Running the account

Here we are, a period of short-shorters later and still in debt. It's tough, but someone's gotta do it.

I've been told I do things in "phases". Like this time it's my "become a teacher" phase and the other is my "save the world by sneezing" phase; comical to the point of idiocy. Really, give me more credit.

The training began a few months prior when I first exhibited my "trading for kicks" phase. Friend and mentor Quest aka Abel got me hooked to the notion of financial equality (i.e. there are the players, and there are the played), and the psychology of it all got me rather intrigued.

Chalking up a grand loss of more than $2,000 at the end of 2009, the disheartened but still very much knowledgeable me took a back seat to dedicated time to the surmounting pile of paper at work.

Recent developments (let's not call it a phase shall we) in trading methodologies and World of Warcraftry has called for my return.

So the challenge - $1,000 in the bank to lose, an unlimited amount to win. Over a span of 5 trading days. D-Day - June 14-18 2010.

Documented in this make-shift blog (also inspired by the great Mentor Ang - they call him the King of Volume Trading) will be the decisions, the outcomes, the mentality, and the other stuff that deserves your attention.

It ain't over till the fat lady sings. Let's go.