Day Trading with Anni: A Day Trader's Passions about Trading and Life
Life relates to trading as trading relates to life. I write about how life relates to trading and sharing about my likes on anything from Anthropology to Zoology in no particular order, and discussing how I thoroughly enjoy LIFE!
About Me
Anni_V
Passionate about life, music, dance and all other sources of happiness!
"World leaders are never really smart; some just position themselves better on the chessboard." 12/09 Anni
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Alva Edison
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard
"We may be remembered as the highest educated stupid people per square mile in history, who in the end preferred sheepdom to freedom" Anni (7/14/2009)
"Nothing could possibly go wrong is often said right after hold my beer, I want to try something" 7/2/09 higgs @tickerville
"When everyone joins the parade, it's time to become a spectator" Anni (6/04/2009)
"There are no bad wines ...just spoiled taste buds" Anni (5/22/09)
"True power comes not by opinion but by deed" Anni 1/19/2009
"Hate blinds as does adoration" - Anni 11/08
"That we lie successfully to each other is natural; that we successfully lie to ourselves is a natural wonder." Robert Ardrey in The Social Contract
"Youth speaks at length, while age edits" - Jeremy Denk 09/19/08
"Socialism is an easy sell but much more costly to endure" - Anni 09/21/08
" I always enjoy life, music, dancing & all other sources of happiness." - Anni 09/27/07
"How you view me is up to you; how I project myself is up to me." - Anni 11/03/07
Nobody wins by accident; it's because they were prepared! - unknown
"Your Action Proves Your Word." - Anni
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. -Victor Borge
"I'm somewhere above twentyfive and below dead and depending on my mood, I'm able to act my age anywhere in between." - Anni
"As long as I wake up in the morning, I'm never too young or too old for anything." - Anni 09/21/07
"If all my days were perfect I'd check my pulse to see if I am dead." - Anni 02/08
Every time we play the rider we allow someone else the steer our way; When we play the driver we make the choices of our way. (from Blog Entry) Anni 11/16/07
Whatever you think about you bring about; whatever you focus on grows - unknown
"Some people look for dreams and dream away their lives, others have dreams yet find joy in what life brings." - Eulogy to my Mom, Anni 02/25/07
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Perhaps all this snow is a metaphor for the times we are currently living. I feel it is for me. Maybe it is a sign for us all to take it slow, ease back. Life will go on like it has for eternity. We need to quit trying to hurry things through, but instead, think things through.
There is a lot of hurry to fix, the economy, the ecology, the currency, the commodity, the climate, the budget and jobs, will only get us into more confusion, conflict, dilemma and chaos. It gives us more to do which may make us feel like we are getting somewhere, but it only results in more running around without reaching accomplishment. Maybe the snow is sent for us to realize there is a time for reflection and no action.
Regardless of the fact that I am living in California, I feel snowed under, so I will heed the signs. To my snowed under friends across the lands and seas, let it rest and enjoy the quiet life if only for a day.
Happy Trading, Living and Resting Anni
BIDU was a great play yesterday. with a total of 31+ point gain. Don't push it today, don't be too eager. Let it play for you in other words, become the dancer.
Broken glass lay about my feet, shards missed me yet they cut anyway. It's funny how things we hold dear can be broken and we feel pain, yet things we don't care for we don't notice passing. This was dear, yet perhaps the passing of it good. There comes a time when we all have to let go of things that no longer suit us, no longer give us joy, or no longer give us pain.
Notice how we hang onto pain? We get used to holding it and not even knowing after a while that it is painful. The denial, the need to hold on to the hope so strong, that we rather deny the pain than let it go. It is only when gone, that we notice the missing of it. Then we notice the relief or perhaps we notice the emptiness. Many rather than filling the emptiness with something new, yearn for the old and invite the pain again.
That is how holding on to a losing trade feels. The pain of daily looking at its existence after not heeding the stop, watching the bad go to worse and the resistance of letting go seems to get stronger with each tick, minute, hour and day ad it could be weeks or even months before we get the courage to finally cut the cord. Once letting go of the "friend", and feeling the cut of the glass long ago broken, the healing of the wound is almost immediate because the pain is gone and the good feeling is rather euphoric. A deep breath; do not dwell; just go on is often advised.
Once done, we can fill up the void by finding another trade, and this time promising ourselves we will not do it again, yet.... again it creeps in like a bad habit and the feeling of pain is almost welcome like a long ago lost friend.
It is not an unusual scenario, many commit it and talk of it less. Yet it happens in daily lives everywhere. We all do it in greater or lesser terms. It is not unlike the prisoner who has spent so many years in such state and knows no other familiar territory, seeks it again; or the person who's been terrorized so long, rather hold on to the known than leave the tormentor. Nations have done it too, like post communist countries that have drifted back toward the regime because the generations knew nothing better and their education was so riddled with indoctrination, that they have had a hard time assimilating true freedom.
The mistake is made and the repeat path is cast by not analyzing nor examining what made us hang onto something that served us not, but damaged the well being of our capital and our confidence. Whatever reason it may be, the examination of it is a must so we can proceed successfully because the pain will always be ready and waiting for us to don it again until the lesson is learned.
Happy Trading, Living and Letting Go Anni
The Play List:
BIDU today after hours and will most likely be a tight play but needs to be watched for the day for possible opportunities.
Research and plotting and posting a trade is only part of the journey to success. Once done, I sometimes stare at the chart and think to myself "impossible, how can I trust that to unfold?" or "It can't happen, what was I thinking!". I am sure these thoughts are very common within all of us while we look over our creation for the trading day. While it is important to be self critical, it is also important to be self trusting. Both will help you avoid mistakes. Look at each to balance the other, so if you are critical of something, look to see what you can trust about it.
The Play List of trades for the day is sent and posted for those who may wish to partake in the trade. Here is when again the pivot point is placed by you, the trader, and where the destiny of the trade is decided.
In order to participate in the trade, you have to trust something; whatever that is, it's the actual key to how far you will ride it. Maybe it's a particular point area within the posted trade, or you agree with the entry but not the target. Thus, you place the trust in yourself and it becomes your trade to make successfully and to the extent you decide.
It really matters not how little or lot you partake in the trade, it matters only that you recognize that you are trusting yourself and your ability and not so much me as you take control of the helm.
Happy Trading, Living and Dancing Anni
The Play List:
AAPL In consolidation with a slight upward bias, yet in a range where a few point can be harvested.
Research and plotting and posting a trade is only part of the journey to success. Once done, I sometimes stare at the chart and think to myself "impossible, how can I trust that to unfold?" or "It can't happen, what was I thinking!". I am sure these thoughts are very common within all of us while we look over our creation for the trading day. The the Play List, the trades for the day, is sent and posted for those who may wish to partake in the trade and it here where again the pivot point is placed and where the destiny of the trade takes place.
In order to participate in the trade, you have to trust something; whatever that is, it's the actual key to how far you will ride it. Maybe it's a particular point area within the posted trade, or you agree with the entry but not the target, and it's as thus that you place the trust in yourself to make that trade successfully and to the extent you decide.
It really matters not how little or lot you partake in the trade, it matters only that you recognize that you are trusting yourself and your ability and not so much me as you take control of the helm.
Happy Trading, Living and Dancing Anni
The Play List:
PCLN has plenty of play in her before the earnings announcemnt on the 17thFeb. Let's see if it can take us on a trip during rest.
What is it about us, human beings with such large brains, that makes us so stubborn? We often ask and pray for things to happen and wish to be guided in light to our redemption, but when we are, and opportunity stares us in the face, we look, pause, ponder, question, distrust, watch, study, research, wait; in other words do everything else but greet it with open arms and an eagerness we so often imagine. So, we don't jump in, we don't accept the drink.
We all know the saying: "We can lead a horse to water but we can't make it drink", and I bet many of us think at that point that the horse is dumb, but is it? I think not, it is at this juncture where the horse demonstrates its individuality and where we humans express our unique selves. It is at this precise point where we make the decision and take the true choice of what we wish to do, be or become. The horse may sense the water poisoned as we may sense it not to be correct for our path. Guides and the guiding may be nice and good, but it is up to us to make the decision which path we wish to forge.
It is why we leave our parents: to forge our own way and create our own reality. The horse may know that it will be beaten for not drinking, but what good is it for the "god" who beats it? The horse will choose life for as long as it can. We, the people with big brains will do the same. No matter how many guides, parents, gods we pray for, and invite to rule over our lives, ultimately we'll choose life for as long as we can and thus doing, create our own life, future and reality; each as individuals and each as people.
It may explain and help you in knowing that as traders you ultimately have the choice of taking a trade you ask for. There are many advice givers, me included, but it is your place of decision; it's your pivot point where you decided yeah or nay about jumping in.
In order to follow advice, you have to trust and that is the next topic of this place of decision.
Happy Trading, Living and Dancing (In another reality I'm skiing) Anni
The Play List:
Today's article was inspired by yesterday's $BIDU play that was posted for the members. It's not often that one can partake in a 10-20 point play. I was definitely guided to post the play for a breakout. Here is the post sent to members: " I've been waiting for BIDU to make a move and today may be the day.
I don't know when it will happen again; I can lead you to water, but, will you drink? It's your choice and your decision. SUBSCRIBE HERE
MA It's earnings play and most likely volatile with possible good opportunities:
