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Posted by Martin September 18, 2022

2022 Week 37 investing and trading report

Another bad week for our portfolio. It dropped 12% again last week. But as you will see below, it is just paper losses. I didn’t sell any of my positions and in fact, I bought a few more shares of stocks I want to accumulate. My equity grew higher despite the selloff. So what is Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 14, 2022

Markets puked yesterday, what’s next?

The adage says that past performance is not a guarantee of future results or something like that. But the markets still follow certain patterns that tend to repeat. It is because the markets express human behavior and psychology. Even the algos that react to the events express the humans. Only much faster. They, too, are Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 13, 2022

Markets puked, should you buy tech stocks?

The markets overreacted to a 0.1% inflation miss and sold off by 4.41% (S&P500, the NASDAQ was even worse: -5.67%). Should we be worried? Will the markets continue down? And is this a good opportunity to buy non-dividend stocks? I like to buy dividend stocks because I get paid while waiting for the stock price Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 11, 2022

2022 Week 36 investing and trading report

As a week ago was a disaster for our trading and investing, it all changed on a dime last week, and we recovered all paper losses. Nevertheless, I was not trading last week. I only adjusted a few trades to bring them a bit in line with the stock price (that adjustment delivered credit), but Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 03, 2022

2022 Week 35 investing and trading report

Last week was a disaster to my net-liq, not necessarily trading results as I was able to bring in some cash trading options and dividend income was great too. Bu the open stock and options positions dropped and hurt the value of the portfolio. I think it will be just a temporary drawdown that I Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 03, 2022

August 2022 $100 Challenge account review

The stock market is still in crash mode. For almost the entire August we were rallying until its end when we lost half of the gains. And now we are at risk of going lower, which will drag our stocks with it. And that was a reason for not trading this account much. Sometimes, sitting Continue reading →

Posted by Martin August 28, 2022

2022 Week 34 investing and trading report

Last week I avoided trading as I was traveling. I was however forced to do a few trades. Why forced? It is typically bad to be forced to do trades and they usually end up in losses. But this time I had built reserves to avoid losses (thank God!). What happened? Well, have you ever Continue reading →

Posted by Martin August 20, 2022

2022 Week 32-33 investing and trading report

The market reached its significant resistance at a 200-day moving average, which impacted our trading last week. We made a few adjustments but mostly stayed away from trading.   I still struggle with buying power. I have plenty of cash but little available to invest:     Last week, I traded a little. I made Continue reading →

Posted by Martin August 06, 2022

2022 Week 30 investing and trading report

The market kept improving last week. Investors started feeling left behind and started chasing the market. A classic FOMO. However, on Friday, the market retreated. In the morning, it lost over 1% but recovered most of the losses. And the reason? Better than expected job data. Whether the job data were cooked or not, analysts Continue reading →

Posted by Martin July 30, 2022

2022 Week 30 investing and trading report

The market responded precisely as I expected. Not sure if it was because of being a TA genius or pure luck. I would guess the latter one. Well, I started using volume profile analysis, and that helped me a lot in identifying supports and resistances, so I expected that the market would reach the $4,120 Continue reading →