The Diary – 5-22-09

Life 

Even now with me being out of school, I’m finding there is only so much time to accomplish all that I want. I rode my bike to work yesterday. It took about an hour. I took two hours to get back home. That was because I woke up at 4:00 a.m. and couldn’t go back to sleep. I was so tired I took two naps in the grass along the lake. I fell asleep for an hour when I got home too.

Investments

When I got home, I had made $200.00 in the forex. I closed out my position and withdrew my initial $250.00 that I had put into my account. Now I’m trading pure profits. I almost got closed out on that trade as the market before running up 100 pips had reversed almost 75 pips. This was a great lesson for me as I realized my money management was out of whack. I’m now only going to expose my losses to 5% of my account value per trade. This has been difficult over my last few trades as my account is so small.

Creativity

Wednesday I signed up for Improv classes at Second City. I’m excited about that. I’m going to start the following Sunday.