lessons learned - Down To Crypto

Journals

2022 in Review

Knowing that I could have done even beyond this had I not had several slip ups throughout the year...

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I Blinked

Having just entered the trading game it feels like not a month goes by without me making one mistake or another.

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Journal Entry For September 2021

After a much-needed hiatus from writing during the summer months I am returning to writing semi-frequent articles. I’ve been coding away on improvements for my system focusing on stock trading and bug fixes.

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Accidental YOLO

In a world of GME, options and infinite leverage glitches I learned early on that managing one’s risk is the key to long term success. I accidently broke my rules and shenanigans followed…

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Hindsight is 2020

To say 2020 was the wildest year in quite some time would be a marvelous understatement. Nevertheless, it was my first full year running my bots live 24/7. There were ups and there were downs and I came out the other side a better trader.

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Fishing and Trading: Two things I am Mediocre At

Another one of my long-practiced hobbies is fishing. I find it very enjoyable to go and sit on a riverbank, beach or in a kayak and see what I can get for the day. The more involved in trading I become the more I realized the two overlap.

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Doing What You Ought To, to Get Where You Want To

No matter what we want out of life we very often know what we need to do to reach that goal but for whatever reason we simply do not do it.

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Quaran-tinued

For those who may have been looking for Quarantine Day 2 I am afraid my employer shipped me my laptop overnight and I had to get back to the daily

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Quarantine Log: Day 1

I woke up and wasted no time getting some exercise in. Before all this I was going to the gym at five am everyday and I found that I could focus a lot better after a morning workout. Then came a nice shower and breakfast. After that I cleaned up the kitchen and got to work.

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Reporting For Duty

...what I’ve been up to while remaining radio silent asides the endless tweets supplied by my bots. Coding. Yes, lots and lots of coding.

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A Year in Rear-View

Well 2019 came to a rather mundane end as far as my trading went. After 9 month I was up only 0.2%. This after being up nearly 30% is

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Quarterly Report Q3 2019

Well I made it through another three month period of trading! Though it hasn't been the most exciting, as I ended up with a total loss on the quarter, I sure got my money's in education from the markets. So without any further ado lets jump right into the numbers.

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Handling Drawdowns

No automated trading strategy is ever perfect, as a result one can expect to give back some profits given enough time. It's the handling of these drawdowns that can make or break a trader…

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Quarterly Report Q2 2019

Over all I made between 10% and 12% of my portfolio each month. This smashes the S&P 500 index, which only increased about +4.0% in the same time. However, BTC has gone up nearly +175% peeking at nearly +250% from April 1st to the end of June.

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My First Bot

Come early 2018, having read, watched, and listened to all I could about automated trading I felt it was time to try my hand at the craft.

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Trading the 2017 Bull Run

Now I was by no means an early adopter of cryptocurrency however I did get to experience trading during the late 2017 early 2018 period. It was shortly after this that I began developing a deeper curiosity for trading.

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Going Live

After hundreds of hours of development and testing I was finally ready to take the leap into the world of automated trading.