Tuesday, December 30, 2008

It Feels Good to be Back!

I traded for the first time in more than a year, today! 

It feels so good to be back even though I didn’t execute any trade.  I was still getting myself accustom to this forgotten environment again. 

There are 2 new things that I tried today.  First is using FinViz as a screener, while the second is using Twitter to keep track of what I was monitoring this morning.

FinViz stands for Financial Visualization, if I’m not mistaken.  I’ve been using FinViz to keep up-to-date with how the 3 major indices are doing in the past year.  So this morning, I though I would give its Screener a try.  It turned out that I like it a lot, and I do believe that I will continue to use FinViz to screen for gappers.

As for Twitter, long time reader of my blog knows that I have Twitter gadget installed on my blog almost since day one.  I’ve always looked at Twitter as a micro-blogging tool, which is exactly what it is.  But today, as I Tweet on the stocks that I’m monitoring, I realized that at the end of the day, I can actually go back to Twitter to review all the stocks that I was monitoring, and maybe to find out if I’ve missed any good set-ups, or simply monitoring the wrong stocks.

With this though in mind, I might even expand Twitter’s real estate on my blog, to give it more exposure.  Since I can’t really ‘blog’ all the stocks that I monitor, in detail, I see Twitter as a good alternative.  If you haven’t added me onto your Twitter’s friend list, my User Name is simply ClosetDaytrader. 

Once again, it’s good to be back!  However, there will be no trading for the next 2 days, until the New Year. 

Happy New Year to you all!