What fixing bug of Windows XP has to do with trading?
A lot! It was driving me totally and utterly insane for quite a while, when after yet another Automatic Update from Microsoft all in a sudden any customizations I made to Windows layout were not there after reboot. Taskbar gone, menus reordered, windows sizes and positions set to some ridiculous forms and shapes.
Finally, after long, really long google search and combining multiple recommendations I found solution which worked (fingers crossed)
For tech savvy solution is below (registry access is needed, save before you tweak it - one wrong move and your system might become non-operational)
Good luck...
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"NoSaveSettings"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
"SystemTray"="SysTray.Exe"
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU]
[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:00001f40
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam]
"BagMRU Size"=dword:00001f40
Really boring and totally predictable intraday action.
5AM countdown advised "sell on open"
1:20Pm to 2:30PM buy countdown coupled with buy setup hinted on release of some "good news".
Pivots contained ranged trading quite efficiently - what a boring, but very profitable day.
| Time | Order ID | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/21/08 13:28:13 | ******** | BOT +16 /ESZ8 @752.25 | 5 |
| 11/21/08 11:50:45 | ******** | SOLD -6 /ESZ8 @758.50 | 5 |
| 11/21/08 11:21:49 | ******** | SOLD -10 /ESZ8 @751.50 | 5 |
| 11/21/08 10:53:39 | ******** | BOT +10 /ESZ8 @751.00 | 4 |
| 11/21/08 10:30:24 | ******** | SOLD -10 /ESZ8 @754.50 | 4 |
| 11/21/08 10:23:47 | ******** | BOT +10 /ESZ8 @756.50 | 3 |
| 11/21/08 10:22:56 | ******** | SOLD -10 /ESZ8 @760.25 | 3 |
| 11/21/08 09:59:52 | ******** | SOLD -10 /ESZ8 @759.00 | 2 |
| 11/21/08 09:58:36 | ******** | BOT +10 /ESZ8 @756.75 | 2 |
| 11/21/08 09:46:21 | ******** | SOLD -10 /ESZ8 @768.00 | 1 |
| 11/21/08 09:39:17 | ******** | BOT +10 /ESZ8 @763.75 | 1 |
| 11/21/08 02:04:07 | ******** | SOLD -10 /ESZ8 @776.00 | yest pos. |
At the time when the last TV personality whore who could not care less about our money for as long as they were getting paid for whatever they were told to say by supervising crooks (long sentence? I don't care), so at the time when hysterically giggling Erin Burnett, nonsense talking Chinese Girl, bullish all the way down curly none knows about trader Peter Costa ( list goes on and on and on) - at the time when they stopped talking nonsense like"America #1" and "Financial Capital of the Known Universe", at such time market is getting close to the bottom.
Time to stop pumping borrowed prosperity, time to stop admiring cheap Chinese goods and start building factories in US, time to kick out Nardelly who screwed up at Home Depot, got obscene amount of money for that and resurfaced at Chrysler because he knew someone, time to stop admiring Warren Buffet (GS is $50 now - great deal he's got at $115) and Brad Pitt for one on a MILLION chance they were given, time to outcast Gasparino who "believes in Big Dick Fuld.
This IS THE TIME
Time to ask ourselves: "Whose fault was that? "
Time to be honest and say: "OURS"
WE let them DO THAT.
WE let them rob us.
WE let them get paid for nothing.
WE borrowed from THEM in order for them to get richer.
WE let THEM outsource our jobs.
WE let THEM leave us with no retirement we paid for.
WE let THEM ask us in an emergency room if WE have money to pay.
WE... WE... WE...
When are we going to stop being stupid lazy politically inert self deluding nation?
When are we going to stop playing "democracy"?
When are we going to stop saying: "Everything is really bad, BUT WE live in the GREAT country"? Huh??? Compared to what? Haiti?
Oh well...time for some charts - there is some light at the end of the tunnel there, some major ETFs completing TDSetup Buy this very week - up we go next?
Transports TDsetupBuy
Small Cap - TDSetup BUY
Financials - DTSetupBuy
Energy - TDSetupBuy 3 weeks ago - holding TDST - buy
Dreaded $VIX (why pay attention after they started to trade options on VIX and totally skewed data?)
Not counting "super Spike" - it stalled at the current level - time to retreat?
DavidDT
P.S. I am biased indeed, I've got stopped from multiple bullish positions (long calls and short puts) with losses and BIDU long trade initially totaling to 20%(!!!) of my portfolio is off 25% pulling portfolio down over 7% in just one week!!! That is too big of a risk I took and steep price I paid ( Am I talking Yoda?)
Stop slamming that poor guy with honest face and clean record (that is why he was picked up to be a patsy)
Don't blame the messenger - get to the roots and weed them out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41hcO9rdN4o
Same old story time and again - nothing will ever change...
As always, picture worth a thousand words.
From starting out as 97:3 decliners:advancers day, after rejecting recent lows, ignoring INTC "gloom and doom" forecast, after hedge funds managers McCarthy style Congressional nonsense, after inability of soon to be history El Presidente Bush sound waves to bring market down more - burst of volume and finish with the ratio decliners:advancers 6:92 (2 SBUX and BEAS unchanged - why BEAS is still there?). And no sweet candy for hopeful from FED?
Just the way I like it...
will be trading around, with cost 2.06 selling at 2.60 hard to pass
(holding Dec28)
Posted by DavidDT at 11/13/2008 03:51:00 PM 1 comments Links to this post 
Was flipping through the charts today without much enthusiasm, then just to break latest "play reversal routine" decided to run quick scan from good old bull times.
Glad I did - I, most likely, will be buying that Israeli security software solutions (if memory serves me well)
(NAT) attracted my interest as well on the long side, but glad I looked at the news - has "Cramer's kiss of death" all over it - still will be keeping an eye on it.
P.S. One of the readers criticized me for posting my day trades - by the time it is in readers mailboxes a lot of things might and DO change.
So very true...I stand corrected...
Posted by DavidDT at 11/12/2008 10:10:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Well...
Since my anxiety level reached previously known mark ( "the hell with everything, sell all, get on cash, go to Morocco for 2 months...")
therefore we are at yet another bottom
and I am buying lots of QQQQ Dec28 calls @2.65
Posted by DavidDT at 11/12/2008 03:24:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
cost 1.80 sell 2.40 (33% profit 4 days)
Posted by DavidDT at 11/12/2008 10:56:00 AM 0 comments Links to this post
for day trade when QQQQ will be in 29.20 - 29.40 range in the next 20-30 minutes.
Desired fill price under $2
Posted by DavidDT at 11/12/2008 10:31:00 AM 0 comments Links to this post
long (soon?) PFE, OMCL, HOLX, SGP, MRK, BMR(have position), HUM, MOH.
INWK looks intresting long for some reason.
Short candidates: MYGN ( I think this one is ready), ISIS(?),
gold miners: RGLD, GG (off25?), KGC
Posted by DavidDT at 11/11/2008 10:13:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
The world as we knew it has ended - at least if you listen to "Financial Info-tainment Shopping networks"
Attempts to call stock market bottom raise McCarthy style reaction: "Do you belong to the organization profiteering on selling stocks higher and covering lower?"
The search for Al-Qaeda is over - everyone knows now that no terrorist could do to the country what uncontrolled greed has done.
Bulls are wiped, bears are totally indecisive now - none has an answer: "Where to?"
No hope, no perspective, no waving the flag.
Japan looks like a sweet place now.
Just one essential component is missing to effectively call the real bottom - the day when major information source will interview people building bomb shelters on their backyards.
In the world of de-leveraging some still look for good ole leverage plays
(volumes are still very low...)
If you’re a 300% bull type needing a bit more leverage …
Name | Symbol | Index | Daily Exposure Target |
Large Cap Bull 3x | BGU | Russell 1000 | 300% |
Small Cap Bull 3x | TNA | Russell 2000 | 300% |
Energy Bull 3x | ERX | Russell 1000 Energy | 300% |
Financial Bull 3x | FAS | Russell 1000 Financials | 300% |
And if you’re a 300% bear looking for inverse juice …
Name | Symbol | Index | Daily Exposure Target |
Large Cap Bear 3x | BGZ | Russell 1000 | -300% |
Small Cap Bear 3x | TZA | Russell 2000 | -300% |
Energy Bear 3x | ERY | Russell 1000 Energy | -300% |
Financial Bear 3x | FAZ | Russell 1000 Financials | -300% |
Source: Direxionshares.com
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According to CNBC China slowed down, they don't eat, don't grow, don't produce, don't ship.
Same goes for the rest of BRIC.
And forget about USA's grows prospects for the next 2 years.
It is all might well be true and Baltic Dry ship index collapsed to the levels not seeing since 2001.
The more "they" talk about "it" the more I want to do something in spite of everything being so bad.
May be I am just biased ( I am a perpetual bull, unfortunately), but somehow Coal Producers and Shipping Companies look very interesting long with clearly defined risk ( I am not sure that is this market any risk might be "clearly defined" - the best we can do is to trade small and honor stops no matter what)
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Just a thought - that is why after the close.
Have a great weekend
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 03:59:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post 
The WORST of any coal company, but somehow I have a gut feel ( or think I do) that it just might be decent replacement for cowardly dropped BTU position.
Bought 1/2 @3.20
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 03:55:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Decided to hold all new positions, including few GLD Nov71puts ( @1.80) over weekend.
See you Monday
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 03:43:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
@1.80
delta .39
IVol only 44%
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 12:18:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
.XJZKM
IV 81% ( ok)
delta .71
bidding @1.52 ( might move higher)
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 12:07:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Bought to close INTC Nov13puts @.24( avg sell price .44.5)
45% profit overnight
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 12:03:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Yesterday's miscalculated QQQQ down target when I had to leave after 2 PM, order was set for 30.17 was not reached by just 23c, well, money not made in this market better than money lost. Bummer... (should I be watching QQQQ action I would buy 10 Nov31calls @.80+ when qqqq was at 30.50 reversing to the upside - another good 60% profit missed.
BTU stop at 28.07 set due to the same reason ( business meeting) took me out of otherwise profitable trade ( today's high 30.06, so reasonable sell would have been 29.80 - on $20000 position (about 700 shares) - $1000 not made.
Due to this morning meeting missed sell point for EXM at about 11.40+ - another $1000 not made.
Why am I talking "coulda-shoulda- woulda" when it makes no difference?
Just to remind myself, that is this difficult market with sudden changes, positions MUST be monitored constantly and I broke the rule by "setting it and forgetting it" - IDEAS were good, execution smells badly
Being right on the market does not automatically makes you money...
Oh, well, I am back home - may be will spot something to trade - thou doubt it - not willing to hold anything over weekend ( since my downside target for QQQQ around 29.4+ was not reached - at the point where it is now - I don't know what direction it will go...
blue dotted line is CMF14 ( Chaikin Money Flow ) centerline - looks like more distribution to me.
solid blue - is CMF
on hourly yellow line - my expected down target yesterday.
on weekly yellow - important zone of support
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 11:52:00 AM 0 comments Links to this post
Unfortunately, have to leave the house for few hours ( still have not mastered PALM based ThinkOrSwim trading platform, which IS cool, but not for my eyes)
Setting up DAY conditional order to buy 1/2 of intended position in QQQQ Nov31 calls when QQQQ last <= 29.82
Stopped out of BTU position at28.07 yesterday (loss 28c = 1%)
Holding EXM (cost 10.90)
Hope to be back by noon
Good luck.
P.S. If anyone using software with built in DeMark studies, I would appreciate such person posting his/her take intraday at real time chat
http://www.tangler.com/forum/trading-to-win
Posted by DavidDT at 11/07/2008 08:58:00 AM 0 comments Links to this post
Most likely will sell at break even ( or will set stop at 28.07)
Posted by DavidDT at 11/06/2008 02:33:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Posted by DavidDT at 11/06/2008 02:29:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Hope to be back by the end of the day
Posted by DavidDT at 11/06/2008 01:54:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
I hope this chart speaks for itself, don't hesitate to ask if you have to
Posted by DavidDT at 11/06/2008 01:22:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
Also, sold few INTC Nov13puts @.42
Posted by DavidDT at 11/06/2008 01:15:00 PM 0 comments Links to this post
So far looks like $VIX might stop climbing after 2PM.
It plays well with "sell before weallllly bad Friday's jobs number"
I will be monitoring QQQQ calls I intend to buy - will have to decide if it has to be done today or tomorrow first thing in the morning.
The problem with "buy today" for me is that I will have to leave for busyness meeting at 2PM - might not make it back in before 4PM.
So far I am setting up conditional day order to buy 1/3 of intended QQQQ Nov31 calls position when QQQQ last = 30.17
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