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This market never goes down!!! WTF?!! Every time I short, all the freakin dip buyers come in and rip it up. So, then I went long and got out. Then toward end of day I figure it's too high. Mistakes. Put on a small short position then it rips up! It's never going down! Stupid me to think the Fed...

I know the source of all of my errors! Short bias!! Stupid! Shorting in one of the strongest markets. I short directly or indirectly by shorting NQ, YM, and buying TVIX. As soon as I started long things turned around. not sure why I'm fighting this strong market... Feel like a loser. Not only...

Well, i'm not giving up on trading. I'm actually trading the various choices I have. A well paying job with guaranteed income vs a maybe shot at full-time trading with unknown outcome. I'm taking the weighted average of both choices. By doing the full-time job, I'm actually INCREASING my chance...

I'm still fielding calls from recruiters. Kind of disappointed today that I failed to follow my rules. I did a few good trades and again one bad one. But this time the bad trade wasn't horrendously bad. Just bad. Still disappointed. Well, probably means I should get that job. I shouldn't be...

Thanks for all of your feedback! Since I have an entire year to experiment with this, then why not use 1 month in January to see how it goes. I'm in the early stages of interviewing several companies. After a few rounds of phone and onsite interviews, paperwork, background check, and other usual...

So what is your suggestion? It's unclear. Go back to a normal 9 to 5 Corporate job or do trading with consulting on the side? Obviously the ultimate is up to me. I'm not sure the context of your head is messing with you. And you quote the trading mindset option. This seems to imply that trading...

ironchef - Thank you for your best wishes. I totally agreed with your idea of not needing trading profits to put food on the table! I need to provide some context. By luck or preplanning, apparently I have prepaid my mortgages all this time so I'm good for an entire year! That means I don't...

Here's the update: Jobwise: I've been doing some side consulting. And hopefully soon back to a Corporate job. In October til now, I didn't even really looked. I was so sick and tired of Corporate America that I didn't even apply or reply to many recruiters call. I guess I was still recovering...

It was luck that it hit $43. I should have loaded up more. But it was a fun ride.

The best stock trade of the year for me! Put in a limit order of $43 and it got hit during the halt! then flip it out at $80. :)

Hey ETers, WHAT SHOULD I DO?! TVIX is by FAR my WORST trades! I've done well with Bitcoin and other futures trading. But I'm still holding this stinkin' bag of poop called TVIX. The only hope I get of a turnaround is reading stupid Zerohedge that has these fantasy scenarios of when volatility...

I do have an exit plan. I trade you know. I'm not going to see it ride up then down like a lot of people I know who went through the dotcom boom and bust. Investors tend to hold forever. I'm a trader. But I'm NOT daytrading BTC. At least not yet. But this allocation is for longer term hold. I...

I think there's some clause about FMV(fair market value). If the prevailing price is 30% higher than what you are selling to your friend, then I highly doubt they will let you go through with the transaction. I'll wait it out to see how the macro picture evolves. It seems there's some kind of...

$9700! I wished i bought more! Oh well. Just ride with what I got so far... I'm sure it will continue to go higher and I wished I bought more at these "high" prices... haha

I bought some on the way up($5300, $6K, $7K, $8K). Wished I had bought more. Now I'm hesitant to buy more even though I'm sure it will go to $10K soon.. Oh well. But they were all small buys. Less than 10% of my total portfolio allocation.

Thanks guys for the perspective! I knew it was too good to be true! I'm just trying to figure out in what scenario does it even make sense. I think it only makes sense if RE market goes down. Who knows if and when that will happen. To be clear, it's quite a misnomer and outright disingenuous...

Today I got something interesting in the mail. Unison Homeowner Program seems too good to be true. I'm trying to think through and work through the math. You can read it here: https://www.unison.com/homeowner-7/ Here's the review for the program here...

I bought some around $5300. Then some more at $6K+, $7K, and $8K. Obviously not in huge quantity. It's quite expensive. But at least to get exposure to this asset class. I don't think this is the top. Far from it. Institutions are just beginning to look into Bitcoin. And too many FOMO types...

I have made 8x and 15x on my other option trades in the past. I just don't post everything. I'm not doing any investment letter.

I've been here on ET long enough to understand where the attitudes come from. I approach trading from an experimental and "oh, that's interesting" perspective. Don't misunderstand me. It's not that I don't like your comments per se. It's just I like an environment to have open discussions and...