The end is near…

So i’ve got 1 week left in the didactic year of my dual master program at Baylor.  I finish the year with an oral board examination from Hospital Executives, Army Colonels, and faculty from Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business.  Assuming all goes well I’ll be phase 1 complete and headed to an Army hospital to start my internship/residency.  I attempted to continue day trading during the academic year but to use an Army term, was quickly overcome by events (OBE).  The academic portion was quite rigorous and demanded most of my time that wasn’t already captured by my family (being Dad is priority #1 in my book).  To give myself a way to stay in the game I took a great course given by Maverick Trading on options and started trading complex monthly options strategies.  This gave me a month at a time to position myself accordingly and generate income.  I highly recommend Maverick as their course was a boon not just to my options trading but also enhanced my equities and futures trading.  I learned a tremendous amount from them and will continue to work them as I drive on with my trading goals.

Marcello, if you’re reading this do not despair.  I have been practicing with your system on the weekends on the sim trader and I hope to find a way during my internship to be able to at least trade the first hour or two of the /ES open.

Hiatus Part II

So yesterday I started the 4th of 5 semesters.  The light is on at the end of the tunnel and thus far it has been a good experience.  I paper traded a few times since my last post and have been watching Marcello’s recaps, however, I’ve been away from the curriculum for so long that before I post again when school is done I am going to force myself to go back through it and re-complete all homeworks that are apart of the program.  Although it will be a lot to do again, I’m looking forward to getting back to it and excited that in a few short months I’ll get my after-duty hours life back.

Until then… happy trading!

Hola

This is the first of hopefully many posts in my daily journal of e-mini futures trades.  I had been reading about day trading one night when I couldn’t sleep and stumbled upon Marcello Arrimbide’s website wanderingtrader.com   Through his personal site I found his other website for The Day Trading Academy which he runs as he travels the world.  The first post that I read was a call for video entries for a contest to win a $10,000 day trading training program.  So I straightened my hair (what little of it there is) and I made my case in a 5 minute video at midnight!  Either he liked what I said or I was the only guy that entered the contest… because I  found out a few weeks later that I had won!

So it’s been pretty hectic so far… I put in for a month of leave and have used about 30 days now focusing on the curriculum and sim-trading.  I’ve learned a tremendous amount and i’ve got lots more to learn.  I hope to cronical these lessons here so that others may learn from my dumb mistakes and hopefully not repeat them!

Happy Trading!

Josh