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Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7
Aka: A developers view of the Windows 7 Engineering process
This post is by Larry Osterman. Larry is one of the most "experienced" developers on the Windows team and has been at Microsoft since the mid 1980's. There are only three other folks who have worked at Microsoft longer on the entire Windows team! Personally, I remember knowing about Larry when I started at Microsoft back in 1989—I remember he worked on "multimedia" (back when we used to host the Microsoft CD-ROM Conference) and he was one of those people that stood up and received a "5 Year" award from Bill Gates at the first company meeting I went to—that seemed amazing back then! For Windows 7, Larry is a developer on the Devices and Media team which is where we work on audio, video, bluetooth, and all sorts of cool features for connecting up devices to Windows.
Larry wrote this post without any prodding and given his experience on so many Windows releases these thoughts seemed really worthwhile in terms of sharing with folks. This post goes into "how" we work as a team, which for anyone part of a software team might prove pretty interesting. While this is compared and contrasted with Vista, everyone knows that there is no perfect way to do things and this is just a little well-informed perspective.
So thank you Larry! --Steven
Thanks to Steven and Jon for letting me borrow their soapbox :-).
I wanted to discuss my experiences working on building Windows 7 (as opposed to the other technical stuff that you've read on this blog so far), and to contrast that with my experiences building Windows Vista. Please note that these are MY experiences. Others will have had different experiences; hopefully they will also share their stories here.
The experience of building Windows 7 is dramatically different from the experience of building Vista. The rough outlines of the product development process haven't changed, but organizationally, the Windows 7 process is dramatically better.
For Windows Vista, I was a part of the WAVE (Windows Audio Video Excellence) group. The group was led by a general manager who was ultimately responsible for the deliverables. There was a test lead, a development lead and a program management lead who reported to the general manager. The process of building a feature roughly worked like this: the lead program managers decided (based on criteria which aren't relevant to the post) which features would be built for Windows and which program managers would be responsible for which feature. The development leads decided which developers on the team would be responsible for the feature. The program manager for the feature wrote a functional specification (which described the feature and how it should work) in conjunction with development. Note that the testers weren't necessarily involved in this part of the process. The developer(s) responsible for the feature wrote the design specification (which described how the feature was going to be implemented). The testers associated with the feature then wrote a test plan which described how to test the feature. The program manager or the developer also wrote the threat model for the feature.
The developer then went off to code the feature, the PM spent their time making sure that the feature was on track, and when the developer was done, the tester started writing test cases.
Once the feature was coded and checked into the source tree, it moved its way up to the "winmain" branch. Aside: The Windows source code has been arranged into "branches" – the root is "winmain", which is the code base that would ultimately become Windows Vista. Each developer works in what are called "feature branches", which merge changes into "aggregation branches", the aggregation branches move into winmain.
After the feature was coded, the testers tested, the developers fixed bugs and the program managers managed the program :-). As the product moved further along, it got harder and harder to get bug fixes checked into winmain (every bug fix carries with it a chance that the fix will introduce a regression, so the risk associated with each bug fix needs to be measured and the tolerance for risk decreases incrementally). The team responsible for managing this process met in the "ship room" where they made decisions every single day about which changes went into the product and which ones were left out. There could be a huge amount of acrimony associated with that – often times there were debates that lasted for hours as the various teams responsible for quality discussed the merits associated with a particular fix.
All-in-all, this wasn't too different from the way that features have been developed at Microsoft for decades (and is basically consistent with what I was taught back in my software engineering class back in college).
For Windows 7, management decided to alter the engineering structure of the Windows organization, especially in the WEX [Windows Experience] division where I work. Instead of being fairly hierarchical, Steven has 3 direct reports, each representing a particular discipline: Development, Test and Program Management. Under each of the discipline leads, there are 6 development/test/program management managers, one for each of the major groups in WEX. Those 2nd level managers in turn have a half a dozen or so leads, each one with between 5 and 15 direct reports. This reporting structure has been somewhat controversial, but so far IMHO it's been remarkably successful.
The other major change is the introduction of the concept of a "triad". A "triad" is a collection of representatives from each of the disciplines – Dev, Test and PM. Essentially all work is now organized by triads. If there's ever a need for a group to concentrate on a particular area, a triad is spun off to manage that process. That means that all three disciplines provide input into the process. Every level of management is represented by a triad – there's a triad at the top of each of the major groups in WEX, each of the second level leads forms a triad, etc. So in my group (Devices and Media) there's a triad at the top (known as DKCW for the initials of the various managers). Within the sound team (where I work), there's another triad (known as SNN for the initials of the various leads). There are also triads for security, performance, appcompat, etc.
Similar to Windows Vista, the leads of all three disciplines get together and decide a set of features that go in each release. They then created "feature crews" to implement each of the features. Typically a feature crew consists of one or two developers, a program manager and one or two testers.
This is where one of the big differences between Vista and Windows 7 occurs: In Windows 7, the feature crew is responsible for the entire feature. The crew together works on the design, the program manager(s) then writes down the functional specification, the developer(s) write the design specification and the tester(s) write the test specification. The feature crew collaborates together on the threat model and other random documents. Unlike Windows Vista where senior management continually gave "input" to the feature crew, for Windows 7, management has pretty much kept their hands off of the development process. When the feature crew decided that it was ready to start coding (and had signed off on the 3 main documents), the feature crew met with the second level triad (in my case with DKCW) to sanity check the feature – this part of the process is critical because the second level triad gets an opportunity to provide detailed feedback to the feature crew about the viability of their plans.
And then the crew finally gets to start coding. Sort-of. There are still additional reviews that need to be done before the crew can be considered "ready". For instance, the feature's threat model needs to be reviewed by one of the members of the security triad. There are other parts of the document that need to be reviewed by other triads as well.
A feature is not permitted to be checked into the winmain branch until it is complete. And I do mean complete: the feature has to be capable of being shipped before it hits winmain – the UI has to be finished, the feature has to be fully functional, etc. In addition, when a feature team takes a dependency on another Windows 7 feature, the feature teams for the two features MUST sign a service level agreement to ensure that each team knows about the inter-dependencies. This SLA is especially critical because it ensures that teams know about their dependants – that way when they change the design or have to cut parts of the feature, the dependent teams aren't surprised (they may be disappointed but they're not surprised). It also helps to ensure tighter integration between the components – because one team knows the other team, they can ensure that both teams are more closely in alignment.
Back in the Vista day, it was not uncommon for feature development to be spread over multiple milestones – stuff was checked into the tree that really didn't work completely. During Win7, the feature crews were forced to produce coherent features that were functionally complete – we were told to operate under the assumption that each milestone was the last milestone in the product and not schedule work to be done later on. That meant that teams had to focus on ensuring that their features could actually be implemented within the milestone as opposed to pushing them out.
For the nuts and bolts, The Windows 7 development process is scheduled over several 3-month long milestones. Each milestone allowed for 6 weeks of development and 6 weeks of integration – essentially time to fine-tune the feature and ensure that most of the interoperability problems were shaken out.
Ok, that's enough background (it's bad when over half a post on Windows 7 is actually about Windows Vista, but a baseline needed to be established). As I said at the beginning, this post is intended to describe my experiences as a developer on Windows 7. During Windows 7, I worked on three separate feature crews. The first crew delivered two features, the second crew delivered about 8 different features all relatively minor and the third crew delivered three major features and a couple of minor features. I also worked as the development part of the WEX Devices and Media security team (which is where my series of post on Threat Modeling came from – I wrote them while I was working with the members of D&M on threat modeling). And I worked as the development part of an end-to-end scenario triad that was charged with ensuring that scenarios that the Sound team defined at the start of the Windows 7 planning process were actually delivered in a coherent and discoverable way.
In addition, because the test team was brought into the planning process very early on, the test team provided valuable input and we were able to ensure that we built features that were not only code complete but also test complete by the end of the milestone (something that didn't always happen in Vista). And it ensured that the features we built were actually testable (it sounds stupid I know, but you'd be surprised at how hard it can be to test some features). As a concrete example, we realized during the planning process that some aspect of one of the features we were working on in M2 couldn't be completed during the milestone. So before the milestone was completed, we ripped the feature out (to be more accurate, we changed the system so that the new code was no longer being built as a part of the product). During the next milestone, after the test team had finished writing their tests, we re-enabled the feature. But we remained true to the design philosophy – at the end of the milestone everything that was checked into the "main" branch was complete – it was code AND test complete, so that even if we had to ship Windows 7 without M3 there was no test work that was not complete. This is a massive change from Vista – in Vista, since the code was complete we'd have simply checked in the code and let the test team deal with the fallout. By integrating the test teams into the planning process at the beginning we were able to ensure that we never put the test organization into that bind. This in turn helped to ensure that the development process never spiraled out of control. Please note that features can and do stretch across multiple milestones. In fact one of the features on the Sound team is scheduled to be delivered across three milestones – the feature crews involved in that feature carefully scheduled the work to ensure that they would have something worth delivering whenever Windows 7 development was complete.
Each of the feature crews I've worked on so far has had dramatically different focuses – some of the features I worked on were focused on core audio infrastructure, some were focused almost entirely on UX (user experience) changes, and some features involved much higher level components. Because each of the milestones was separate, I was able to work on a series of dramatically different pieces of the system, something I've really never had a chance to do before.
In Windows 7, senior management has been extremely supportive of the various development teams that have had to make the hard decisions to scale back features that were not going to be able to make the quality bar associated with a Windows release – and there absolutely are major features that have gone all the way through planning only to discover that there was too much work associated with the feature to complete it in the time available. In Vista it would have been much harder to convince senior management to abandon features. In Win7 senior management has stood behind the feature teams when they've had to make the tough decisions. One of the messages that management has consistently driven home to the teams is "cutting is shipping", and they're right. If a feature isn't coming together, it's usually far better to decide NOT to deliver a particular feature then to have that feature jeopardize the ability to ship the whole system. In a typical Windows release there are thousands of features and it would be a real shame if one or two of those features ended up delaying the entire system because they really weren't ready.
The process of building 7 has also been dramatically more transparent – even sitting at the bottom of the stack, I feel that I've got a good idea about how decisions are being made. And that increased transparency in turn means that as an individual contributor I'm able to make better decisions about scheduling. This transparency is actually a direct fallout of management's decision to let the various feature teams make their own decisions – by letting the feature teams deeper inside the planning process, the teams naturally make better decisions.
Of course that transparency works both ways. Not only were teams allowed to see more about what was happening in the planning process, but because management introduced standardized reporting mechanisms across the product, the leads at every level of the hierarchy were able to track progress against plan at a level that we've never had before. From an individual developer's standpoint, the overhead wasn't too onerous – basically once a week, you were asked to update your progress against plan on each of your work items. That status was then rolled up into a series of spreadsheets and web pages that allowed each manager to track all the teams' progress against plan. This allowed management to easily and quickly identify which teams were having issues and take appropriate action to ensure that the schedules were met (either by simplifying designs, assigning more developers, or whatever).
In general, it's been a total blast building 7. We've built some truly awesome features into the operating system and we've managed to keep the system remarkably stable during that entire process.
--Larry Osterman
Just as Messenger, and soon Movie Maker got cut, we will see more and more cuts, but the features will still be out there. Way to go. The biggest feature of Windows 7 will have to be the code shrinkage. Even if the requirements are the same, and tons of new features added, I expect the code won't grow much if at all, if not shrink a little. While that isn't the holy grail, it will still be very interesting.
Also, I have to say that Seven is also a great name, and if I don't see a Bond (i.e. 007) joke before this thing hits SP1, I will have to give up on Microsoft's sense of humor or marketing.
Yes I love It UMPC MT+ Windows 7 = Surface consumer :D
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Go Micosoft GO!!!
The phrase "delivered in a coherent and discoverable way" caught my attention. As said, there are thousands of features implemented in Windows releases. The problem is that a lot of them are not easily discovered.
The Welcome Center in Vista makes an attempt at helping to discover features but falls short, in my mind at least, of being truly useful. The "What's new in Windows Vista" entry talks about Searching And Organizing, for example, but never gets to any meat. It says you can search for stuff and points out the search box, but never talks about the cool points of how to use it. It links to a help article "Demo: Working with files and folders", which doesn't even touch on search.
I wonder how many people know that you can search from the start menu for emails in outlook. How many "power users" wanted to turn off UAC and had trouble finding the switch when they could have simply used the search box in the Control Panel window to search for "uac" and be led right to it? How many know that you can use natural language for searches to narrow down searches, like "email from email@example.com" or "Songs by SomeArtist"? For those that do, how many are really familiar with the extent of that usage? I'm certainly not. I just know that it can be done, and I haven't taken the time to find a listing of the possibilities.
This leaves a lot a room for improvement. Of course it's probobly a bit late in the development lifecycle for Win7 feature suggestions, but here's one anyway, maybe for the next release or a service pack or something. A mechanism to help in discovery of prominent features by tracking which have been hit. Privacy concerns abound with any tracking so it'd have to be opt-in or whatever, but I'd certainly make use of it if it did a good job.
Say there's a set of features that you want to make sure that users discover. Have a checklist somewhere of what points of what features are hit by the user. Let the user opt in, and track which features have been touched on, and how well they're being utilized. Monitor certain clues indicative of a place they could work faster or easier.
Take search, for example. If a person is always going into All Programs in the start menu, prompt them in a non-intrusive way and ask if they know they can search for programs in the start menu. If they're exploring a lot of Control Panels but never doing anything, suggest they try searching for what they want. If they search for *.mp3 suggest they use "songs" instead, and offer a link for an in-depth guide to really using the search functionality.
Different levels of pushiness might be desired, ranging from on-demand bubbles to a daily or weekly suggestion dialog to turning the feature off completely. The point is to actually help people discover the features that make the OS great.
There are so many things where it seems you have to know to look for them, like search semantics or keyboard shortcuts for frequently performed tasks (win-char combinations, anyone?), that a feature to help discover other features would really be useful for a lot of people. Power users can turn them off or leave it on for discovery. Grandparents can almost always use the extra tips on the things that make the system easier to use.
Overall, I think a lot more could be done to showcase the things that make each new version of windows better. It hurts me inside, but Apple really does a good job at that. The user manual for the iPhone, from what I hear, is basically a guide for how to demo the machine for your friends. Everybody I knew that got it when it first came out seemed to say "Well, all I know how to do is look at this picture, turn the phone sideways and pinch it to zoom, but doesn't it look neat?"
Apple has a great following for a phone that never impressed me because they did a great job at making a couple things work well and look pretty (and let's face it, displaying images isn't very special by itself), and showing their customers how to show their friends.
I mean, there were too many people saying "man, my older-than-dust printer doesn't have updated drivers" or "Vista doesn't work with my video card". How great would it have been if they were saying something like "Isn't this cool? I can search for any program right here", "Watch this, I can find all my favorite music by typing 'songs with more than 4 stars' and THEN I can save the search and have it right there ready for me", or "Check this out, these popups make sure I know something's messing with the system, so I can stop malware and viruses before they do anything serious." If we taught people how to use all the amazing features that get put into the releases, rather than letting people focus on and get frustrated about things like the frequent UAC prompts, the overall attitude would be so different.
The old way of building windows kinda sounds like a huge mess to me... the new one sounds much better.
Maybe i misunderstood a part of the post but did the old way really force some features to be merged into the winmain branch even though they were not ready/tested completely yet? O_O
I hope that win7 will be much better than Vista & XP and will use less space on the HDD compared to Vista. As I understand it, Vista is taking so much space because all the drivers/language support packages etc get copied to the HDD so the user doesn't have to insert the DVD every time a component is installed. Please, please make it an option to NOT do this. I prefer to insert the windows DVD over having all the components i'll possibly never need occupy the space i could use for other things.
Hey I thought you'd talk in general about audio instead of this, although this was an interesting read. (Milestones 2 and 3 did ship with under-the-hood features!!!, only thing ppl could do is post UI screenshots). Coming back to audio, I just hope your teams build something new for MIDI and USB interfaces and audio pros in Windows 7. (The pro audio area has been somewhat neglected by Microsoft and although Vista introduced WaveRT, it only supports PCI devices). And something new with HTPC and gaming audio as well. (Make XAudio 2 part of the OS).
Great to see engineers participating in this blog(go Larry, go!!) It's just awesome that senior Windows executives are so engaged here (and Sinofsky's writings are excellently written, informative and unusually candid.)
More devs on Engineering Windows please!
Thankyou for some insight into the process of developing Win7.
The current development process is very similar to the one that I am familiar with in my limited experiences as a developer. I must say that I have found that environment much less stressful and more productive then some of the other models.
What happens though with features that are not ready by the launch? Do they just disappear? Are they released later as an update or as part of a service pack?
This is excellent stuff, and I'll bet Windows 7 is a great OS, just like Vista before it.
Thanks for keeping us informed, these posts have really got me excited for what you'll be posting in the future on specific technologies.
MS is truly responsible for the dream of 'a PC in every house' coming true, I hope when Windows 7 is done and the press is falling over themselves to praise it, you guys take a nice, well deserved vacation. :)
Another great post, thanks!
It sounds like the building of Windows 7 is much more dynamic than previously, and that sounds like a good thing. I'm really pleased to hear that it could essentially be shipped today and all features would be complete and tested, even if the OS was not as complete as everyone might want.
I love Vista, but there's an excitement around 7 that I just can't escape...
See a lot of talk about features which is nice but what about core OS? are we getting vista with different and more features? Hopefully this time they are actually useful!
I have been myself on the short milestone model for a while and it is a model that I don't feel it can work for the long term. There are important changes that seem impossible to fit in, and they never get done. Then each discipline starts looking for workarounds when the other disciplines are busy and not looking (devs implementing "stealth" rearchitecture, PMs steamrolling tasks in the schedule, etc). In the end you have a team that works like a person with multiple personality disorder where the disparity in perception of reality (and tensions because of it) just keeps growing. I'm not sure how it will blow up but I'm almost sure it will. Of course, I may be wrong and a reorg will save the day when someone believing in a completely different model gets put at the helm and a new process model (that probably doesn't work for the long term either) gets implemented
back in the old Win 3.0 days Windows was innovative, with a capital 'i'. It made computers easier to use and more powerful simply by being there. Then 3.1, WfWg, Win '95, Win '98, and Win 2000 all showed vast measurable improvements over their predecessor. People _WANTED_ to upgrade, because it meant "more". XP was only slightly disappointing, but still had enough eye candy, hardware support, and '9x compatibility to get a general thumbs up.
But then... along came ".Net". What was already working well just _HAD_ to be re-invented, and in a bass-ackwards way that made everything that ran with it INEFFICIENT out of the gate (by comparison to what it would have been like). Never mind that senior developers such as myself were _NOW_ faced with the prospect of having to 'learn it all again' (so that we could become JUNIOR developers again, thanks a lot). It was, in my view, the beginning of a disaster waiting to happen.
Products generally go through a life cycle. In the beginning there is REVOLUTIONARY change, where early adopters get on board but that's about it. Then there's INNOVATION, which puts the product into the hands of the power users and early adopters. Then there's the "mass market" which puts the technology into everyone's hands. But without another development cycle of revolutionary change and TRUE innovation, you get _DECLINE_. This is what Vista is doing.
Lessons to be learned:
1. TRUE INNOVATION. Why can't I speak to my computer like they do on Star Trek? Why must I mousie-clickie _everything_ at a rate that is sometimes 10 times slower than it would be by just typing it (like MS-DOS)?
2. FASTER and BETTER (not SLOWER and MORE CUMBERSOME)
3. Eye candy is for SALES/MARKETING execs (regular folk just think it's gaudy and unnecessary). Eye candy doesn't sell OSs and Software.
4. What about the "Killer App" concept? Us developers were _SUPPOSED_ to be the reason Windows was successful! Back to the '.Net' gripe on THIS one...
5. Computer users aren't idiots. They don't need condescending menus and terms. 'Nuff said.
Bob, well said. I think we need to stop innovating and just focus on what we know best.
"BigBadBombasticBob: 1. TRUE INNOVATION. Why can't I speak to my computer like they do on Star Trek? Why must I mousie-clickie _everything_ at a rate that is sometimes 10 times slower than it would be by just typing it (like MS-DOS)?"
You can control Vista using by using your voice
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89364705472396346342016-02-04T15:20:36.091-05:00The Denarii TraderA daytrader trying to make a "days wage".Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-31721363346651642082015-06-19T11:07:00.001-04:002015-06-19T11:07:44.662-04:00May 2015 ResultsTrades: 16
Winners: 10
Losers: 34
Break evens: 3
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Total Gains: $404.00
Total Losses: $-700
Avg Gain: $40.40
Avg Loss: $-233.33
Biggest Gain: $50.00
Biggest Loss: $550.00
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Trade Net: $-296.00
Commissions: -$83.96
Short term Trading Net: $-379.96
Month Net: $-379.96
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I was very happy with my futures trading this month. What killed my month was I gave out on an option play i had been rolling for months and took a $550 loss on. Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-18225356765662156762015-06-14T13:36:00.001-04:002015-06-14T13:37:09.362-04:00April 2015 ResultsTrades: 40
Winners: 16
Losers: 14
Break evens: 10
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Total Gains: $736.50
Total Losses: $-637.50
Avg Gain: $46.03
Avg Loss: $-45.54
Biggest Gain: $99.00
Biggest Loss: $100.00
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Trade Net: $99.00
Commissions: -$186.95
Short term Trading Net: $-87.95
Month Net: $-87.95
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This was a month of back and forth. I started trading much better after the 15th but still have the big problem of letting the trades work. If I sat on my hands after the 15th - I would have been 16-4 and had a nice couple of weeks. So what happened on the 15th? I do not know. The 14th was a real bad day for me and if you took away just that day - I would have had an up month. Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-83889791103750728072015-06-05T08:12:00.001-04:002015-06-05T08:12:11.109-04:00March 2015 ResultsTrades: 21
Winners: 15
Losers: 20
Break evens: 6
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Total Gains: $966.0
Total Losses: $-737.50
Avg Gain: $46.00
Avg Loss: $-36.88
Biggest Gain: $459.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: $153.50
Commissions: -$257.40
Short term Trading Net: $-103.90
Month Net: $-103.90
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Slowly I am getting away from too much options trading and trying to focus on ES trading. Not a good month even thou I was close to break even. After closely looking at my trades, way too many of them I would have graded poor. In fact only 17 trades, i was happy with my entry and exit. That number should be at 80-90 percent for me to be at the level I want to be.Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-43567394545992786332015-05-16T19:06:00.001-04:002015-05-16T19:06:49.657-04:00February 2015 ResultsTrades: 33
Winners: 15
Losers: 12
Break evens: 6
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Total Gains: $917.50
Total Losses: $-4,145.20
Avg Gain: $61.17
Avg Loss: $-345.43
Biggest Gain: $360.00
Biggest Loss: $3632.70
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Trade Net: $-3,190.20
Commissions: -$227.17
Short term Trading Net: $-3417.37
Month Net: $-3417.37
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I bit the bullet on a S&P strangle trade that I had been rolling over since September. If I had not screwed up on managing the trade - the loss would have been a lot smaller.
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It is hard to look at this month and say it was a good month. Remove the strangle trade and I would have been up $300 on the month. That also includes I had dug myself a $300 hole in the frist couple of trade so the rest of the month was good for me. But still it seems silly to say you had a good month losing over $3400.
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The only saving grace is that the IRA does mark to market on commodity option trades so most of this loss landed on last years tax return. Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-14846761532793262252015-05-13T22:18:00.001-04:002015-05-13T22:18:32.298-04:00January 2015 ResultsTrades: 33
Winners: 16
Losers: 13
Break evens: 4
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Total Gains: $1,290.00
Total Losses: $-680.00
Avg Gain: $80.63
Avg Loss: $-52.31
Biggest Gain: $460.00
Biggest Loss: $100.00
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Trade Net: $610.00
Commissions: -$155.65
Short term Trading Net: $454.35
Month Net: $454.35
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Nice way to start off the year. Had a couple of big option winners (selling premium) . Still never frustrated with my futures trading. Had too many WTFWIT trades. Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-9048379086100746362015-05-10T21:24:00.001-04:002015-05-10T21:24:06.047-04:00December 2014 ResultsTrades: 26
Winners: 10
Losers: 11
Break evens: 5
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Total Gains: $657.70
Total Losses: $-1,137.50
Avg Gain: $65.75
Avg Loss: $-103.41
Biggest Gain: $87.00
Biggest Loss: $300.0
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Trade Net: $-480.00
Commissions: -$157.74
Short term Trading Net: -$637.74
Month Net: -$637.74
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This was not a good month in either trading results or mental capital. I had a two day period where I lost about $1000 and did some stupid things. One of them I had a computer issue that allowed me to enter a position 3 times larger than normal. So instead of hitting the get me out button once I saw what happened - I decided to let it ride and take a major lose. Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-2092368449814017592014-11-30T11:45:00.002-05:002014-11-30T11:45:48.401-05:00I did not go away. Summary of the recent results.Just a bad case of laziness (also busy at work, and a few vacations). I just posted my results for the last 3 months. I still journal all my trades nearly on a daily basis. I highly recommend it to everyone who trades. I still rate my trades for entry, exit and anything I during the trade. I color code the results and the ratings so anyone looking at the spread sheet can see if I am doing good or bad at a simple look.
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I had a bit of a mental melt down during the last week of September and the first two weeks of October. I had a small gain going into that period and decided to go big and it really messed me up.
By the time mid October was here, I had dig myself a big hole both in money and mental stress.
At that point, I went thru the "why am I doing this" once again phase that I have gone thru so many times. And once again I slapped myself and got my shit together and nearly turned it into a winning month.
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Since that time, I have been doing well. Novembers big numbers are a combination of short term trades and a longer term swing I sold for a nice profit.
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It is frustrating to sit knowing I have a setup method that is good enough to produce 80% winners using a one point ES target and a two point stop loss. So that even if I did not try to manage the trade, I should make money - (8 * 50 = 400 minus 2 * 100 = 200 total plus 200 take out 45 for commissions and the net is 145).
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Once in a while you cut your lossers before the two point stop, and you add contracts allowing some once in a while to run more than the one point goal and you are even making more money.
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The bottom line is, the system does not need to be changed, there is enough money in the account to do the trading, so the only thing left is to fix the mind.
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I wonder how many traders know that they have a winning system but not a winning mind.

Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-42048389552468469842014-11-30T11:13:00.001-05:002014-11-30T11:13:08.130-05:00November 2014 ResultsTrades:14
Winners: 9
 Losers: 4
Break evens:1
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Total Gains: $2,013.50
Total Losses: $-162.50
Avg Gain: $223.72
Avg Loss: $-40.63
Biggest Gain: $1,274.00
Biggest Loss: $100.00
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Trade Net: $1,851.00
Commissions: -$108.87
Short term Trading Net: $322.44
Month Net: $1,742.13Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-67403250517679777092014-11-30T11:03:00.000-05:002014-11-30T11:03:08.995-05:00October 2014 ResultsTrades:27
Winners: 13
Losers: 11
Break evens:3
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Total Gains: $1,201.50
Total Losses: $-1,261.25
Avg Gain: $92.42
Avg Loss: $-114.66
Biggest Gain: $160.00
Biggest Loss: $683.75
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Trade Net: -$117.75
Commissions: -$152.54
Short term Trading Net: -$270.29
Month Net: $-270.29Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-45562048208280255412014-11-30T10:59:00.000-05:002014-11-30T10:59:44.099-05:00September 2014 ResultsTrades:31
Winners: 12
 Losers: 12
Break evens:7
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Total Gains: $1,196.00
Total Losses: $-937.50
Avg Gain: $99.67
Avg Loss: $-78.13
Biggest Gain: $440.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: $258.50
Commissions: $182.82
Short term Trading Net: $75.68
Month Net: $75.68Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-63263612968268486622014-09-14T10:25:00.000-04:002014-09-14T10:26:30.073-04:00August 2014 resultsTrades:36
Winners: 17
 Losers: 12
Break evens:7
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Total Gains: $749.50
Total Losses: $-612.50
Avg Gain: $44.06
Avg Loss: $-51.04
Biggest Gain: $125.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: $136.50
Commissions: -$177.01
Short term Trading Net: -$40.51
Month Net: $-40.51
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I had one really bad week this month that I seemed to not be able to do anything right. A couple of really bad trading decisions and it was the worst week since January for me. Even thou I dug a big hole for myself, I nearly got back to even with a very solid last week of the month.
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I am thankful we are now back in September and the volume is much higher with most of the players back. I was on vacation the first week of September so I hope to be really refreshed for the month.
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One step at a time. Anyone who reads this blog and wants to learn from a great trade a very simple system - should go to eminimoney.com.Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-77458518875513636322014-08-03T10:11:00.002-04:002014-09-14T10:26:49.307-04:00July 2014 ResultsTrades:36
Winners: 16
 Losers: 14
Break evens:6
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Total Gains: $726.50
Total Losses: $-900.00
Avg Gain: $45.41
Avg Loss: $-64.29
Biggest Gain: $100.00
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: -$173.50
Commissions: -$193.62
Short term Trading Net: -$367.12
Month Net: $-367.12
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This has not a good month at all for me but on the bright side even totally screwing it up I only lost $367. I chased the market a hand full of times that were trades no where near my trading plan. Just on those trades alone cost me about $800 turning a positive month into a losing month.
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This scenario happened too many times this month. I would miss two or three trades by a tick or two, then chase the market and lose big. Then I would skip the next trade (usually an easy one) and follow it up by ending my day missing another trade by a tick or two.
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I trades i log here fall into one of fours types - long term stock swings (months), short term stock trades (days), selling option premiums (either naked or on my long-term swings), and futures trading. Futures trading makes up 90% plus of my trades and of those trades - 95% of those are tradings the ES.
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The futures trading has a couple of simple rules using breaking levels, a couple of moving averages and stochastics. Nothing really insane. The basic idea is to be winners on 80% of the trades with an initial goal of 4 ticks and a stop loss of 8 ticks. The math works out make $100 on 5 trades.
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This month if I sat on my hands - I made 34 futures trades. 22 of them went to the first target of 4 ticks and 12 did not. Say if I trade 2 contracts on each trade - I would have made $2200 on the first target and lost $2400 on the ones that did not. I chased the market 5 times this month where if I waited to get in at the correct time for my rules - 4 out of the 5 would not have gotten stopped before hitting initial target. This changes the math to making $2600 on the first target and losing $1600 on the stop outs for a profit of $1000 before commissions. Not a bad month. The 26 verse 8 gets much closer the 80% win rate. A course you can sometimes get out of a losing trade before the 8 tick stop out and some of the winning trades you might cut short because of how much time it is taking.
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So August is another month and I already made the chasing mistake yesterday. My goal this month is to wait for my entry and see how much money I can make.
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I finally feel like I have a true trading plan to make money with - now I just have to get the mental game under control.

Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-28359801192116357472014-07-02T14:42:00.001-04:002014-07-02T14:42:17.674-04:00June 2014 ResultsTrades:35
Winners: 19
 Losers: 12
Break evens:5
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Total Gains: $1281.00
Total Losses: $-1037.50
Avg Gain: $67.42
Avg Loss: $-86.46
Biggest Gain: $417.00
Biggest Loss: $271.00
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Trade Net: +243.50
Commissions: -$184.96
Short term Trading Net: +$58.54
Month Net: $+58.54
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Another small gain for me but a really screwed up month in trading. I had some great trades I am proud of and some really fucked up trades also.
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As I stated before, I grade each of my trades for entry and exit with either good, stupid or chicken. My ratio of good to stupid had been about 5 to 1 recently. This month it was 2 to 1 and I really wonder how I made money this month. I had 3 stupid trades that cost me the majority of my losses. I can have a good graded trade and loss money on it as long as I follow my rules. Same with a stupid trade, I could make money but it still could be graded stupid if I broke my rules.
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I continue to be happy with my slow but steady progress in my trading but I have to become more consistence with my rules. I seem to get in most of the times following my rules but too many times I am still chickening out too early.
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27 of my trades went to my first target and only 8 did not, so I should have had 27 out of 35 winners instead had only 20 winners and of those only 11 to target. If I traded my entries and exits to plan - my gain this month would have been $1800. Add to that I missed about 20 trades and my size should be 5 times bigger - you can understand what my final goal in for me. I will get there one day.Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-72785290619065869272014-06-01T16:15:00.000-04:002014-06-01T16:16:07.953-04:00May Results 2014Trades: 22
Winners: 14
 Losers: 5
 Break evens:3
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Total Gains: $1376.00
Total Losses: $-355.50
Avg Gain: $98.29
Avg Loss: $-71.10
Biggest Gain: $285.00
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: +1020.50
Commissions: -$130.49
Short term Trading Net: +$890.01
Month Net: -$367.02
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This is a month where my accounting gets confusing. I basicly been posting my results of my day trading accounts but over time I have had some multi-year swings positions in them also. Add to that late last year, I started selling premium which some of those trades have lasted for weeks.
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So if you just take my day trading of futures, my very short term stock trades (a few days at most) and my selling of option premiums - I had an up month. If you want to include the stock I sold for a two year loss - I had a down month. These stocks I own for years in my short term trading accounts are to generate dividends which I have not included in the stats above.
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Any way in my mind and how I look at my trading - May was a winner for me and the fourth up month in a row for me. This process was been like turning a huge ship around and I can only hope I have made that turn. Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-75998494567645298062014-05-04T07:27:00.001-04:002014-05-04T07:27:18.540-04:00April Results 2014Trades: 25
Winners: 13
 Losers: 7
 Break evens:5
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Total Gains: $1187.50
Total Losses: $-475.50
Avg Gain: $91.35
Avg Loss: $67.86
Biggest Gain: $359.00
Biggest Loss: $162.50
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Trade Net: +712.50
Commissions: -$155.37
Day Trading Net: +$557.13
Month Net: +$557.13
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On the surface, this looks like a good month. All the stats are the way i like them - more wins than losses, and the average win bigger than the average loss but it was a lot crazier than I would have like. I had my first mental breakdown day were on 3 trades I lost $300. That was my first crazy day since last year I am glad it only cost me $300. Second item for the month, my biggest gain was playing an IPO break out. Something I seldom do. Third, I had an order entry screw up where I wanted to trade one crude contract but somehow entered 6. Lucky I got out with a small profit once I say my mistake.
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Work is getting busier and busier so I have a feeling my trading is going to be limited going forward.
I wish I was doing this succussfully full time and blogging more.
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I am very happy with most of my entries. It is with the exits I am still having problems with. I put a trade on and it goes no where for 5 minutes so I jump out with a tick or two of gain or loss only to see it then move to target. But all in all, I have had 3 1/2 months of in the black trading. i might be on to something. Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-6174822132763154752014-05-04T07:06:00.001-04:002014-05-04T07:10:05.962-04:00March Results 2014Trades: 30
Winners: 19
 Losers: 10
 Break evens:1
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Total Gains: $1021.25
Total Losses: $-327.50
Avg Gain: $53.75
Avg Loss: $32.75
Biggest Gain: $164.00
Biggest Loss: $120.00
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Trade Net: +693.75
Commissions: -$148.50
Day Trading Net: +$545.25
Month Net: +$545.25
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A very solid month for me. Only one major screw up. Average win bigger than average loss. Good Job all around. I wish all months were like this. Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-83051449160376212212014-03-02T17:40:00.001-05:002014-03-02T17:40:12.512-05:00February 2014 resultsTrades: 21
Winners: 14
 Losers: 4
 Break evens:3
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Total Gains: $567.00
Total Losses: $-185.00
Avg Gain: $40.50
Avg Loss: $46.25
Biggest Gain: $102.00
Biggest Loss: $62.50
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Trade Net: +382.00
Commissions: -$116.35
Day Trading Net: +$265.65
Month Net: +$265.65
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Did something different this month - made a profit.
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For the last two months, I have been working with JC at http://www.eminimoney.com/ and doing better. It is like watching the Titanic turn around but it is nice to finally have a month in the black.
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I seem to trade the ES and Soybean markets better than the Russell, crude and Euro. My win ratio was the best even and at some level it pisses me off my last two trades of the month were losers. Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-87801965064102826352014-02-02T13:06:00.001-05:002014-02-02T13:06:11.573-05:00January 2014 ResultsTrades:17
Winners:5
 Losers:9
 Break evens:3
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Total Gains: $448.50
Total Losses: $660.00
Avg Gain: $89.70
Avg Loss: $73.33
Biggest Gain: $162.50
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: -$211.50
Commissions: -$158.38
Day Trading Net: -$369.88
Month Net:-$369.88
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Not a good start to the year. So many mental mistakes, it is not funny. I traded like a two year old on too much sugar. I am very happy the damage to my account was little. I got lucky on one trade were my entry was slipped by 3 ticks but my exit was slipped by 5 ticks - go figure.
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I rate my trades in different ways but I gave myself 6 "good" marks, 7 "stupid" marks and 9 "chicken" marks. To make the amount of money I would like to make - I believe the ratio in a month should be 80% "good", 10% "stupid" and 10% "chicken". This does not count the amount of unfilled orders where the ratings are missing. I need to log those also somehow.
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Basicly what I mean by these terms are:
GOOD = win or loss - good setup and followed trading plan.
STUPID = win or loss - bad setup or chased market
CHICKEN = win or loss - good setup but did not follow trading plan
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I think everyone should look at their trades in great detail to learn from them. Maybe one day I will learn from my own.Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-271224432851895162014-01-05T11:48:00.000-05:002014-01-05T11:48:44.991-05:00Year 2013 results - sort ofI always wonder how to sum of the yearly results. I like to look at them many ways. If you do not include fees (other than commissions) from the brokers I used and factor in the outstanding swings I have - I made $847.24 - this includes dividends but I feel this year sucked for me.
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Winning months (including commissions): 3
Losing months: 9.
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One big swing made: $3606.00
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total dividends: $1427.00
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My day trading nets: - 4185.76 (second worst year for me).
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Total commissions: 2685.93
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I am sitting on two swings and there value did not change much comparing this year to last but the one I am holding at a 8,000 loss. The other is at a 3,000 gain.
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I am just glad this year is over. Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-70014502300183422872014-01-04T07:53:00.003-05:002014-01-04T07:54:10.219-05:00December 2013 ResultsTrades:11
Winners:4
Losers:6
Break evens:1
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Total Gains: $289.00
Total Losses: $539.50
Avg Gain: $72.25
Avg Loss: $89.92
Biggest Gain: $114.00
Biggest Loss: $200.00
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Trade Net: -$250.50
Commissions: -$80.24
Day Trading Net: -$330.74
Month Net:-$330.74
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Did not trade much this month. Trying to work on a new idea. I am using way too many indciators and crap on my charts. Trying to just look at lot less.
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One trade this month sticks in my side. The employment numbers caused big moves on the 6th. I had 3 setups firing off at the same time- crude, euro and S&P. I did not know which one to pick. I have picked them all. I have the account size to do it. Instead I only picked the EURO. The S&P moved $800 and crude moved $1400 in the right direction. The Euro on its first attempt did not make it and stopped me for a $200 loss but on the second attempt it moved over $500. I did not have the guts to take the second trade.
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Botton line is I should have taken all four trades and made over $2500 for the day. Instead I chickened out and sat with a $200 loss - the story of of this years trading for me. Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-24922631440930492992013-11-27T15:32:00.003-05:002013-11-27T15:32:41.173-05:00November 2013 ResultsTrades:16
Winners:8
Losers:6
Break evens:1
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Total Gains: $424.00
Total Losses: $437.00
Avg Gain: $53.00
Avg Loss: $72.83
Biggest Gain: $130.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: -$13.00
Commissions: -$110.01
Day Trading Net: -$123.01
Month Net:-$123.01Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-67076512860979449002013-11-04T15:28:00.000-05:002013-11-27T15:40:54.031-05:00October 2013 resultsTrades:23
Winners:11
Losers:10
Break evens:2
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Total Gains: $746.00
Total Losses: $714.00
Avg Gain: $67.82
Avg Loss: $71.40
Biggest Gain: $220.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: $32.00
Commissions: -$182.56
Day Trading Net: -$150.56
Month Net:-$150.56Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-24634497180720706802013-10-07T15:23:00.000-04:002013-11-27T15:41:15.472-05:00September 2013 resultsTrades: 27
Winners: 9
Losers:12
Break evens: 5
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Total Gains: $637.02
Total Losses: $1225.50
Avg Gain: $70.88
Avg Loss: $102.13
Biggest Gain: $200.00
Biggest Loss: $150.00
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Trade Net: -$588.48
Commissions: -$247.52
Day Trading Net: -$836.00
Month Net:-$836Denariihttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-11463287820373888012013-09-22T11:26:00.000-04:002013-09-22T11:26:27.561-04:00This Week In Nov BeansHow I looked at the Beans this week. My trades are also the charts with my missed trades I saw as the action happened. Bottom line is this should have been a good week for me based on how I look at charts.

Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-8936470547239634634.post-7556516823189436822013-09-14T13:38:00.002-04:002013-09-14T13:38:56.094-04:00I am not dead yet.This has been a crazy summer for me with a bunch of vacations and work going nuts at the wrong times. I have not given up and I hope to publish my thoughts more often. I have been tradings a lot of beans recently using the break of the opening range. So far I have not been that successful.Denariihttp://firstname.lastname@example.com

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Okay, we normally never have more than 20cm of snow.
An just today, for the first time in years I took a car to work, but that is a different story.
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All new strips start with January 1, 2015 on the website. 2015 strips will appear in Volume 6 and on the website, day by day (five times a week, Monday through Friday). So the January 29, 2015 strip will appear on the same day in 2016.
We go to print in May for a June delivery.
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|The genetic basis of autism has been well established. In addition to changes in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) structure, other modifications, such as methylation or histone acetylation, may change gene expression in the absence of heritable mutations in DNA. Previous studies have indicated that environmental toxicants can influence gene expression through epigenetic mechanisms. Dr. Jiang has been working with a strain of mouse which have mutations in both SHANK 3 and Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), both implicated in autism spectrum disorder. He hypothesizes a link between folic acid and DNA methylation of SHANK3, producing abnormal gene expression. His lab will use this animal model to study whether administration of folic acid will increase 5-methylenetetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) and cause DNA hypermethylation of synaptic proteins like SHANK3. Changes in the methylation status of these genes would not change the structure but may change the function of the gene such that differing levels of protein are produced, altering brain function and synaptic plasticity. Folic acid has been proven to reduce the incidence of major birth defects and is an important component of prenatal vitamins; however, this study will examine whether some mothers may be vulnerable to high doses of folic acid due to genetic variants of this pathway.
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Question:How long was your recovery of your knee arthroscopy procedure?
Comment from: 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: March 27
I had arthroscopic surgery on January 27, 2015. After one week of physiotherapy (PT), my surgeon ordered a series of 3 shots into my knee. I have had 6 weeks of PT and I am still in a lot of pain. My doctor said everything has been corrected. My age of 61 and the fact that I have bursitis, osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia will make it take a long time to heel. He suggested going to a pain specialists. I haven't decided to do that yet.
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I am 44 years old and am an Ultra-Trail. I had a fall/ twist to my knee that caused a medial meniscus tear 9 months ago. My knee pain was only aggravated by running. I wasn't ready to quit being a runner. It was not healing so I had arthroscopic surgery to trim and partially remove my medial meniscus. I walked from the wheel chair to my vehicle. I have been walking without aid for 6 days now and don't have any unusual pain. There was a lot of fluid the first two days and that kept me off the stairs on day 1 post operation. I though there was a gel pack in my bandage at first. I used 4 pain pills the first 2 days and I could have gotten by without them on the 2nd day, but it helped me sleep better on my couch with my leg elevated and iced up every 30 minutes. I iced it a lot the first 2 days. I also kept moving my foot and doing light leg extensions a lot the first 3 days. I would hold the extension and contract my quad muscles slightly just to keep things working but not to irritate the surgery. I never did anything to cause myself pain. I am a mechanic in a factory and I believe I could have been back to work on day 4 but I have to be released after my follow up and they remove the stitches on Thursday which will be 6 days post operation. So far I have nothing bad to say about having the surgery. I frequent the gym regularly so I was building up leg strength before my surgery. Running was the only thing that irritated it before surgery. I am at least where I was before my surgery best as I can tell. I have no reason at this time to think I will not be running again in a few weeks. My surgery was an outpatient procedure. I am not taking pain medicines. The only thing I have to take for 6 weeks is aspirin because of the risk of blood clots after surgery. I am sorry for all of you who have had troubles from the surgery but it's not all gloom and doom.
Comment from: Julie, 65-74 Female (Patient) Published: March 12
I am 66 years of age and I had knee arthroscopy for torn meniscus four months ago. I'm in dreadful pain since having the operation, stiffness and tightness right all the way down the leg. I would never have it done again.
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I had key-hole surgery (arthroscopy) in my knee at the end of January 2015. It went very well and I have had no problems since. The swelling took about 3 weeks to go down, I had 2 incisions one on either side of my knee and had one stitch in each. It is still early days and I am just about regaining my confidence to take all my weight on my repaired knee. I can't kneel down yet as there is still some stiffness and tenderness. I am walking just fine and climbing stairs ok. I am at a loss as to what they did as no details were given to me or my general physician. I have a follow up appointment on the 1st of April so I will ask all the questions then.
Comment from: Never Had Pain, 65-74 Male (Patient) Published: February 17
I'm 65 years old. I had a torn medial meniscus on my right knee. Arthroscopic surgery was done. When I woke up from anesthesia, I was able to get right up and go to the rest room. I was given a walker but I never used it or needed it. They gave me a cane and were teaching how to go up and down the stairs with it. I didn't need it. I never experienced any pain. I'm taking it easy until I see my doctor in two weeks. I thought that I would have a bad one or two weeks, but no problem walking and no pain or swelling. Good surgeons are worth their weight in gold!
Comment from: mediocregolfer, 75 or over Female (Patient) Published: February 04
It has been nine weeks since my arthroscopic surgery for a meniscus tear. The surgeon also found a hole in the cartilage on the femur and trimmed the edges. There is moderate arthritis. I had physical therapy for a month and am still doing stretches on my own. The knee can be very, very stiff in the morning and hurts at different places on different days. I have returned to golf but use a cart. I can walk about 20 minutes. I like being active at 75 years and am distressed at the lack of progress. I hope the knee improves.
Comment from: Emapeal, 55-64 Female (Patient) Published: December 10
I had a lateral tear in my meniscus in my left knee. I had arthroscopic surgery on a Tuesday and only needed crutches to get up the steps into my townhouse. I started the exercises the doctor gave me that same day. I only took pain pills for one day. By Friday, I was able to walk up and down a flight of stairs. On Saturday, I walked my dog (very short walk). By Sunday I drove my car and shopped for an hour. I started physical therapy (PT) 9 days after the surgery and went two times a week. Within 4 weeks, I had full range of motion. I also continued with PT for 6 weeks to regain strength.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. -- Leon Washington jump-started the New York Jets' running game with his shifty moves and gamebreaking speed.
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Here's a blind bag I painted to look like Derpy Hooves. She's painted with enamel paints. She's going to be sold on EBay to help pay for my stupid credit card T_T; I'd love to keep her, I love how she turned out...
I am accepting commissions! Please send me a note if interested!
I am accepting commissions! Please send me a note if interested!
i love these figures
Today I picked up a blindbag Lilly Blossum to make into my own Derpy. I hope mine turns out as well as yours, I'm most concerned with getting the eyes right, as that could make or break it...
Love it!
Love it!
how tall are these blind bad ponys
D: i wish i had seen it soon enough to buy it!! DX
I do accept commissions, note me if interested ^^
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I buy them off my friend who lives in Germany. The UK gets everything last T_T;
How much would that be to ship to the US? Oh, that's right. Way too much.
A Dash or a Derpy? It depends how the figure is shipped, since it's all done by weight ^^
Either way, it's still too much to ship overseas. But I heard some were found here in the states at overstock markets, so I suppose I'll probe around there for a while. :/
Imagine how I must feel with shipping, no ponies in the UK X_X Ah well September is almost here! That'll be awesome, hopefully my debt will be gone so I can enjoy them ^^ PLUS! My birthday is in Sept!
Well, with the way the eBay bidding is going (with me continually winding up outbid) I suspect you'll be getting plenty of cash for good ol' Derpy. ^_^
Trust me I badly need it X_X Credit cards suuuuck
Which is why I've been doing my utmost to avoid getting one, myself. ^_^
Gosh darnit! I keep getting outbid!!! >_<
Gosh darnit! I keep getting outbid!!! >_<
I love it! Definitely bidding. ^_^
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Yesterday I went to a fabulous presentation on board governance hosted by Katten Muchin in Chicago. The speaker was Baruch Lev from NYU. He covered a wide range of issues that I was interested in. Mr. Lev received his PhD from the University of Chicago. Like a good professor, he taught me something. I thought I would relay his information for the benefit of the broader community.
There are several good reasons for investor discontent. We have had the worst stock market decade since the Great Depression. America has witnessed a parade of corporate implosions and accounting scandals. We have seen stock option manipulation, and cases of executive compensation excesses. New technology has brought us a flash crash and dark pools of liquidity.
The reaction of investors has varied. What's alarming is that they have begin to desert the equities market in droves. This hampers market transparency and is detrimental to building wealth in a society. Sentiment has allowed lawmakers to pass costly and restrictive laws like Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. Additionally, the SEC has amended securities regulation to allow Say On Pay, proxy contests and "vote no" on directors. Hedge funds have been able to use these new regulations to intervene in board composition, corporate strategy and manager's pay. CEO's are shackled.
Even though the sands of investor sentiment are shifting, internally life inside companies is business as usual. That can be a dangerous, and strategic mistake.
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