“Stupid Humans”

What a wretched day to trade stocks, bonds, and futures.  Once the NASDAQ halted, and trading came to a snail’s crawl, I had to blow off some steam.  Normally I would do some cubicle dips or punch boxes as part of my corporate workout regimen, but today I felt particularly aloof so I went to the arcade and played some zombie murder shoot’em up game.  Ironically enough, I began talking with an interesting gent who was also killing zombies. He wore a curious duster jacket and small round sunglasses down on the tip of his nose, like Carl Levin.  I told him the NASDAQ was broken to which he said, “Stupid fucking humans, fucking with computers.”

I was shocked he knew the NASDAQ was an electronic market and amused by his excessive use of profanity.  I withdrew from the video game shortly after when my coins expired, leaving him to continue his campaign solo.  The exchange was odd, to say the least.

Upon returning, I saw nothing about my life had changed.  My assistants were still working on their whiteboard compositions, the NASDAQ was still iced up, and my stocks were where I left them.

As we pressed past three thirty I noticed shares of END rising back up…clearly to the chagrin of short sellers.  They’ve been aggressively fading every upward move in END lately, but failing to press lower.  MHR had been strong all day, but began getting stronger.  I queued up oil via /CL aka light sweet crude futures, it too was firming up.  Then I made my only swing adjustment on the day.  BOT USO.

I tried to make some sense of it all, but I can see it makes no sense at all…why oil is going higher.  However I only care that it is, in fact, going higher, IMHO.  That’s how you make the money.

My robot took two trades in the /ES today and made $175.00 using 1 contract.  #BOSSRAM went 1-for-1 in beta testing earning $75.00.  These robots are my ticket to the champagne lifestyle, watch.

I feel exhausted.  Funny how a day of less can take more out of a person than a day of more, yes?  It could also be the massive carb lunch I consumed at the arcade (5 slices of pizza).