This blog: This blog is a Journal of my stock trades and ideas as I move forward through the turbulence of these markets. I am still forming my thoughts and charting to the best of my ability. Please use these posts and charts along with any of your own biases, knowledge and research as one piece of a greater puzzle as you invest or trade any money.

These charts: However, I do want to say that I am serious. I am not full time daytrader or a professionally paid broker or analyst. BUT I do take the things I post here seriously. I will not post charts, commentary or personal trade results that are not my own. (If I post an article you will know it's not mine)

The Results: The 2010 Trading results I am now posting on the site should be taken with a grain of salt. They are indeed real, but you must remain skeptical because I am not going to open my books and proove it.  I am not selling anything, and until then the books remain closed.  What you will see here are my charts and notes regarding certain stocks I am looking at to trade or invest.  You may or may not even know if I got into a trade or not.

Moving forward: I am planning a futures trading challenge. ThinkorSwim has a great platform for trading and you can paper trade to your heart's content for free. The trading challenge will be one vehicle.  Dollar futures. I am thinking that the account will start with 5k of virtual money. (Trading futures with a small 5k account is most likely too risky and on the verge of nuts if you were new to trading and it were real cash.) But what the hey. The trades will be posted and tracked on a trade by trade basis on this site. I want to see how long it takes to double my money or fold. The purpose is to get better trading futures. Also dollar futures are my favorite vehicle to trade. It can be very dangerous and account imploding if you don't practice strict money management. I will keep you posted.

Until next time.

-S