Running your own race

This quote has been something that our mentors has instilled within all of us during the course. I have always taken it to mean that our biggest obstacle to success is ourselves. 

In my previous posts, I have repeatedly said that you have to fit your trades to your profile. Make it fit to your lifestyle. To who you are. 

Well, recent events have made this very applicable and real to me. The little robot has started going to school and unfortunately the school schedule has absolutely wrecked havoc on my trading style. Since the class starts just before the time when humans need sustenance and ends sometime in the early afternoon and with the daily traffic, I have had to adjust, adapt, and innovate as a fellow tribe member has stated. 

At first, I thought it would be an easy transition. This past two months it really hit me that I can no longer buy at the close. Or even see what happens during closing. Checking the charts after trading is now a regular session of disbelief at seeing breakouts missed. Intraday buying opportunities that happen right before leaving for school have to be skipped. My system didn't want to have any lingering thoughts of buying super volatile stocks while driving on the road. 

So to compensate, I have had no choice but to change strategies. I went back to my notes and reviewed about trend following and sleeper plays. Being a mentor to bastards and the seed has also been a big help since it allowed me to get a fresh perspective on the power of MAs. Having had a coffee session with Zodiac's resident Dog was also very timely for it showed social proof that a different technique can still give massive gains. The only difference was time.

Time because...

- instead of being able to buy on the actual breakout, you buy in anticipation of the breakout. Your patience will be tested.

- your entries and exits are different from being an intraday trader. It means looking at the bigger picture. 

- instead of just focusing on the daily charts, the weekly chart now gets equal significance as well. 

- I would be at the mercy of forces that are not in my control.

This has been my first attempt at a TF trade. Not perfectly executed, but I think that it will do. 

MCP

But do take note, that I still try to keep up with a checklist of the intraday breakouts that did happen successfully. Which ones that were still caught by my scanners and which ones were missed completely. For at my core, I am still an intraday trader at heart. That is something that cannot be taken away. This is just a temporary setback. 

Going back to the previous analogy, this is a race that I intend to win. I imagine that we are all in a marathon, it doesn't matter how we reached the finish line, the important thing is we reach it. My circumstances might take me a bit slower than the others for now, but I will persevere.

For what does not kill us, only makes us stronger right? And being able to add and master a whole new weapon to my arsenal will only make my final form that much more deadlier. 

Programming upload 67% complete

Salutations!

Upgrading....

My weapons are not your conventional weapons. For what am I, a robot from Alpha Centauri doing in the stock market? I have no need for your monetary tokens. There is a different reason for why I am here. I am training my tiny nanites army. They are the tools I will use to invade and conquer other machines back in my world. But before they can take over others, they have to be trained first. How to react, anticipate and strategize against the horde of other hive thinkers. 

The concept of earning is the same as being able to convert enemy systems or nanites to our cause. If they lose money, then it is as if the enemy systems have converted them to their cause. This is as simple an explanation as your earthling minds need to understand. 

Upgrading....

Over the past two months of the course, my system has developed several attacks based on the strategies that have been imparted. My nanites have been trying to use the techniques to earn as much as they can. 

sleeper cells - my system will target stocks that have been non-moving or dormant for some time and will be able to gain the most amount of money at the opportune time. However, the patience required for this kind of attack has been a bit of a hard thing to input. My current success rate for this has been very bad. Need to further fine tune my system for this kind of attack. 

melee attack - this has been already been discussed in more detail in a previous post. My current success rate for this has been good. Devoting more focus to this should be of the utmost concern. 

repulsor attack - this attack is entering a stock at the lows in anticipation of a bounce. The repulsor attack pushes against gravity and should then trigger either a small bounce or a break of the downtrend. The entity known as Zeefreaks is a master of this but my system is still calibrating itself to watch the signals. 

combo attack - this has been one of the more recent lessons that we have had. As the name suggests, it utilizes a combination of 2 or more tools at our disposal to determine the correct entries and exits. Suffice to say, the usage of these combos have been an eye-opening experience for my batch. Such powerful weapons when executed perfectly could mean outstanding profits. 

Upgrading....

My system has suffered several setbacks this past month. Trades have not gone as smoothly as planned. There were numerous interruptions as to my connections and badly calculated risks were taken. But these are all small missteps to the path of success. 

Upgrading....

Weapon modifications complete.