 0.5% is hilariously...

Closed +100. MFE +300, went out for a quick walk and 10 min later half of my scaled sub-positions had been knocked. Arghh.