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My 2 Cents on Day Trading, Especially The First 30 Minutes

July 31, 2008 By: Hiro Category: Key Learnings, Stocks No Comments →

Current YTD Performance: +$1565

Holy CRAP.  My life has been pretty damn super crazy this past few weeks.  Never ending bombs of deadlines, ever changing direction, and never ending adhoc analysis @ work haunted me for days forcing me to work 60+ hrs a week.  If that wasn’t enough, my ever exciting personal life kept me away from this keyboard for days.  I must say though, life is pretty good.

I shall see tomorrow if my life continues to get better with the investment decision I made today on Master Card (MA) and Visa (V).  I will explain more later… (more…)

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Something To Think About…

July 15, 2008 By: Hiro Category: Key Learnings, Others 1 Comment →

Current YTD Performance: $-2193

Dow has been declining fast and steady in the past week with the exception of today. THANK YOU for giving us despaired some hope for the future of this country. A surge of more than 270 points in Dow Avg? God we sure haven’t seen that in a lonnnng ass time.

For all of you readers out there that are in the panic mode, here’s a great article to read about the speech made by Warren Buffet, the richest man in the world and arguably the best investors to have ever lived.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/11/news/newsmakers/varchaver_buffett.fortune/index.htm

Here are some of the key points Warren Buffet pointed out: (more…)

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The Aftermath of Greed

July 14, 2008 By: Hiro Category: Key Learnings, Personal 1 Comment →

Current YTD Performance: -$2104

This is the aftermath of when you decide to get a tad greedier: (more…)

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How I Lost and Made $4000 In 6 hrs

July 12, 2008 By: Hiro Category: Key Learnings, Personal 2 Comments →

Current YTD Performance: -$1088

This is going to be more of a personal post, but I definitely want to share this experience. I’ve been doing really well the last few days in the market amid the crazy week Dow went through. As I track my performance at Covestor, I realized that I have been outperforming the S&P 500 this past 30 days. Man I am the MAN at investing…then Friday 9:30AM EST came, when my portfolio lost its value by $4000 within the first second after the opening bell. I think I almost broke my jaw while getting a heart attack. (more…)

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