It’s been nearly 2 months since my latest update, but not because I’ve been inactive! Been quite busy on a new front, as I’ve almost accidentally started a side hustle, that of an Etsy shop producing movie prop replicas. If anyone is looking for some replicas of the business cards from American Psycho or Fight…
Tag: methodology
Major program changes now in progress
So I’ve been live trading using picks from my program for about 3 months now, with mixed results. Things got off to a great start, but ultimately the picks started getting worse and worse. It could very well be the market doesn’t want to play nice, as it’s been very schizophrenic as of late. Could…
The importance of protocols and self-control
These last two weeks have been a bit of a roller coaster, in relation to the market. After two great buys last week, the market decided to make things interesting by going topsy-turvy in the first half. It looks like Fed head Jerome Powell’s talk today brightened everyone’s outlook and brought the market back up….
Now on deck: trading for realsies
In my previous post, I wrote about how I was paper trading using the picks my program made. Began in mid-December and currently ongoing, all four are currently in the green, with one of them having the luck of the Irish by picking up Novavax mere days before the price blew up. I don’t recall…
The neverending process of programming something
The struggle continues! Despite my previously posted hope that I’d be trading soon (at the very least, paper trading), things have continued to pop up that need dealing with. At first the issue was that I kept adding or changing things to make them better and more efficient. As I was adding more and more…
Hit and miss coding
As I mentioned previously, I’m not an expert coder or programmer. I’m almost entirely self-taught, what I haven’t learned on my own I’ve learned via more experienced friends that I bug all the time. I use what I like to call “brute force” programming, that is, while I may be able to get my code…