Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Bittersweet

 Mismanaged exit by getting out without some kind of trailing. 
+17 pips


5 comments:

Gump said...

Did you enter the CNBC trading contest? And why or why not?

FX said...

No. I don't know about it. Did you and how is it going so far?

Gump said...

It finished in December of last year. I was 474th out of a reported 250,000 players.
I think it was the place to be for new traders especially as top players were meeting at a forum after the close to go over strategies. It really took my trading up a level. The winner this year was a real estate appraiser. Last contest a waitress won the grand prize.

FX said...

You were in top 20% of top 1%, nice.

Gump said...

Pondering what was more shocking, the number of bad players below me or the number of good traders above. I couldn't believe I was getting out timed in the market. See this was the first contest in which you could day trade and I thought, "I got 'em now." It made me work at a whole new level to step up my market timing.