The Lone Stock Trader’s Blog
2019 Review
Timeline 2009I lost $700,000, or 70% of all the money I had in a trade gone seriously wrong.2010I lost another $100,000 in a failed start-up business. I then decided to go back to trading.2013I reached a low point of $35,000 left in my trading account.But after taking...
My First Half of 2019 Trading Review
It's this period of the year. The period when I reflect about my first half of the year, both on a personal level, and of course on a trading level. This is the period when I dare facing the harsh reality of what happened in my life, how I performed trading-wise. It's...
How I Shifted My Focus From Money to Trading
10 years ago, I lost a whopping $700k in the market. That was 70% of all the money I had at the time.The details are not that important, but it is something 99% of traders went through, or will go through: a mentally devastating loss. To add pain to injury, as you...
My Trading Journal – New Features
I've just spent the last 2 months creating myself a new trading journal on Google Sheets. The reason it took me that long was that I've added new personalized tools to it in order to: 1- help me reduce my trading mistakes2- make it easy to check what would...
My 2018 Trading Results – Another Turning Point
My 2018 Trading Results Alright. I'm not going to lie. 2018 was brutal. Savage.I was up 40%+ at some point this year. And here's how I ended the year: Yup. Brutal.Anyways. I could blame the market, the algos, Trump, China, and just throw myself a pity party.... but...
The 4 Best Things I Bought this Year
As Christmas is approaching, I thought I'd share a couple of things I bought this year, things that I'm now using every single day and that really made my life better.Things are neither good or bad. It's the way we use them that can make our lives better or worse. 1-...
