tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-312427432009-05-04T13:22:04.211-04:00Daily Trade ActivityA brief description of my stock trading activity.Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.comBlogger587125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-40577830555200129952009-02-03T10:11:00.003-05:002009-02-04T20:40:55.220-05:00My father passed awayAnd I am not daytrading. If I do again it will be with Bright Trading. At this point I am going to take off in his old truck with a cap cover, and visit a bunch of friends on the east coast then head to hang with my buddy and his family in Tuscon. I think the following is true for me to be trading:1. I need to be able to lose all the money I am trading with and not have it be a problem.2. In Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-60646559277347101462008-11-10T21:51:00.001-05:002008-11-10T21:51:54.556-05:00Awesome story:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aMQJV3iJ5M8c&refer=home  Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-26182382467516672642008-10-27T10:28:00.000-04:002008-10-27T09:29:01.475-04:00Awesome storyof plain old lying thievery:   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=aIL9gsK5wG40Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-60818366434504163682008-10-21T17:15:00.001-04:002008-10-21T17:15:25.468-04:00for this discussion http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=142074http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?threadid=142074   I hate posting at elite trader so here is my post.   One thing I am recovering from is the idea that if something doesn't move in your favor, that therefore it will move forever against you. The reality of the market to me is more about a lot of overlap, as anyone knows from watching something that "stopped" you at the worst Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-77926795938646229672008-10-19T11:12:00.001-04:002008-10-19T11:12:33.231-04:00Really Stupid Investors:http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&ID=23618Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-83492000081519015622008-10-16T11:19:00.001-04:002008-10-16T11:19:45.279-04:00Lol:Good sub-prime primer:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9gChrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-81548351320502486462008-10-16T09:59:00.001-04:002008-10-16T09:59:54.469-04:00Marx:http://www.bbva.ch/market/info/web/news/story/general/show;jsessionid=ECEF5E1CFB9573ECAE6AB7C443CE9EA0?style=popup&id=1224165392nLG117143Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-77857807619828001432008-10-15T13:18:00.001-04:002008-10-15T13:18:21.609-04:00Steenbarger blog:I forgot how good it is. It seems over time I come to appreciate more the way he looks only at "what is happening now" type of data and indicators, a lot of which he creates himself it seems.   http://www.traderfeed.blogspot.com/Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-78908089025456385872008-10-14T14:21:00.001-04:002008-10-14T14:21:52.392-04:00Interesting article about Taleb Black Swan'ershttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=aDVgqxiT9RSg  Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-49774755616261069592008-10-14T10:01:00.001-04:002008-10-14T10:01:34.154-04:00Got Shorts?http://tradermike.net/2007/03/list_of_inverse_short_bear_etfs_/Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-116876732277838842008-10-13T13:03:00.001-04:002008-10-13T13:03:51.259-04:00Biggest one day percentage gain in DOW:The largest one-day percentage gain in the index, 15.34%, happened on March 15, 1933, in the depths of the 1930s bear market.Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-45394618094641714962008-10-12T11:07:00.001-04:002008-10-12T11:07:58.321-04:00Some comparisons:http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/10/how_bad_will_th.htmlChrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-65172120670790208302008-10-09T22:35:00.001-04:002008-10-09T22:35:22.879-04:00More history:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27072080?pg=9#Biz_BearMarketsChrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-62784091615569369952008-10-09T20:45:00.001-04:002008-10-09T20:45:44.842-04:00More statistics:On the selling recently including today:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081010/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown_190Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-18340053371959139432008-10-08T09:22:00.001-04:002008-10-08T09:22:41.620-04:00Fat Tails:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1078625Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-13814654168274162252008-10-07T19:19:00.001-04:002008-10-07T19:19:33.621-04:00Some more statistics:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=home&sid=aBuMcg50xGVgChrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-56753468161771066482008-10-07T15:41:00.001-04:002008-10-07T15:41:48.684-04:00Bollinger Bands on SPY:I look at a daily Bollinger Band on SPY as an extreme-o-meter. Check it out, most extreme deviation that I have going back to 1993:Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-81601579502241830572008-10-07T14:11:00.001-04:002008-10-07T14:11:55.292-04:00My trading: I programmed a script in NinjaTrader that I am using now as one big complicated indicator. Just as at times an indicator won't work due to the overall trading circumstances, so it is with this strategy coded in NinjaTrader in C#. So far by being discretionary in stock selection and market bias (based on direction and conditions) I have been beating the performance of the strategy if left Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-21208014303371197062008-10-07T11:58:00.001-04:002008-10-07T11:58:10.535-04:00Abu Dhabi:Is going to build an AMD plant in upstate NY, about 45 minutes from where I live.   The Abu Dhabi government will pay $700 million for a stake in a new entity that will own two plants in Germany and build another in New York, AMD said yesterday. The new company also will get as much as $6 billion from Abu Dhabi to expand the factories and $1.4 billion in operating capital. Abu Dhabi also Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-56350992997175235602008-10-07T09:24:00.001-04:002008-10-07T09:24:38.331-04:00Moral Hazard:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard  Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-11405753749071039502008-10-07T09:18:00.001-04:002008-10-07T09:18:39.308-04:00Mexico:http://www.forexyard.com/reuters/popup_reuters.php?action=2008-10-07T131652Z_01_N07448147_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-MEXICO-UPDATE-1  Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-33946601021917423072008-10-06T14:51:00.001-04:002008-10-06T14:51:21.432-04:00Perspective:On the original Black Monday in October 1987, the Dow lost 508 points in one day, or nearly 23% of its value. Today, a percent decline of this magnitude would be about 2,518 points.   http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/perspective-dows-record-point-decline/story.aspx?guid={6C15A4EB-2595-4294-8643-B052D17B3E72}&dist=msr_1  Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-60168087392756211002008-10-06T13:48:00.001-04:002008-10-06T13:48:20.447-04:00Here is one nation that might bite the dust soon:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/oct/06/iceland.creditcrunch   This house of cards might be a preview....    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2008/10/07/2003425233  Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-17063908691584530362008-10-05T10:32:00.001-04:002008-10-05T10:32:11.077-04:00Some tax breaks in bailout bill:http://www.poststar.com/articles/2008/10/03/news/latest/doc48e65afbb672e001331818.txt   Scroll towards the bottom. My favorite is:   —Exempting wooden practice arrows used by children from an excise tax of 39 cents per arrow.  Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31242743.post-57689580522150381982008-10-02T11:00:00.001-04:002008-10-02T11:00:18.302-04:00I wish I was more learned:I heard some radical on WFMU.org talking about how some of the recent U.S. goverment actions were more similar to Mussolini fascism and not socialism.   http://www.publiceye.org/fascist/corporatism.html   State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may Chrisnyorknoreply@blogger.com0