Two in a row!

Okay, everyone, try not to pass out but I'm posting two days in a row!!! Crazy, isn't it?! I know.

Well, the morning started out a bit frustrating. First of all, I got stopped out on my CYTR shares. Not a good way to start the day. BIOM actually had a slight gain so that one is good. PRW is flat. Blah!!! And NGEN closed out at 1.60 but it was a slow market day after all.

So my friend, the genius who is tackling the stock market like you would not believe, is going to help me a bit more. He has tried but alas, I'm very stubborn and like to do things MY WAY so he's had a hard time "guiding" me. He made me realize today that I am making some costly mistakes. For one thing, I am buying small lots of stocks, 300 here, 250 there, and I really need to put a big chunk into something that's on the way up, make my gain and get out fast. Do that over and over until I've built up my account and then I can start to add a bit more variety. Also, the sleeping in and missing the opening bell is probably not the best way to go about it either. And the fact I have to step away from my computer a few times a day is not helping much.

SOOOOOOOOoooooooo....I am giving my friend FULL control of my account to whip it into shape and I'm going to follow his every move and continue to learn. I know you will be wanting every detail so I'll still post here and you can follow along. No worries!

I'm going to do a bit of homework this weekend. My friend is into the Bio-Tech stocks and I found some great sites for breaking news:
http://news.biocompare.com/
http://biotech.seekingalpha.com/
http://www.genengnews.com/

So everyone enjoy your Good Friday and Easter weekend and I'll be back again soon!

I'm still here...

How sad. I feel for the few readers I have out there. I hate it when I visit blogs only to see their most recent post was days ago. I LOVE fresh content! So why am I not here more often?? Well, there are many reasons and I will not complain about them too much BUT the point of this blog to begin with, was to help more busy women like me excel at trading . When I first started out (granted, only a few months ago!) I found very few blogs from women traders! And even fewer from women like me who were married, raising a family, running a household and had very little time to jump into a venture like this and learn what you need to know to be a successful trader. I thought it would be fun, useful and informative to log my journey, not only for other traders, but for myself as well.

So enough of that!!! I can't promise I'll be here daily, as every spare moment I have on the computer seem to be looking for the next big move, but I'll try to get here a tad more often then once a week as that is a huge pet peeve of mine in other blogs!!!

So, a lot has happened since I was last here. I convinced my husband we should use part of our tax return to fund my trading account. I deposited a grand total of $2000 and it went in today at market open. I promptly spent my wad!! (I AM a woman after all!) My stock trading friend and mentor has been tossing bones my way for a while and I decided to shock the shit out of him and actually act on a few. Unfortunately I was not quite fast enough (translates into "snuggly in my bed and did not want to get up, put in my contacts and be at the computer screen promptly at 6:30 Pacific Time) so I didn't make quite the profits I possibly could have but I'm not unhappy with my holdings so here you go:
PRW - 300 shares (still holding from long ago, hope to sell soon.....)
Today bought:
CYTR - 200 shares at $5.24, stop at $4.82 which is an 8% loss
NGEN - 300 shares at $1.68
BIOM - 350 shares at $1.24

Bought these early in the trading day. My friend gave me the leads (actually I found BIOM on my own from previous evening scans) and I checked the charts, liked the volumes and jumped in. I set stops on CYTR and NGEN but did NGEN only till end of day and it ran out so I need to redo in the morning. I'm leaving BIOM as a longer term effort (know there is an official name for that....??).

So that is where I'm at. Isn't this fun? NOT YET! It was a bit gut wrenching. The big question will be whether I can be a successful and profitable trader while living my normal and hectic life!! This week, for example, my Mother is visiting for a week, the kids are on spring break and we have numerous activities daily. I also like to work out, preferably in the morning, which is during market hours. NO CAN DO. Today I worked out at 1:15, right after market closed. I also have a real job and work part time. My kids play sports, my daughter is getting ready for her Senior year in high school, we are a very busy family with a big social life as well.

So the purpose of this blog is "CAN SHE DO IT?" and I am out to prove I can!!!

P.S. RCAU...by the way...sold last week at $2.45 with a nice little profit (at this point anything, even $50, is a nice little profit!) but as you all know, this stock is out of control with growth!!! I like watching it even though it's long gone from my life for now.....

A Sigh of Relief...

Yes, I'm definitely sighing in relief that today the stock market rebounded! Was I a bit discouraged that thing started looking bleak right as I am delving into this thing? Of course!!! I am relieved that things are bouncing back. To be honest, I knew they would. I did not doubt it for a second!

I am several chapters into my book and just starting to get into the technical analysis chapters. How to read a chart. Specifically, a "candlestick" chart. I've fought it long enough. Now I guess I have to learn. I've determined that my style of trading, once I'm up and running, will be swing trading or someone who holds their stocks a few days, waiting to take the profit and move on to the next big thing. I work part time and currently have Mondays and Tuesdays off every week and then every other Friday off too. So this type of trading will work with my schedule.

I'm sorry this blog is not more exciting. It will get better, I promise!! I think I might put a sell order in for my PRW stock that is not doing that great. If I break even, I'll be happy! Then I will buy into something that is moving better, maybe testing my charting abilities. Just to humor you, here is my watch list:
DMGI
OPBL
MLSS
CYTR
OFI
CSUH
YTBL (I discovered this one, by the way, back when it was like $2.00something and then shot upwards of like $18.00!!!)
ITLI

So that is all for now. Mostly I'm thankful the market is heading back up and giving me faith in all things good in the world.