We are back from Arizona. We rolled back into our garage this morning around 1am Eastern. We had been gone since Tuesday morning when Knoxville was being pounded (flurries of some substance) with snow and schools were closing (which they do at the mention of “snow”). Our trip went well and without much trouble either. [...]

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I am needing a little self-help here. With the Stock Market picking a direction, it should be like taking Candy from a Baby on making money trading (NOT INVESTING!) right now. I mean, I was making money off my trades when The Market hadn’t decided what it was going to do. I am being stoooopid [...]

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Because I am in it. That’s right for 2 days, I am in different zipcode and state! And my residence is a Microtel room near Duluth, GA. I am here for an Advanced Technicals (Trading stuff) 2-day workshop. This will slightly alter my marathon training schedule, but it shouldn’t be too bad in the big [...]

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One of my heroes is Elijah Talley. He’s my Lance Armstrong of the kid universe, so much in fact that I replace my LiveSTRONG bracelet with a Pray for Elijah bracelet. Although I have never met him, I am very good friends with Susan from Olive Branch who is Elijah’s biggest fan. I would not [...]

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I’m in Draper, UT… Given the distance, it might have been prudent to have rented a car. But I don’t have that risk to worry about, but I won’t really be able to go explore Salt Lake City on the way back to the airport. I am staying at a Fairfield Inn, so if you [...]

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Looks like it’s going to be one of those Digest versions of the week. I did have some incidents that could warrant a seperate entry all to itself, but I ran out of time. Monday: Terry Day got switched from Tuesday to Monday, so I ended up running 4.4 miles at Lakeshore under some beautiful [...]

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I have been going crazy today… and it doesn’t stop for a while. I had a very long, dry conference call this morning that when on for an hour and a half. Bor-RAH-A-RING… then I decided to shop for some more eBay inventory to sell and was a little disappointed that the jackets I wanted [...]

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As I posted yesterday, I was going to take a trade and allocate the profit from that trade as a donation to an Autism Charity. Well, I had one position that I closed with a profit yesterday. The trade was a call option (Apr $230) that I purchased for $1840 for First Solar Inc. (FSLR). [...]

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As many of you know, I am a novice trader, yet a professional one (by definition, I guess). I have been trading stocks since August of 2007 when I stepped out of Paper Money (i.e. trade like it’s hot, but with monopoly money) and into the big bad world of real money. As I am [...]

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Don’t you hate it when you lose $2000 that wasn’t yours. Of course you do! Okay, this is a trading scenario, so if this bores you… move along, move along, this is not post you were looking for. Here’s how I lost $2000. Friday afternoon, I bought 2 First Solar (FSLR) “put options”, meaning that [...]

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