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Okay okay, I cheated. LOL! I initially wanted to do this website from scratch, zero, nada…. but with my lack of programming skills, I was going nowhere. Leaving my domain name empty due to my lack of incompetency is a real waste, so I’ve decided to get some help elsewhere.
The internet just blows me away with new ideas everyday. Before this, it was UShip.com, a shipping/moving bidding site that lets users bid for or list their moving services (from cargo shipping, moving vans, etc).
Now it’s, Prosper.com… a bidding site for.. guess what? LOANS! If you are looking for a great lending rate or you want to invest your money for a better return than the banks, you should check out this website.
My old alarm clock desperately needs to be replaced, I had to set my alarm to 5am to wake me up at around 7am. The 2 hour gap randomly increases and decreases every day so a lot of guessing work was involved.
My friend and I went to an area near Ikea to have dinner, after that we decided to stop by Ikea so that I can get a frying pan (cheap!).
While in a rush to go home, Ikea’s Dekad caught my eye. I just had to buy it. I always have a knack for vintage watches and clocks. It has a sleek, black metal body and it doesn’t look like cheap plastic replicas, there are no letterings or cartoon pictures on the clock face. It only costs me RM25 and I was obsessed with it ever since I paid for it at the counter. It’s perfect!
Two stocks (which I bought) opened with a gap this month…
SHFL had an earnings conference at 5pm on the day I bought the call options. The earnings announcement was great news and the next day, it opened with a huge gap upwards, my $1.85 call options became $5 instantaneously! It was also my first trade made with 2 contracts (I figured I have enough capital to buy more than 1 contract).
If anyone remembers my previous post about how paid-to-surf program sucks, I wish to take back what I said… partially.
I registered for an account at Alexa Booster, a paid-to-surf program. So I’d like to take back what I said about paid-to-surf programs, they don’t suck…. they just suck if you wanna get paid to surf, but they are great when you want to advertise and increase your website traffic for free!
I didn’t do pretty good this month…
ET was a mistake, I accidentally executed a sell order on a put option which I’m suppose to buy. Made about $1 loss there from the commission charged.
HUM, OII and JBHT was doing great and gave me a $300 profit initially but because I held it for too long (greed sucks sometimes), I ended up with a $35 gross profit. *sob* I broke the system rules by not using trailing stop loss.
Well, what better time to start learning how to trade and invest than starting in a new year, right? These are REAL Trades. Yes… with REAL money. If you are interested to know which broker I’m using, please visit this page.
I started well with LLL, but STA didn’t do well and hit the stop loss.
Paper trade.
Date/ Action/ Symbol Description / Quantity/ Price / Commission charged/ Net gain/(loss)
NSM
1/9/2006 STC .NSMAE-NSM JAN 25 Call Qty:1 Px:$3.5 Comm:$14.95 Net:335.03
1/4/2006 BTO .NSMAE-NSM JAN 25 Call Qty:1 Px:$2.35 Comm:$14.95 Net:-249.95
Gain of $85.08
INTC
1/11/2006 STC .INQAE-INTC JAN 25 Call Qty:1 Px:$1.45 Comm:$14.95 Net:130.04
You can check out my options broker. I opened my trading account at ThinkorSwim.com (TOS).
Apart from the fact that they have a weird name, they really set themselves apart from other options brokers. They have a unique website that’s not boring like other broker sites, sometimes their sales copy are really funny… Go to their “Our current promotions” page and you’ll know what I mean. I wonder when I’ll get my monkey… hmmm…
Paper trading. I have a starting capital of $5000 for my simulations.
CAMP
12/29/2005 Sell to Close (STC)
.CQIAB-CAMP JAN 2006 10 Call Qty:1 Price:$0.75 Commission:$14.95 Net amount:$60.04
12/21/2005 Buy to Order (BTO)
.CQIAB-CAMP JAN 2006 10 Call Qty:1 Price:$1.3 Commission:$14.95 Net amount:$(144.95)
Loss of ($84.91)
CELG
12/29/2005 STC
.LQHAK-CELG JAN 2006 55 Call Qty:2 Price:$8.1 Comm:$14.95 Net:$1605
