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Jorge — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:17:04 +0000

I know… it’s been a while. Give me a few days to catch up, relearn how to use this thing, and clean up this site. Life’s taken a hold of any free time I’ve had. I actually haven’t placed a trade since the end of November. Also currently looking for a job. So yeah… but anywho! Give me until the weekend to clean this place up. Stay safe this week!

Frustration and Exaustion

Jorge — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:54:20 +0000

First off, let me apologize for not being around the past couple of weeks. Life has a funny thing where it tends to throw 100 events at you at once before relenting. Keeping it short, between potentially finding a job due to the graduate situation here as well as random acts of stuff (flat tires, medical, vet, car), physically and financially my wife and I are tired.

Trading wise, I’m still down, and down hard. At this point I may need to just walk away for a few days and clear my head. I did have a nice a-ha moment last week, and while that a-ha moment paid nicely on Friday on a down 400 day, yesterday I gave every last dime back and then some. So at this point in terms of trading, I’m feeling a bit lost again. I need to find a trading partner and fast.

Looks like futures are down heavily this morning after some comments by Bernanke last night regarding inflation. I promise to update throughout the day but something tells me this selloff pre-market might not hold. Then again, the action across the markets in general have just been weird.

Thank You! 100th RSS Subscriber!

Jorge — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:25:47 +0000

I wanted to thank you all for your support in taking a few minutes of your time to read my ramblings. As of this afternoon, we’re now over 100 RSS subscribers! Thanks again to everyone reading Investing Adventures!

Jorge

Blog Income and Traffic Report – April 2008

Jorge — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:32:09 +0000

Man did April fly by. Guess that means it’s time for another quick blog income and traffic report, brought to you by the great people at Mario Kart Wii, because without it, wii’d be bored during the summer months.

TLA Links: $51.96
TNX Links: $31.37
Private Sales: $53.27
Google Adsense (Finally!): $101.75
Total for April 2008: $238.25
Total for March 2008: $298.63
% Increase / Decrease: -20.2%

And so another month’s in the books. As you can tell, I’m not particularly pleased with the results but there’s no one to blame but myself. Posting was extremely light last month with finals week and other commitments with school. Also, typically summer months have slower than normal advertising sales. If we can hold at these levels through the summer I think I’d be pleased. I’ve been trying to convert TLA links into private sales but that’s been a bit more difficult than I anticipated. I’m sure the current blog layout isn’t helping matters much as well. To be frank, at first the layout had potential, but recently I’ve thought more and more of purchasing a premium layout or potentially biting the bullet and hiring someone to redesign this site properly. We’ll see what happens.

In terms of traffic, I’m expecting a decrease across the board as well.

Unique Visits: 1,994
Pageviews: 3,335
Current RSS Subscriptions: 97
Highest RSS Subscriptions: 97

So close to that 100 RSS mark! Expect a great party once that happens. As with April’s income, traffic’s down about 20%. And once again, I need to force myself to produce content more consistently than the anemic April. If I could only trade the markets full time, I’d have all the time in the world!

And last but not least, the top 7 articles read this month. It’s always predictable when an FOMC meeting comes out to see what article’s at the top.

I was excited to see my GE article on Seeking Alpha. Although in the end I may have been wrong, it was still nice to take some data and see a side of it some folks were anticipating.

So there you have it. Items on the agenda this month include trying to get a visually appealing layout going, better (and more frequent) content, and of course my transparency study on my tiny portfolio. Have a great week!

“Transparency is the key to prosperity…”

Jorge — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:31:55 +0000

That’s what Kudlow would say, sort of. Anyways, a quick update since I’ve been gone practically a week. If you’re currently in the college circuit, you’ll know that it’s that time again for finals. Even as a PhD student, finals week always seems to suck time and energy out of my life. Couple that with issues at work and I’m sure you can figure out how things have been somewhat rough as of late. But anyways, a couple of points to note.

First, in an effort to be more transparent, and in doing so having a virtual trading journal, I’ll be posting my daily trades here. Mind you, I’m more of a swing trader than a day trader so while daily updates may not have actual trades, at the very least it’ll have my thought processes as to why no trades were made. Weekly recaps will be just that. I’ll have weekly totals as well as the best and worst trade (or non-trade) for that week. I think by being more transparent, in the long run it should help out my trading career if for the simple fact that I’ll be able to share more of my ideas and (hopefully) get instant feedback. Won’t be easy, but if folks can do it (see Virtual Office for example), I should be able to as well.

I have one final exam on Thursday so my time around here may be sparse, especially with the improvements I’ve made in my trading the past couple of weeks. While no earth shattering profits are being made (come on, I run with less than $1,000!), the main goal was to stop the bleeding. If you can stop the bleeding in a bear market, I can only imagine how things may work in a bull market. But the last thing anyone should be is cocky when trading. The market will humble you, be sure about that.