All the worry and dread is over about church! Thank the Good Lord! Everyone is in their place and now we can begin working on a new year! If there was any "gnashing of teeth" (as I called it yesterday), I didn't know about it. Everything seemed to go very smooth. I got re-elected to my class. I went from having all girls to having all boys. That's a change, but I'm up for the challenge! Sis got her new teacher and seems to like her very well. I think she will do a great job. No relapses on on the grudge area either! Hallelujah! I thought with having tense feelings about the elections, that there might be opportunities for me to start feeling those bad feelings again, but thank the Lord I didn't. I still haven't had any kind of close contact with that person. I thought I might have to today, but the Lord knew what I needed and I didn't have to. So, what I thought might be a bad day, with the Lord's help, turned out to be a good one!
I decided to take two days off from school thi
Did you have a bad day yesterday? If you'd like to start anew and have a better day today, then read on for some tips on how to have a great day today.1. Decide that Today Will Be a Great Day. Make it real by writing it down and saying it out loud to yourself. It may seem kooky but it works. When I set my wakeup alarm on my cell phone, I have this message displayed "Wake up and smile! Today is going to be a Great Day!" Don't be embarrassed. No one needs to know you do this. :)2. Take it Slow. If yesterday was bad or if you are tired today, take it slow to "warm up" before you kick your day into high gear. If you need to, stay in "slow & steady" pace for the whole day.3. Cultivate Compassion, Don't Judge. For a whole day make a pact with yourself not to judge yourself or others. Give everyone, including yourself, the benefit of the doubt for one whole day. Even if you don't believe what you're telling yourself at first, stick with it. It will help change the mental pathways th
With a healthy 1.23% gain today I was able to earn back a whopping 16% of what I lost in last week's massacre. I suppose all I can worry about is one day at a time.I sold MO and NTRI today. I was sick of watching MO drift south so I set a tight stop, almost daring it to trigger. It did just that. Although I still like NTRI, I sold it today because it was just so weak while most everything else was strong. I like the company fundamentally and I may well look to re-enter when it looks to have found a little more stable a base.I almost sold RX- and probably should have- but I couldn't bring myself to sell a stock with an RSI(2) of 0.76. If that isn't oversold then I'm not sure what is. AMR was also weak today in the midst of a mini-rally but I decided to hold it because it is trading at a level where it has bounced six times since April. I want to give it at least a brief opportunity to bounce again. Needless to say, both stocks are on a short leash.In regard to a stock that I don't
Today was a better day for clients, and the market, however, we're not out of the woods yet. The NASDAQ was only up about three points, so that ended up keeping SNTS, ACLS, & TUNE all under their 20 day EMA's. We need to see a stronger push up tomorrow to feel more confident about the NASDAQ and these positions.
I made money today and that is always a good thing. Being a glass-is-half-empty kind of guy, however, has me preoccupied this evening with my newfound love of stop loss orders. Stop loss orders were working well for me as long as the market was going up more than it was going down. But now that the market is acting choppy I feel like I'm buying stocks purely to watch them get stopped out a few days or weeks later. And I don't like that at all.The stop loss issue for me is closely tied to the question of what type of trader I am. And, frankly, I'm still not sure what the answer is. I'm definitely not a long term buy and hold guy and I'm definitely not a full time day trader- not yet anyway. What this implies is that I am somewhere between a swing trader and short term trader, but that's a pretty wide range. I've been entering trades with the intention of setting a stop- which I do religiously- and then owning them as long as they keep rising. In theory this plan involves raising
