I crashed my bike and broke my heel.

I was coming out of the parking lot of planet fitness and was crossing traffic. As I was turning left the rear tire lost traction, and as it regained traction it high sided the bike and bucked me off. I must have landed on my right ankle first and rolled on the ground. Here is what happened:

As you can see the Calcaneus (Heel bone) is literally ripped in half. When I landed, the tendon was so forced it pulled the bone apart. I am lucky to have been coming home from the gym. The problem now is that I have to fork out thousands for medical bills and bike repairs....

UPDATE: After getting the bike back, I've realized what happened. There was no slick road and it wasn't driver error. What happened is that I used WD-40 to clean my chain and it got on the left side of my rear tire near the 3/4 area. At that point, the slip was unavoidable and I am lucky to have had it happen at such low speeds rather than 60-70 mph. Here are the pics I took of the damage.

Thurs &Fri Update (Trading, accidents and power outages)

Busy day today. Had to replace the Hood and Front bumper on the Car. Accidentos Mi Amigos...

Needs some love and a wash and a paint...











These are the Stock trades I closed out on Thursday and Today.

Came to the charts today with the determination to trade, but to trade small, because I wanted to avoid being emotional. I did a good job of that. Trade size was $1,000 instead of the usual $5,000 or $10,000. I made back some losses and am no longer break even on this account again. It felt good to watch the market break down very smoothly but quickly, as my 15 pip trailing stop was just following it like a shadow. I think I want to start recording my trading again. I would have recorded today's but I was recording the Live Room with Akil Stokes from Trade Empowered.

Also, the other day we had a power failure. I don't recall mentioning that or not so if I did sorry. I bought a backup power supply on Amazon (APC BackUPS-550 to be exact) for around $55. The reason I went this this one is because the battery actually hooks up to your computer as well via usb and can shut your computer off when the power is getting low. I intend to test just how long the battery lasts soon. The software that comes with it measures and records all activity from power spikes to outtages and line noise. It's pretty awesome. Unfortunately, turning the computer back on is my job, but one step closer to covering my ass when I go live with a portfolio of Trading Robots!

Have a nice weekend!

*UPDATE*
The power supply only last 25 mins even with the monitor turned off... pretty lame, but at least it's something.

Some testing results

First, here are some sweet pics of the sunset in colorado I took today. Also, accidents from yesterday in Illinois and Nebraska

Fuckin sweet I know ;P

Ok, this was a real pain in the ass to do, but I went back through each trade that was made and implemented the martingale risk profile. Here is one minor detail I came to find out. Over the two month test period from January to February of 2013 the largest string of losses was 13 in a row. There is just no way to double your position size that many times so I had to make a rule. I could only have 5 losses and then I would start my position sizing over again. At my last size I would be trading $16/pip even though with a 10k account I could technically trade for about $40/pip after a string of losses that would need that size. Here is how my position sizing went.

-$10
-$20
-$40
-$80
-$160
-$10
etc...

I did get lucky and have a few strings finally win on the last trade before the reset for a win of +$240. If that had not happened and one more loss had occured, the results would be quite different I think. I will have to save my charts and make copies of them using different data points. That will be quite intensive because that guy who I emailed about updating the robot has basically ignored me. I don't have a clue what's going on with him.

Definitely make sure you download this chart so you can zoom in and see it. this is a comparison of the 289 trades during Jan and Feb of 2013. I wasn't super accurate with my placement of the box, but my goal was to place it at the start of each new daily bar and leave it the entire length of the day.

The top chart is with original static position sizes using $1/pip and the bottom one uses the martingale position sizing as mentioned above.

The area with the largest drawdowns are obviously the string of losses. Click HERE to download an html file of all the original trades from my Metatrader platform. There is also more interesting data in the file at the top. If it doesn't work let me know, but you should just be able to open in right up in your browser.

So... Although this strategy did end up at a 9% profit after 2 months, 289 trades is too small a sample size and too narrow a range of time for me to feel comfortable enough to put any stock in this just yet. I'd love to have at least a thousand trades, or run the numbers on a different position sizing method for the same trades. If I had a robot that could do it all for me it would be so much easier but damn... I am even willing to pay the guy and he just won't respond.

I'll keep you in the loop of any other data I happen to figure out. Until then I suppose I'll be hard at work.

-Francisco

Truck Accident

Winter is no joke out here...

It can go from bright and sunny, to barely visible roads due to blowing snow and right back. Here is a wreck I came across not too long after it happened. I originally thought this trailer was filled with microwaves, but haha, turns out it was salad xD

I have no idea how this happened or why that tractor was on the other side of the interstate like that..
On a side note, I downloaded a free charting program called Ninja Trader which gives me access to commodity prices. This is significant to me because I am in love with the Orange Juice market. I don't know why but I just love it. With that said, I will be taking long term trades in that market and probably a few others. I'll upload charts of all those trades when I put them on.

On a final note, it being Sunday I had the robot restarted. We'll see how that turns out throughout the week!

Happy thanksgiving

Stayed out of the market today. I was going to place the robot at the start of the new trading day last night, which would have given me a great position right now but I decided not to.

It does look like the downtrend is being continued for the mean time as the trend line is being respected still.

I'm tired as Hell and going to get some sleep. Enjoy your day everyone!






By the way, these are pictures of the night sky I took when I stopped Tuesday night, and then the next morning :) I only had 23 seconds available to drive (out of 11hrs) when I made it to a rest area that turned out to be abandoned... So I had to back into it and hope no one was going to give me shit for it. There are also a few pics of my journey home from that day. enjo!