Happy 6 month anniversary to me! Today marks 6 months from the date I started my journey. What I'm doing rather than trading right now: I finished up collecting longterm and intraday charts with my trades marked in arrows (one color for in, one color for out) on them. (all 300+) I fixed all my time errors from early in my recording days here on profitly. The times are now accurate on each of my trades (at first I had a hard time with converting military time and from eastern to mountain time. I also went over my excel sheet tracking my trades and fixed any errors. I am now going to start on organizing my 6 months of paper trading data to determine a few things. I got a laptop that I will be setting up for optimal trading capabilities. I will use my desktop for a bigger picture when I am able to. I'll report back once I've crunched my numbers.

Beginning to focus my energy and efforts to buying only multimonth/year breakouts with catalysts like earnings and such. Not the greatest execution just yet. But, I realized I can only try to add one thing at a time in this process. Practice makes perfect. Getting closer...

In case you're wondering, my name changed because I recently took my husband's new name. (He had his changed after many years of wanting to.)

Saw firsthand what an "overnight" financing can do to a stock. MBRX had excellent news of "cancer treatment breakthrough". I knew that kind of news could give a stock a second green day. BUT....duh duh duh! Financing. Important Lesson: I now have a new rule-If I am to be in a trade overnight I have to look into the financials of the company first. I'm implementing all the things Tim has said into my trading a little at a time. Trading is certainly the best way to see the lessons in action and really have it drilled into your brain. I may have a choppy profit chart right now, but that's okay. It's a process and I'm getting better and learning every day. Never give up. I know I'll make it.

If I could trade after hours I would probably have gotten out of my ZN trade already with a decent win. I am just going to have to ride it til morning though....*bites nails*

Starting the tedious, but worthwhile process of inputting all my trades from the last 5 months into a spreadsheet so that I can see a clearer picture of my progress as a trader. I'll add to it every day from here on out so that I can find patterns in my behavior. Profitly is great for being transparent, but I am ready to get deeper into the nitty gritty of the numbers.

I tried adding charts to my trades for the new year...doesn't seem to stick. Wasted about 20 minutes trying to add them. I guess it's not meant to be...

KODK: I believe that these fast moving stocks with news catalysts (Cryptocurrency hype right now) make for the very best "1st green day" overnight plays. I congratulate all those who were at market close yesterday to grab up this opportunity. (I was at doctor's appointments and visiting my neighbor who had a heart attack in the hospital.) However, I am grateful to have witnessed this opportunity as it was a valuable learning experience to me. I did manage to play it yesterday a bit, but also watched it all morning. HMNY could very well be the next...(if it can go green on the day)