FIFA World Cup 2014

Watching the World Cup tournament, so most likely not trading.

ES 6/9 - 6/13 +12.75

It's World Cup football (or soccer) time! Croatia got mugged yesterday versus Brazil. A bunch of bad/wrong calls against Croatia, which cost it the game. I guess home field advantage is alive and well. Today, another badly refereed game. Mexico had 2 legit goals against Cameroon cancelled due to bad/wrong calls by the linesman. Mexico was still able to prevail, though. FIFA needs to implement instant replay or add an extra referee and linesmen to the game.

Anyway, here are the charts for this past week.

6/9 = +1.00

6/10 = +3.25

6/11 - +2.75

6/12 = +2.50

6/13 = +3.25

ES 6/3 - 6/6 +10.25

With the exception of Thursday, this past trading week was slow with very little movement. Did a lot of surfing and was even contemplating switching over to the NQ, instead. Anyway, didn't trade last Monday and might not trade this Monday either. Have to run some errands.

6/3 = +2.75

6/4 = +2.25

6/5 = +3.50

6/6 = +1.75

ES 5/27 - 5/30 +9.75

Got 9.75 points for the week of 5/27 to 5/30. I ended up trading on 5/28. The car repair work would take a few days, instead of just a few hours. Had to leave it with the dealership. Took the subway home and was back staring at the screen a little pass mid-morning.

5/27 = +3.25

5/28 = +2.25

5/29 = +2.00

5/30 = +2.25

Light volume +3.25

Not much volume today...as expected, the day after a major holiday. Won't be trading tomorrow, as I'm helping take my b-in-law's car back to the dealership for service. Was there last Friday for them to repair the A/C. It was not blowing cold air. Turned out to be a broken fuse. Total damage was $211, of which $2 was for the fuse. The rest was labor cost. Dag! Anyway, the A/C was once again cold...for a few hours afterwards. By night time, it was blowing regular air again. I'm hoping for free service this time around, as it doesn't seem like the dealership did a proper fix the first time.

ES 5/19 - 5/22 +8.00

Netted 8.00 points for the week of 5/19 to 5/22. Was running errands on Friday 5/23, hence no trades.

5/19 = +1.25

5/20 = +4.00

5/21 = 0.00

5/22 = +2.75

Can't see the forest...+3.50

I sometimes have a tendency to not see the forest for the trees. Two examples of this today. First, went short without checking/noticing that I was entering at the support area. Was too mesmerized by the very fast bearish bar that formed. WTF?!? Stupid reason for entering. Prices then came within 1 tick of triggering a full-blown 2 points stop. Would've ended my day right there and then. Second, missed a great long setup, due to the fact that I didn't have the main trend lines in place. This was b/c I was so concentrated on looking for trades on the short side. The subsequent move up turned out to be the biggest move of the day. Dag!