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
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