This weeks results 1/16/2012-1/20/2012

Crude Futures: +25.40
Gold Futures: none
Russell Futures: none
Dow Futures: none
Stocks: -1.08
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net: ++24.32
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two trades - boring week. A lot of things kept me from watching a lot.

This weeks results 1/9/2012-01/13/2012

crude futures: -10.66
Russell futures: none
Gold futures: none
Dow Futures: none
Stocks: +30
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net: +19.34
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Only 3 trades this week. Boring.

this weeks Results 01/03/2012-01/06/2012

Dow Futures: -338.88
Russell Futures: -40.02
Crude Futures: +24.66
Gold Futures: none
Stocks: -39.04
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net -357.28
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My level of frustration with missing a lot of good trades over the last few week including having internet problems for most of the week got the best of me. The jobs number on Friday - I waited for the first pullback to buy. You should wait for a 50% retracement of the bar spike. I did but waited ofr the market to start going up before entering. That was stupid. I double my stupidity by adding to the position just as it looked to set a new high for the move. I top ticked it and it rolled quickly after that. A course later I entered a great stock trade only to get out too quickly and not let the trade run. The stock trade would have cleared the earlier loss plus make up for the losses I had earlier in December. I was an idiot allowing one trade to effect the next so much.
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Back to the drawing board. Happy New Year.

This Weeks Results 12/27/2011-12/30/2011

Stocks: +9.09
Dow Futures: +67.24
Crude Futures: none
Russell Futures: none
Gold Futures: none
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net: +76.33
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small gain on a couple of trades. Focused on Dow when the good action was on Crude. Story of my year. Went thru my yearly stats and made a small amount of money. If you took out the swing trades, the dividend received, and my big oops trade - I would have been strongly in the red. On the other hand, I lost a ton in June and some how got out of that hole.
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As I stated before, 2011 was on insane year for family matters for me. In fact the last 30 months have been. I am looking forward to having that monkey off my back and maybe doing well for myself seeing all I have to worry about is myself.
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Oh yes - happy new year to all of you who take the time to read me.

This weeks results 12/19/2011-12/23/2011

Dow Futures: +151.12
Crude Futures: +79.52
Stocks: +8.02
Russell Futures: none
Gold Futures: none
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net: +238.66
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The results are okay. Barely traded at all this week and had two big misses.

This weeks results 12/12/2011-12/16/2011

Dow Futures: - 18.04
Crude Futures: - 226.70
Russell Futures: none
Gold Futures: none
Stocks: none
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net: -242.70
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There has no would ha should ha could ha trades this week. I did miss a target in a fast market by one tick only to have my trailing stop get hit and my profit being less than 1/2 of the target. The last two weeks should have been good for me. This week just sucked. My results have sucked for about 5 weeks now. I need to do good when the market treats me good and I need to behave when it doesn't.
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I am looking forward to getting this year over with.

This weeks results - 12/5/2011-12/9/2011

Dow futures: +61.12
crude futures: +99.32
Russell futures: none
gold futures: none
Stocks: -169.58
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net: -9.14
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This was one of the would could should weeks that make me scream. I was in a trade with MCD and I scratched it for break even because the way it was trading was new to me. It then ran over a buck seconds later. I had an buy stop in GMCR for like 20 minutes and then pull it. Three minute later is run like crazy. I placed an order trying to hit the ask and the stock ran never filling my order. And last I had a winning in crude and I debated to place a stop at one price or 3 ticks lower. A course i got hit but the other stop would not have. All in all that cost me a lot of money.
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On the other hands, I just missed getting filled by one cent on a buy stop where the stock died 50 cents soon after.
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You win some and lose some but i would have preferred all of the above trades getting filled or placed correctly. I would have had a happy week.