2009 yearly numbers

My 2009 yearly Numbers:
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wins: 366 losses : 208
Avg Win: 52.97
Avg loss: -78.30
Gross Trading: +3,100.00
Commissions: -3,768.99
Net Trading: -668.99
Biggest Win: 825.00
Biggest Lost: -835.00
Data Fees: -1740.55
Interest: 0
Account Net: -2,029.45
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All I can say is Sad, very Sad. This is the first year I made money without including interest doing over night or day trading. Above are just those results. I was doing okay until the last two days of November and all of December. I lost about $3,000 during that period. If I stopped before Thanksgiving, I would have been a head for the year even with the crap that happened with my daughter. Instead, I did not even cover my account fees.
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Trading so far is a little better this year .
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I also posted all my monthly numbers too but used the publish dates of when they should have been published instead of waiting until now.

2008 Yearly Numbers

My 2009 numbers:
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Wins: 725 Losses: 451
Avg Win: 37.70 Avg Loss: -46.59
Gross Trading: 6,322.32
Commissions: -5778
Net Trading: 544.07
Biggest Win: 626.00 Biggest Loss: -546.00
Data Fees: -1,297
Interest: 1,734
Account Net: 981.21

The bottom line of above is I made my broker happy. I was trying to figure out what all my monthly and yearly numbers mean to me. I know when I started this 3 years ago I only shorted a stock of two in my whole trading life. I had never traded currencies before and it had been over 20 years since I had traded stock indexes.
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When in 2006 I decided to give this a try because my investing results sucked. I thought the way to make money was day trading. That year, my trading was producing swings of up to +/-7% in my account daily. After seeing how that could kill an account, my goal was lower those swings by a great deal. I did. In 2007, those swings became about +/-1.5% but I did not stop there. In 2009, the swings now are under 1% and most days under 0.2%. Now I have the other problem. I have gone from being way too wild to way too conservative and I need to correct that.
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I feel I have learned a lot about trading over those 3 years. How to try to go against the idiots. How the open and close are different from the rest of the day. How certain stock groups of stocks trade. How to short stocks. How it is better to buy strength and short weakness.
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I do not understand why I have become such a chicken to take the necessary risks to be successful. I see it in other parts of my life too. For the first time in my life, I am not struggling with money other than all that has been lost in 401ks and IRAs yet it is even harder for me to take chances. I can only guess it is seeing so many friends losing life savings in stocks or real estate or careers or just the feeling that the bull market in so many things is over and life is going to be a lot harder than it has been.
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I feel I have a good eye for charts. I need to use the "Blink" method more often. I got to teach my brain to trust my eye and my gut and start flying this year.

2007 Yearly Review 1/21/2008

My yearly numbers:
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Wins: 343 Losses: 226
Avg Win: 65.82 Avg Loss: -89.19
Gross Trading: 2,420.50
Commissions: -4,116.69
Net Trading: -1696.19
Biggest Win: 440.00 Biggest Loss: -1,509.00
Data Fees: -419.45
Interest: 2,984.66
Account Net: 869.22
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What a year. I had no large wins at all during the entire year. I did have a group of large losses. So I did not let my winners run but I did cut off my losers relatively well.
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I guess I do not know how to look at the numbers in any helpful way. My avg losers where bigger than my avg winners 7 out of 12 months. My biggest losers where bigger than my biggest winners 7 out of 12 months. My total wins where bigger than my total losers 10 out of 12 months.
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The thing that has my biggest concerns is I was doing ok trading before I went full time. After I did go full time, I lost 5 out of 6 months. Not good.
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I will post more thoughts if I have them.