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  FINVIZ – practice trade posts – January 2012

  In order:
  12/16/11
  ATI JAN 43 CALL bought at $3.60 currently at $3.90 ($4.00 would be 10% GTC)
  PH JAN 70 CALL @ 7.00 (currently $75.02) on bottom of BB. Looks bearish but similar chart as ATI and last year stock was bullish into the new year.

  BTW the PH & ATI D chart you show from qcharts looks exhausted for a PUT. It’s big sign shows DMI starting to move up. So are you saying on your practice trades you would trade puts as it moves up because historically it fell more? I think we will definitely know within two weeks if the market is going up or down (or at least we think we think). But your D chart shows it laying on the BB’s. I just wouldn’t be in Puts only there was long-term bad news on the stocks and I practicing it as if I know nothing about it – just technical.

  12/22/11
  sold ATI 43 JAN Calls @ 5.60 (+2.00 or 85%)
  if you sold your puts I believe Monday/Tuesday you should have been profitable but since down -2.00 it has gained +5.00 so I’d assume it’s trend will follow what I thought and now move up again.
  Bought QQQ FEB 54 Calls @ 2.89
  price $55.50 (mid-day expect it to continue uptrend – market is up trending for the week)
  Bought AAPL FEB 395 Calls @ $21.15 – christmas rally (moving qqq’s) apple has moved 20 pts in last 3 days and expect it to continue up to friday likely get out today or tomorrow morning – with this big move apple has actually broken a major daily downtrend with a big green candle

  12/29/11 – end of christmas rally 2011
  Sold QQQ FEB 54 Calls @ $3.15 (+.26 up 8%)
  Sold AAPL FEB 395 Calls @ 24.70 (+3.60 up 15%)
  Sold PH JAN 70 Calls @ 7.40 (+.40 up 5%)
  Christmas rally for end of Dec 11′ has been good. However PH seems weak and not moving with tech.
  From what I’ve watched all of NAS has moved into the positive. Tech sales are up.
  Currently I’m 5/0 (win/lose trades and up a total of 113%) Post some practice trades. I’ll post new ones after new year.

  1/4/12
  I think I’m going to practice two specific stocks because I think their stories will do them justice soon.
  First EA due to a new line of games that are selling extremely well, significantly the Madden 12′ game. It’s at a low and also being advertised to the public on CNBC with a high upside potential. Second, EBAY, due to the changing of its ecommerce site. It has changed a lot. Now there are more options to sell online in which it can be auction, buy now, rerserve, and online store (with longer amounts to sell a product). This increases the amount of sellers (buyers). It’s also at a low and “sold” to the public with upside. I think there is. I’ll put up some practice trades soon. I brought up two trading books you should read.

  1/6/12 – second week jan. practice trades after christmas rally
  The NAS January Barometer is positive. The first 5 days of the year were up in NAS. I compared AAPL with other big NAS stocks like NFLX, GOOG, PCLN, and AMZN and all are up at least +1% for the first five days. NFLX up the most +25% from better-than-expected streaming services – basically more people are renting from them again but for online services. They also are going to be producing their own $100 million series of shows + NFLX has been down 60% after the customer drop in Sept. So this is big news and a reason why it is being bought up again. It has earnings this month. Play CLOSE ATTENTION to the NFLX and AMZN chart since they have the most to gain being positive for the first 5 days in January. If investors psychologically see gains they could be pototential 100% gains – NFLX has already moved 25% in upside movement. AMZN’s daily chart shows a beginning uptrend into Jan. I’m doing a real $200 trade on NFLX into earnings. I also suggest we switching to my blog. I can change the settings to private like this if you prefer because when I post a chart here it just updates. Plus you can’t actively search old trades. I can’t say search on this page “aapl” and all my aapl trades come up. This is really useful if you actually journal your trades so you can see all your past practice trades. I’ll create you a private login and post it here.
  See link http://www.cnbc…xt%7C&par=yahoo

  Here are my practice trades for second week of Jan 1/6/12′:
  Buy QQQ FEB 55 CALL @ $3.41
  Buy AAPL FEB 420 CALL @ $18.25
  Buy NFLX FEB 85 CALL @ $10.00 (play – earnings is Jan 25th)
  Buy AMZN FEB 180 CALL @ $12.25
  Buy GOOG FEB 655 PUT @ $28.00 (received downgrade and has fell thur-fri so I expect it to continue the trend monday)
  Buy PCLN FEB 480 CALL @ $22.40 (play – earnings is Feb 20th)
  Buy GT FEB 20 CALL @ $3.10 (play – earnings is Feb 20th – plus GM is in the Top 5 stock picks for 2012 on CNBC which should increase buying)
  Buy EA FEB 18 CALL @ $2.26 (play – earnings is Jan 30th – plus chistmas gift money will go into buying games post-christmas on earnings)
  Buy EBAY FEB 30 CALL @ $1.82 (play – earnings is Jan 18th – plus post-christmas buying with gift money)

  1/9/12 – first year real money trade
  REAL MONEY TRADE: Bought NFLX JAN 105 CALL @ $1.42 (around $92 stock price at 11 AM) I know it is out of the money but my reasoning is that I only had $198 in my account. I wanted to buy FEB 90 Calls. Netflix going into the Europe markets is a big deal and the charts back it up. The chart seriously at least tell me that soon NFLX is poised to pop high I think in the 120′s possibly by earnings if investors back the CEO. They compare NFLX now to how AMZN invested heavily into its worldly infrastructure, however, AMZN if it was able to get all the movie/tv libraries would likely put NFLX out of business. I think what NFLX really has is that it is the big dog in its niche market of online streaming/dvd. Currently it is the biggest and it wants to be the Amazon of movies/tv/possible future of TV on your computer/new TV’s. So while this news is big I’m playing it and its upcomming earnings + the technicals look very good (so far). My option within the first 3 hours is up 100% @ $2.73. My sell target is no later than this Friday. BTW GOOG also continued its trend over the weekend as I thought it would. My short is up big. Post your practice trades. We lost our competition but we have a whole new year to try again.

  1/13/12
  OUCHIE. someone in GS just took a hit today! And I told myself to sell out of my NFLX calls by Friday (today), however, it dropped for the 2 past days. Within the first 3 hours on Monday I was up 100%. I’m officially retarded. I might break-even selling now. My calls expire on earnings. I’m staying in until Monday. I’m worst then retarded for creating dumb rules like, “wait until friday to move higher” when I could of took a fat profit for a first confidence intuitive trade of the new year. Damn.

  
  Filed under: trading stock options Tagged: jan 2012, january, NFLX JAN Call, paul, practice trades, real money trade

  14 days on
  Paul Phillip
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  28 days later…. finished my 50,000 words – NanoWriMo 2011 Winner! Plus Stock Market Competition

  For November, by chance, I came across this NanoWriMo.org novel challenge to write 50,000 words in 31 days for the month of November. How I come across these random things I end up applying myself to fully still seem to boggle my mind. However, I completed my 50,000 words in 28 days. I’m officially a NanoWriMo 2011 Winnter, well, for myself. It made me start actually believing I’m a writer. Ha Ha Ha. I’m also writing my postgraduate critical essays plus having to complete a 90+ page feature film script. All my professors ask me, “what about your school work? your reading?”, come on! I guess this where school and business get mixed up in my life. I personally would think it’s more valued and important to have a novel/non-fiction piece under your belt then write a dumb critical essay no one is ever going to see or is marketable as a product to sell! So now I have around 60 mini chapters of the most life changing pivotal points of my life completely typed out. It’s quite an accomplishment. I hope to turn it into fiction based book where the used can choose their own adventure within my life and possibly I might even offer some non-grim positive outcomes. I made it a goal to write 10,000 – 20,000 words a month for the next 6 months until I finish school. Why? I don’t know why. Scholars saying writing more each month makes you a better writer. I want to be a better writer because I’m usually, well, confusing to the crowd. For instance, I rarely get readers that realize I’m broke. Ha Ha Ha. Well, more like Donald Trump bankrupt broke.

  Okay, earlier in September 2011 my sister and I made a stock market trading competition with each other. I’m pretty sure she has won although she hasn’t talked to me. This brings me to conclusion that she has money still remaining in her account, however, she likely has still lost a lot of money. I on the other hand have lost my entire account once again. Well, I still have around $300 in an option in Sprint (S) in the money that expires in Jan 12′. That was a stupid trade. I’m glad I’m not a financial stock advisor. I’m not saying all my trades have been bad but just enough to continually wipe me out of existence. I told my sister we both need another extended break from Mr. Market. Take off a year and then come back with a different outlook. If you are doing horribly and can’t trade worth shit you should consider this as well. Practice and research makes perfect right? Hardly in these strange changing markets (at least recently after 2008).
  There are still patterns. It’s Election Year. I was 100% wrong about the rally going up in November. It just went sideways and fell. My QQQ option hit 100% on a few days but not enough for me to get out. Well, now its worth $0. My goal was QQQ to go over $60. It never did. It hit $59 but kept falling to 56/57 dollars. I wanted to hit myself with a frying pan every time it dropped because my intuition said it would jump again. I just kept missing opportunity after opportunity. I have no excuses. I give none. I just bombed on the trade. I sky dived, had a perfectly good parachute, and ripped it half way through the trade because #1 I was desperate for a big winning trade #2 I didn’t get out when I felt the stock wasn’t moving the way I planned #3 I bought into way out of the money options #4 number #3 broke every rule in the book!

  cheers, Paul

  
  Filed under: nanowrimo challenge 2011, qqq november calls, trading stock options Tagged: NanoWriMo 2011 Winner, qqq call option trade for november 2011, stock market competition with my sister

  ~1 month on
  Paul Phillip
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  I get an erie feeling this fall rally is losing steam.

  First. I’m surely at this point going to lose my trading competition with my sister. Every time the “market” hopes for the best and talks a good talk the rally runs for a few very good days. You think it will continue into the next week. It falls to where it started right when we were gradually moving in the right direction.

  If you look at the technicals either the market is losing steam or its falling back to move only higher. Although, with todays -3% plunge to nothing really. Sure Europe is dying but this has been a known fact for months. We know Greece and Italy have money problems. Who doesn’t have money problems. If investing is going more towards short trades instead of buy and hold then this type of actions and constant changing movements is going to drive me nuts. It’s great if you can day trade it being in and out within 2 market days. But if you just want to catch a movement and wait for the trade to line up and BANG! Too late. You missed the trade and it took your money. Well, that’s how I feel right now. All I can tell myself to do is START practicing again, practice these short bursts of constant mini fall and jumping rallies, and then once I can just watch the markets during the day trade with confidence (unless the markets change again).

  
  Filed under: trading stock options Tagged: fall rally losing team, november 2011, options trading, QQQ, stock market, wild swings in markets

  2 months on
  Paul Phillip
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  Little White Lie by Brooklyn Young Filmmakers

  

  Editor: Paul Phillip
  Produced/Directed by: Brooklyn Young Filmmakers
  See: byfc.org

  Cast: Paul Phillip and Trayce Gardner

  Tags: Brooklyn Young Filmmaking Center, Little White Lies, New York City, Inner City Youth Filmmakers and Brooklyn

  2 months on
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  Monday-Tuesday Trend & NanoWriMo 29 Day Novel Challenge to get me writing

  So I have been watching what happens on Monday-Tuesday trends and it seems like a regular trend if on Monday is very positive for the most part it follows up to Wednesday and this also applies if Monday falls. I’ve seen this happen a lot and have traded off this patter many times. However, what I’m a bit confused about is this October 2011 rally. It has gone up so quick as they say it should come down just as hard. I figured with the up movement and the majority market buying up we would have a very good November 2011. I still think we will, but usually the first of the month are positive days due to be portfolios buying them in the beginning of the month. I think this Greece news is bullshit. We are already affected by our own problems here in America. We will survive without Greece. If by the end of this week this current -5% hard down isn’t recovered we may see a profit taking unhappy Thanksgiving including my call options which are in the red again expiring worthless.

  So I somehow stumbled upon NanoWriMo which is the yearly Novel writing quest for the month of November. Basically you try to write 50,000 words in 29 days and whatever comes out of that. I’ve had a funny business book idea for awhile so I’m trying my best to type it all up and get it published for young adult entrepreneurs. It is going to be a cartoon-comic styled storytelling novel of my complete chaos and future fictional success.

  For more information check out http://www.nanowrimo.org/

  
  Filed under: trading stock options Tagged: monday tuesday trends, NanoWriMo writer, november 2010 call options, november falls, october 2011 rally, QQQ

  2 months on
  Paul Phillip
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  I sleep over 12 hours a day. Is there something wrong with me? Yes.

  So I sleep in around 12-15 hours a day. Since there are only 24 hours in a day I’m actually only consciously currently living realistically only around 8-12 hours of the day. I moved to Scotland to get out of New York City. Everyone I call and talk to tell me how excited and fun they would think it would be. I didn’t even really think that way when I considered moving her on a spontaneous random whim. I really don’t understand myself. I Just don’t want to wakeup to my reality.

  Sometimes I think I am dreadfully depressed. With this thought I really want medically marijuana just to get high and laugh really hard at sitcoms and comedy movies being fuzzy and high. However, I don’t live in California and I really don’t have any great weed hookups anywhere. I’m not even a pothead. I suppose I’d prefer natural high over medications that have a list of side effects just to make you less depressed.

  I find myself to level headed to consider myself a depressed person. You see, that is the problem. When you are not either or you are in a constant dilemma with your mood. Sometimes I just want to shout, “Someone help me! Someone hug me! Fuck me! Be my friend and hangout with me!” blah blah blah. I’m sure you have been there. I dread being so lonely and unexcited about my environment that is suppose to be so exciting told to me by everyone that learns of the position I put myself in.

  I’ve thought about suicide. I’m a complete ultimate fiasco of a failure by any American success story. I suppose since I was brought up Catholic and all I know of the more spiritual world and reincarnation is that is suicide really worth it? I really don’t want to goto purgatory and be stuck in my current thoughts. I also don’t want to be reincarnated as a mentally challenged, disabled, or bug. No thanks. I want to die being free and maybe just get to chill out for a few centuries with some hot babes that are angels. I thought if I did just end this silly life I’d do it by sky diving. I have a fear of heights, but it would be pretty almost to fly and drop down for a few minutes before I flattened myself like a pancake.

  But I must get it together. I must finish my writing, a film or two, continue to trade the stock market, and continue to go mad going after the American dream I’ve been brainwashed so well with growing up watching Saturday morning cartoons. I don’t know it just might be Scotland weather…

  
  Filed under: committing suicide, i have a fucked up life, life in review, motivational letters from struggling entrepreneurs, personal crisis, personal life, scotland life, sleeping in because of depression, subconcious thoughts, trading stock options Tagged: committing suicide, dealing with depression, killing yourself, my life is gray, scotland depressing weather, sleeping in more than 12 hours a day, the american dream

  2 months on
  Paul Phillip
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  Cheapness and greediness gets you no where – Trading Competition – QQQ’s

  Okay so I’m half way through my trading competition with my eldest sister and she is about to quit trading all together. She actually traders smarter than me, but I suppose after trading and focusing your life around practice trading for over 7 years and you still aren’t making money you throw in the towel. I told her after our competition to take a year off. I take 6 months to a year off when my trading just sucks.

  Currently in the competition I’m down -50% in my QQQ and S trades. I bought so out of the money expecting the early rally in October to continue but it never did. Well it has but more less gone sideways. I really see the QQQ hitting $60 so I ridiculously bought Nov 63 Calls for $.09 trying to make a small fortune within 2 months. So only time will tell if my options hit between $.50 – 1.00 which is my target sell price. Sprint (S) is going through hard times but I really think opening it up to selling iPhones might get more traffic through their stores and since they are in every RadioShack it gives them double the exposure. You know they were the first to come out with 3G and 4G. I don’t think the company gets enough credit. So far the stock after I purchased Jan 2.50 Calls has been rather soft and bad news/negative news has come in. I usually NEVER purchase a stock under $20. It seems anything under this price moves like a snail and just has problems politically or financially within the company. However, I figured if the QQQ and DOW would move up than S should move along up with it. I don’t plan to make a killing out of it. I have 3 months to be right or lose $700 in the trade.

  I hope my big sister doesn’t give up trading. When we started learning together we were told its about trading a lifetime. However, for most normal people trading a lifetime if you aren’t making money will basically ruin your life. It sure has ruined mine. I think I have over $40,000 in student loans I traded and ended up being at a loss. But fuck it. I’m going to show all you fuckers I can beat this game if it’s the last thing I do alive – of course if I die then I got beat. I trade with less now. I’m not going to make my 8 years of trading and paying my market tuition go to waste.

  
  Filed under: trading stock options Tagged: losing your back in the stock market, losing your life savings trading options, not giving up, qqq november 2011 uptrend, trading options for a living, trading the stock market with student loans

  3 months on
  Paul Phillip
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  Her Lost Dog

  

  Do you have memories of a pet? I miss my Josie. I love her and she's just a tiny old fluffy haired cat, but I hope to replace her for a cool nice dog like this one shown in the near future. I love you Josie, but you don't wag your tail, go on walks with me, and now when I come home on school breaks you are relentless to sleep on my bed at night. This leaves me no choice. However, don't worry you won't be lost Mom and Dad have already been somewhat forced to adopt you since I am gone and have abandoned you. I will not forget are good memories together.
  
  Music: Coldplay "42"
  Director/DP: P.P.
  Actress: Irina Timonina
  Camera: Nikon D7000

  Cast: Paul Phillip

  Tags: lost dogs, lost cats, paul phillip, coldplay, nikon d7000, scotland, UK, animal shelters, PETA and adopt a pet

  3 months on
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  Trading Compeition with my sister – Sept. 15th – Dec. 1st 2011

  So me and the big sister are in a competition to see who’s account will double first for the next two months. I was currently up 25% but just got hit -50% with the latest swing in the market upside playing puts. My goal is to take $2000 to around $4000+. If you would like to join the competition post a comment and be ready to show your brokerage statement Dec. 1st.

  
  Filed under: trading stock options Tagged: market trends in 2011 for pre-election year, september to december, trading competition with your family, trading options

  4 months on
  Paul Phillip
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  Song "21" by Jen Urban & The Box - Rough Cut

  

  By Paul Phillip
  Director, DP, Editor
  paul-phillip.com
  
  Band
  Jen Urban & The Box
  juatb.com
  
  Record Label
  Roc-elle Records
  Brooklyn, NY
  roc-elle-records.com/​

  Cast: Paul Phillip

  Tags: song 21 by jen urban and the box, juatb, roc-elle records, paul phillip music videos, gay band and music video montage

  5 months on
  Vimeo / Paul Phillip's videos
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  It’s A-Go Productions – Doing business with Kelley J. Brower – An interesting experience to say the least.

  I write this post as a volunteer MBA consultant and worker for Kelley J. Brower of It’s A Go Productions (New York City, NY). This is not a warning or malicious PR piece on her or her company, but I feel you should learn from my experience. Listen from the wise and make your own decision. I became very upset with the Director after I requested a brief recommendation letter a university I was seeking to attend. I wasn’t requiring for her to do much. I have never asked anything of her – no money – none of her time – ever. However, when I did request such a small action of her to do for me for all the production support I have done for her she insults me on the lowest level. She tells me she can’t write me a recommendation for, well, anything.

  What I do know is that she procrastinated on her projects that she accepts bids way to low. This is great for cheap customers, but you’ll get unprofessional results unless you are willing to wait a very long time for a very small project. In this case please use her and let her grow poorer. She isn’t a bad person, not horrible at all, just a little stupid for being so non-compassionate to a volunteer that helped her so much. As stated at the bottom I have nothing against her, but would never do business with her again.

  After 6 emails giving her a simple draft which she wouldn’t even modify to say even a few good words for me:

  “Paul — Sorry — but it still says script writer – and honestly – i don’t feel comfortable recommending you for anything –”

  “Really? Thank you for being honest, but I find it hard to believe a
  person who takes the time to listen to you, stick up for you, offer
  you free space to do your projects, offers technical support on site
  for your production, helped draft and consult on contracts,
  photography for your productions, spent two 8 hour days making monster
  masks for your commercial, and 8 hours being on site constantly making
  sure the actors in your monster commercial look their best….all of
  this not being paid all in effort to make YOU successful, well, I
  guess you are right Kelley. A guy like that really can’t be
  recommended for anything. Just be sure to send me that download link
  to the monster commercial.”

  “Apparently you really think you know how to
  make it in show business and you are lecturing me about what the
  correct terminology is when you can’t even learn how to open up the
  right downloaded attachment. Trust me, when you asked me to write the
  letter for you after all I have done for you and you couldn’t offer me
  five minutes of your time to just write an email to a school not even
  a company I find that a bit insulting. Thank you for not recommending
  me. You don’t deserve such a privilege. If I find the monster video
  online and you don’t give the common courtesy and professionalism to
  send me the link for my reel I will be quite upset. So be sure to get
  on your lazy editor and get him to finish it soon because no volunteer
  in NYC would have waited this long to receive their DVD reel. This is
  what I call an amateur filmmaker that clearly doesn’t know showbiz or
  you would be on top of your game, which you are apparently not.”

  Thank you,
  Paul Meyer

  Note: This was addressed to Kelley J. Brower, Director, It’s A Go Productions, NYC

  I would like you to know that I really have nothing against Kelley. She isn’t a horrible person, but I feel she does definitely lack wisdom and any brains after writing her 6 emails in a row doing everything for her. Really, myself is to blame when my initial gut feelings was to say no thanks after she did not accept fully with compassion to just write me a short paragraph for my school admissions. I give more respect for a person who turns down the privilege to write a recommendation letter upfront then to lie and then insult a person who only wants to better himself. I would never ask for a recommendation from a person I felt couldn’t offer me even the most simple shortest recommendation.

  Working for people like this makes me the man I am – Angry, Miserable, and Cold. I have my kind moments, but not as much as I’d like. This also shows how horrible at I am picking people to choose to work with. It is fair to say you never know who really is going to be less selfish and return favors so for this I always stay open-minded and fair to everyone. However, once the individual starts to give me bullshit like this one did I give them back fire up their asshole and then some more to let them know who really is the boss. That’s me.

  
  Filed under: trading stock options Tagged: asshole director in new york city, burning bridges with filmmakers, how to burn bridges in new york city, it's a go productions, kelley j. brower, mad volunteers, volunteering for inhumane people

  5 months on
  Paul Phillip