If you find yourself reading this, please understand this is just a place where I sometimes vent. I am the type of personality that gets it out of my system and moves on … well… unless you are on my eternal shit list. Also understand, my humor can be dark Read more…
I have this addiction to purchasing internet domain names that fit topics I am interested in. This blog is an example. I was looking for a domain name that fits my trading style, but alas it had already been taken. The domain name in question is lazytrader.com which leads to Read more…
Update 10/1/2020: I have since closed my TastWorks account. They were eating me up on fees slow fills with bad prints through APEX. The brokerage is good for people just learning how to trade options, but it is not good for serious traders that put on a lot of trades Read more…
I have had an account with interactive brokers (IB) for over 20 years. They used to be about the only broker, for the working man, that had a direct pipeline to trade in the market and are very fast when it came to filling orders. Their software was the bomb Read more…
I originally had a Stocktwits account back in 2008 when it was new and still a fairly civil place where people shared ideas. That account apparently got deleted because I could no longer log in to it. I’ve been told either someone reported me for abuse or the site’s bots Read more…
I only use the news to trade when I feel a stock is being pumped. This is probably on 5% of my trades when the volume is ramping up. Pump and dump schemes are the oldest game in the book. It is interesting that gangsters get racketeering charges for this, Read more…
Most of my money is in long-term investments in the form of high-interest closed-end funds (CEF’s) in which I reinvest the dividend payouts. These are considered a riskier form of investment. I have had no issue with them and have alerts set up on my brokerage account if / when Read more…
I pretty much trade on any electronic device, my cellphone, a tablet, a laptop, etc. There is nothing like the feeling of stretching out on a desktop system to where you feel like you are in control of command central. Mi Fiance laughs saying that I am controlling the world Read more…