Movies Watched -- Beast (2018)

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107 minute running time and I could have cut out seven minutes to make the sacred 100 minute mark, but it wasn’t overly long, which is the case with nearly every movie made today. I liked this one, even though it’s a W.D. By movie (written and directed by the same guy).

It’s a sort of horror / thriller / mystery. Mental illness, stifling family relations (Mommie Dearest), island life (Jersey) … I liked the class angle (as always) … lead actress was good, really good, amazing red hair, I think she’s Irish, reminds me of Sally Hawkins … movie has a strange vibe which is kind of wonderful, thanks in part to the cinematographer.

It’s not a great movie, but it’s unusual and good enough to get a recommendation from me. Green light, go.

You need help.

You need help.

Trading Notes -- 20190208 Friday

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Weird mixed tone with eod spike (see chart below) … brief notes … quiet Friday … lowered stop on AMRS and they jammed me out which was of course a perfect spot to add, so I instantly re-shorted (revenge trading much?) but I still think I’m right and this was so low-volume shenanigan BS, dummy de-Gentile revealed his big short so now they have to drive him (and me) out … SNNA the only HTB play, miraculously IB got me some shares but not even enough for a full fill on ONE leg, annoying and messes up the whole thing, thank god it worked otherwise I really woulda been annoyed … used bookie broker (0.0369) to short some more but again couldn’t leg in due to PDT, dumb, must get money over there but I’m worried about the bookies booking back to Bermuda or wherever :-) But SNNA a beauty entered C, got no adds (see above) but got lovely minC Typ3 exits for a solid win… if you were playing the morning “flag” breakout you surely woulda been trapped and crushed a real disaster but that never happens to anyone at least on TWTR, ya know… COTY an earnings play and I was a little smartassy shorting the PO B level or at least I think that’s what I was doing, didn’t wait for C which I think is a rule, innit?, but of course it went against me and I was good about not adding in the PM (for once!), will be a small loss if I don’t pull the stop which I very well might since I’m a sicko… ARRY not getting to minC and I wish it would before ToS gives me another margin call in my rapidly diminishing $4K account, lol … HYRE was a yday HTB SDJ and today it did under a thousand trades EOD talk about being StuckAtaProfit don’t worry no one holds overnight with the 7x fee sheesh. BIOC did an offering PO those dirty bastards, I recall shorting $3 just the other day and now it’s $1, but again, 7x ON holding cost. Usually I lose money on Fridays, often lots, but SNNA saved me today (bookie broker borrow the key there).

Lost and Lonely

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I dig this cover of what is probably The Cure’s best song. The bassist’s primal roar made me laugh out loud.

Dinosaur Jr. performs "Just Like Heaven" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded December 17, 2011. Hosts: DJ El Toro & Henry Rollins Audio Engineer: James Nixon Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holpainen & Patrick Richardson Wright Editing: Scott Holpainen http://www.kexp.org/ http://www.dinosaurjr.com/ http://henryrollins.com/

Americanization

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From this interview with Barbara Crossette:

“… but what is Americanization? You know, I'd say to people--they'd say, `Well, you know, Coca-Cola, you know, rock,' whatever. It--you know, it's not. It's--it is, but it isn't. And some of these things are--come from--it's human rights, it's the rule of law, it's the fact that the education system--we run it down all the time, but basically it works. Why do so many people want to come here? Because they know that when they come--if September comes around, the school's open and the children go to school, you turn the tap and the water comes out, electricity works, that the police have problems, but that there is a police force that, if your house is burglarized, you don't have to go down to the police station and bargain for how much money you have to pay for them even to register the case, people don't steal the stamps off your envelopes--I mean, the sense of civil society that works.”

I spent ten straight years in China, which made my love for America, and everything it stands for, that much stronger.

I also liked this line from her Singaporean friend, which is a folky version of 仓廪实而知礼节:

“When the tummy gets full, the mind gets hungry.”

Trading Notes -- 20190207 Thursday

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Broad tone neg, first trend day down in ages … I got a margin call in my $4000 ToS account on the ARRY as they gapped it against me, that was a surprise, never seen such a thing, it must suck to be a little guy, any kind of day trading just impossible if you’re short stacked, no wonder the kids go to the sleazy offshore bookie brokers, they don’t have a choice … anyway stopped out of ARRY and re-shorted it immediately in both ToS and IB. AMRS looked weak so I did the Smashian in the money add and it instantly went against me. Added more off today’s OR, but they drove me out. Made a sorta mistake not tightening stop on it, but did end up taking 1R loss (on one leg only, coulda and shoulda been three legs given morning action but I was confused by in the money add and old posish so thankfully took a smaller loss than I should have) on today’s trade … the larger AMRS play still underway, even added some more at C which was only semi-wise? Covered some MGNX at D since the range is so crazy there, I’ll be happy to be all out at minC, fingers crossed it’s way down there… two decent HTB plays this morning HYRE and ATOS (see below), I played neither, PULM a latecomer and instantly failed, I never woulda been quick enough, BIOC also briefly in play, I didn’t take the borrow, LCI earnings thought I’d get a play but they slammed it so hard during OR it was finished.

Trading Notes -- 20190206 Wednesday

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Broad tone slightly neg … my trading vacation hasn’t started yet since I needed to close up some old positions … and establish some new ones out of a sick need to gamble, lol. Adjusted targets in APHA and took it off for a decent profit, turns out the crazy sized add would have been good to hold on to but no I prudently scratched it, same goes for ZYNE which broke down dramatically but I had scratched the giant add so just took a normal minC Typ3 gain, which was impressive enough on its own… NVLN and TRVN the HTBs of the day, I was fortunate to choose TRVN (0.02) since it was picture perfect (see below) with a C entry and minC Typ3 exits, took a late in the day trade in ARRY in ToS and of course it looks like it will stop me out, zero for two in that account, ha! Something call MGNX, I called it Magnavox, went nuts, started shorting too early PO but it was fine since I sized it correctly (thank god) and got good adds at B & A, but I still might not make a dime in it, we’ll see, 1.5MM shares avail made it a must play, shorted AMRS again, we’ll see how it goes. EOLS woulda been a good play but I had a lot going on and went to gym at midday which will be a good new habit.

Tigers in Tiny Spaces

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I dig these old farts … that lead guitarist is almost exactly my age … the entire band shares my sartorial and grooming style.

http://KEXP.ORG presents Built To Spill performing "Living Zoo" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded July 24, 2015. Host: Cheryl Waters Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Luke Knecht & Justin Wilmore Director: Scott Holpainen Editor: Jim Beckmann http://kexp.org http://www.builttospill.com

Trading Notes -- 20190205 Tuesday

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Broad tone poz, shorts no tailwind. CRON woulda been a perfect trader but IB doesn’t have shares anymore. Got trapped in APHA end of day yday, stupidly tried my triple/quadruple sized scalp thing for the first time and of course got stuck, then pulled the stop, then added several times, then pulled that stop (all after hours) then carried it, then covered near top tick pre-open though not exactly top tick, then it got smashed at the open falling over a dollar from my cost, which meant that my loss was over 4x expected and if I hadn’t covered I woulda made a ton of money at the open… bad, very bad. But the story doesn’t end there. Shorted AMSR, IB miraculously found shares (now I know why), broke out of a giant coil, problem was my sizing on first entry was 2x normal so the eventual loss when I stopped out (didn’t pull that stop) about 2x average, bad. Then I re-shorted APHA in a disciplined way but added again 4x normal? and it went against me. Then I added to my ZYNE short (which was doing fine) 4x normal and it went against me. Notice a trend? Rough day. I’m going to walk away for awhile until I get my head on right. Might be at least a month given the extent of the losses.

Trading Notes -- 20190204 Monday

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Broad tone poz … short headwind … once again I left a bunch of open orders out there in ZYNE and APHA by mistake and got filled in everything … wasn’t super bad but I did have to pull the plug on APHA higher than I wanted and with more shares than expected… ZYNE sorta tanked so I may be ok there, we’ll see. Stock du jour was EOLS PO (0.032 borrow) and I shorted B&C and covered minC then waited on Typ3 but it had to go back up and test so I scratched it. Had massage today so didn’t stick around to manage stuff. Had orders back in on APHA, got back just after 3PM and APHA was tanking so I decided to try my new super-sized scalp and of course it reversed on me (Murphy’s Law) and went exactly a dollar higher, closed 11.40 AH (scary when you’re doing nutty size, IB thank god still have 500K+ of borrow, my nightmare is that they disappear at the top, after taking multiple 1R losses), anyway CRON also very much in play but IB had NO shares and that was weird because they’ve had a lot of CRON forever now; covered SXTC at minC and Typ3, StuckAtaProfit, took forever to cover, I was the bid for ages, huge winner but of course pales in comparison to APHA losses… OPK I cut at the close and 30 seconds later they announced an offering and it dropped 20%, comical. Some Chinese fraudy thing called ZKIN came alive late (“latecomer”) and there was literally no data to populate the chart so I couldn’t see what was going on… no borrow of course but it just faded to nothing … MDJH was sorta active PO but again no borrow and it died in RH. Recalling when NBEV went from 2 to 10 and I fought it all the way taking a mega-loss then borrows disappeared when it hit $10, I pray same doesn’t happen with APHA though loss there could make NBEV look like drop in bucket.