Trading news

September 10, 2008

September 7, 2008

August 30, 2008

  • Last week trading activity

    Let's summarize my trading activity last week:
    08/22/2008 15:42:03 Sold Short … PHM @ 13.68
    08/26/2008 15:59:46 Bought … OIL @ 69.25
    08/27/2008 16:08:03 Bought … VIXJX @ 2.5

    As you can see, I had a chance to get out with some profit within a few days of getting into positions, but I chose not to. (…)

August 22, 2008

  • The Great OIL Trade Escape

    Call it lucky, call it smart, but my OIL trade did pay off. To be completely fair, it caused me a few worrisome days and some strenuous moments with my husband and kids. (…)

August 18, 2008

  • Rough trading times.

    Ok, I must admit the last week-and-a-half was awful.
    First, both boys got a virus and even though they recovered quickly, I managed to catch it as well. (…)

August 8, 2008

August 5, 2008

  • Getting fed up with Fed.

    When Ben Bernanke assumed his new position as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, finally replacing everlasting Alan Greenspan, I thought he would focus on economics instead of politics. (…)

August 4, 2008

  • GM got "Hummered"

    With the US economy slowing, even largest corporations get affected. An easy, but overlooked by me target was GM - General Motors Corp. (…)

August 1, 2008

  • Is Wachovia out of whack?

    As if it was not enough for us to pull money out of Wachovia, I also shorted its stock @ $17.05. (…)

July 28, 2008

July 18, 2008

June 20, 2008

June 18, 2008

  • Trading & Cooking or Cooking & Trading?

    It is hard to say which one comes first. As a trader, I don't have much time to cook breakfast, but as a Mom, I can't say NO when kids ask me to make pancakes. (…)

June 17, 2008

June 14, 2008

  • The market is closed today.

    The roofers are gone, kids are taking after-lunch nap and it is unusually quite. Even the smell of roofing tar doesn't bother me anymore. 5 days in a row, our home was rolling and rocking. (…)

June 12, 2008

  • Trading nightmares.

    I woke up in the morning from a dream that stock market closed up 296 points. Of course my first reaction was to run to the computer, as market had to open in a few minutes. (…)

May 30, 2008