I haven’t made any notable trades in the last week or so, which is getting annoying since I would like to make some money in February! I’m just not seeing a lot of opportunities right now. Take today, where most breakouts I saw ended up failing really quickly. But, it’s best to wait these times out, than to force a trade.
I’m trying out Twitter and have added their badge over on the sidebar of the blog’s front page. It’s basically like a microblog where you just log what you are doing/thinking/feeling at the moment. You can update it from IM, or mobile phone, as well as their web page. It’s got all the standard “social” friend-adding features that every site has nowadays. Seems similar to these tumblogs that are starting to crop up everywhere , but with the “status” focus. Whatever. If Twitter becomes a habit, I’ll be mentioning what stocks I am stalking during trading hours, and who knows what else. I think they have feeds etc. if your inner stalker wants to subscribe to my status.
I haven’t made an article in a couple weeks, and need to do that… I’ve been spending my free time learning about IB’s TWS API, since I am doing a StockTickr add-on for TWS, and have also been doing some custom TWS programming for a fellow blogger. So, that’s been eating up some time.
I have a swing-trading type of scan that is starting to look promising enough to post to movethemarkets. I haven’t made any trades off it yet, but the ones I’m watching would have made February a very nice month. We’ll see if it holds up to more time. The idea would be to trade these ideas via Options (which, I realize, I also need to start posting about! always more things for me to do!).
