Trading on sim live

got 3.3 points today.

Trade log

Been doing trading on futures for 2 hours plus and then just paused a while to check on many other ppl’s blogs and how are things.

Had done 26 trades with 11 wins and 14 losses. Been running the trading simulation at 7x speed and traded about 3 days worth of data.

Oh gosh. Like over half of the trades that I executed didn’t adhere to any strategy. It just becomes so easy to drop into instinct and gut feeling when trading.

Loss of 503 on paper. Yesterday was better at 160 profit for live trading. Got to paper trade more. Strategies are simple but it really requires a lot of work and getting used to get them into the head.

Moreover, the simulations were running at 7x speed, so the live one should give me a lot of time to react appropriately.

Stopping at several things

Decided to stop at several things. Probably not gonna touch internet marketing (just an interesting topic) for quite a while. Spent the while mrt journey thinking that I have got enough and what is important for me is to save and not bother to stress myself out anymore.

Probably be blogging lesser also.

Major leg sprain

Should have just used ice and warm water on the leg. The chinese physician actually made it worse.

Thanks to the stranger who helped me to get a taxi at the MRT. And also my colleagues for asking and showing concern.

A pretty nice video. The editing and whole movie was done really well.

Had spent some time on the page, Construct Passive. And been checking the forums on the idea and the feasibility of it, whether each and every part is really made well, especially the keyword phrase.

In the end, it’s really summed up in two words. I’m afraid. Had so many failures in internet marketing that I don’t even know where to re-pick up again.

Ha. Don’t feel like touching it ever again. And yet, it does feel that it’s quite close. Agonizing and clipped between two sides of fear and the allure of success (whatever that may be). HA!

Whatever it may be, it’s just a part time job. My full time job is still important.

Quote

It always starts with the first step that is right. The rest is simply magic….. Simply incomprehensible.

A week of nothing

Had spent the entire week doing….. nothing.

Didn’t progress on internet marketing. Zlich. At such a risky part now which involves spending more money.

Been looking at the type of products that I have. Saving marriages, dermatitis, eczema, home refinancing. The thing is, will these products really make it? Next step would be to set them all up and then do articles for promoting these products. I just have doubts. A lot of doubts, not just little doubts.

Logically….. the market (who I am selling to) can be targeted and filtered to pick good traffic. Logically also, the products each have got a good sales page on them. Logically…. people will click on to find more information….. Logically…. if you targeting an urgent or desperate market, people will be more willing to buy.

I guess I’m just risk adverse. Or that there is just that nagging fear or doubt that just has to be addressed.

Been looking for a girlfriend. With my job, it’s good to start thinking about getting a gf and family also. The recent ICT really had a lot of my pals with gf and some are getting married also.

Within my circle of like 3 girls that I know…. come to think of it, I had only known 3 girls (with at least some personal facts) from secondary school till university. *Shivers* One doesn’t respond to me at all when I try to talk and the other two are with bf.

Damn, maybe it’s time to really consider SDU dates.

Unlimited Blade Works

From the anime Fate Stay Night.

End of ICT

Ha, this has to be one of the most slack ICT I ever got.

Been sleeping in bunk for the past 4 days and leveling up on my PSP. The risk and monopoly battles were great. And ended with a bowling session.

Too bad didn’t go KTV though.

Amazingly good ICT.

Nothing to do, somewhat good

Now with a good job that is really much less stressful, and it’s really more than I could ask for.

Somewhat I’m really relaxed now and there is really very little work to be done.

No need to stress about where the money is coming from, financials and etc.

I think I lost count on the number of times which I had actually changed the strategy in which to do marketing, totally lost count.

Totally didn’t do anything this weekend. Just went to Comdex, and relaxed around the whole evening and night. I think it is the first since months that I actually just relaxed without restrain.

Fatal mistakes

Made a few fatal mistakes on the project that I was doing at the sidelines. I didn’t realize the ordering part was so important. Damn. Anyway, realized the mistake after I had spec-ed out the stuff and outsourced it (which was too late).

Seems like a huge waste of work (and money).

I did make another few lenses and they are bringing in small amounts of cash ($50).

I guess the good part is that I had not gotten any losses as of yet and everything seems to count out in the profits (though not a lot).

I had learned and tried quite a number of things, like SEO, sales and etc but still nothing major or consistent.

I might want to go into the very preliminary stages and decide more on those parts rather than jumping into SEO and PPC. The keywords and competition analysis. And also the type of niche that is involved.

Micro niche finder seems to be good for spotting good niche markets with low competition and reasonable demand. The $97 is putting me off.

Also been looking at article writing services that I can get 400 word articles at $2.40 ea. Might be good since if I want to do bulk, going for a service is a good alternative rather than writing it all out by myself.