You can only keep a wolf caged up for so long. They build layers of fencing in place when you become an adult because they know how dangerous you can be if set free.

Every time I chew through a chain and whittle my exit hole larger they beat me like Charles Bronson. But every time I learn a little more, and I get a little closer to running wild along waterways, eating housecats.

You may find yourself commissioned to a small cube with carpet walls 50 hours per week. Maybe instead you live some kind of champagne lifestyle, jet setting and trading from your yacht. I am somewhere in the middle of these two, scarred up from these corporate shackles while my robot existence travels across the world extracting shekels.

My spirit is nearly free. And I assure you, once I break loose, the corporate machine will take orders from my helper robots.

Elroi is alive and well, today I fed him a few hundred thousand bits of tick data and the color quickly returned to his cheeks. I need to rewire some of his neuropaths to ensure he doesn’t do anything stupid, but he caught the move lower this afternoon effortlessly, cashing in before the entire fade was faded. Welcome back Elroi, you were missed.

My portfolio of stock lunacy started the day peak risk. I sold down some SINA. Early on I was up over three percent, I finished the day up over a percent. I have been running at a one percent plus return per day since ringing in the New Year. I want it to continue. Nothing satisfies, as my good comrade The Rhino would say. I want to beat up monks and take their trinkets so I can sell them on craigslist.

I need to finance my infinity pool and more. I am still very long. Stock picking is working well. I still like TSLA right here, and CMG is something I want to stalk for a snack.

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That’s all it took to power the 30,000 light emitting diodes affixed to this year’s ball drop in Times Square. Tell me this isn’t the year of the LED so I may white wash your face into submission.

By the time the clean glow of LEDS is illuminating your shoppes and neighborhoods I will have already banked a king’s ransom.

FD: Long CREE, RVLT, and I just bot some LEDS

http://youtu.be/5Sn6u5YPfZA

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I started the year with a bang, up over two percent.  One percent per day would annualize nicely I am sure.  Driving these gains is a push into alternative energy and energy savings components.  Solar panels, fuel cells, and wind turbines for generating power to ignite the energy sipping diodes inside LEDs.  LED lighting is a technology that can be proven mathematically to pay for itself in short order and then last longer than most of you shall live.

You’re seeing more of them around you, aren’t you?

I get excited about very little in this world and LEDs are one of them.  They are going to get smaller and brighter every six to nine months, as proven by Haitz’s Law.  Thus you can expect the price to continue to drop, like the components in your obsolete computer, and the aesthetics to increase dramatically.  As the light source shrinks in size it will become increasingly ubiquitous in architecture.  Smaller and smaller it goes, where it stops, nobody knows.

I envision a pin-sized diode blasting the wrath of the sun upon one hundred square feet of autonomous robot laborers.  The future is bright indeed!

Today I sold out of BLDR and SSYS and part of the C position I started yesterday for gains.  Then I went large in CREE right at low of the session it was beautiful.

10% cash into the weekend.  Here’s to a warm inflow of mutual fund money once the New Year really kicks off, saluti!

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The year started with a bang as my zombie solar positions, relics of 2013, came back to life and began their 2014 campaign to eat the brains of short sellers.  I rode deep into “the shit” with YGE, stomaching nearly a 20% drawdown on the position.  I suppose said stock could have gone to zero and taken away all my money. Yet I am young and brazen and have 40 or so years of hard work ahead of me. You see time, my friends, is on my side.  FSLR caught a little love too.  I scaled a bit of YGE off but still hold a hefty lode.

My other zombie position “The Mangina” MJNA, is ripping rather recklessly because the people of Colorado are exulting their newfound freedoms. Prices of cannabis are soaring, as are the degenerate OTC penny junks that trade on these interwebs. Go figure.

My Z weekly lotto ticket started showing genuine promise this morning before succumbing to the pressure of sell flow which knocked price back into this holding pattern.  I still have common stock, but I may be out of time on these tickets.

The (unrealized) profits in Z weekly lottery tickets may or may not have been the culprit behind procuring CMG weekly lottery snacks, which quickly turned against me and will most surely expire worthless.  Ah the lottery, one can hope yes?

Social media, all of it except bizarre-o Twitter, looks weak today.  Fortunately, I am only long TWTR, YELP, ANGI, SINA, and Z.  There was pain.

I bought SFM and it was faded.

I bought C and it went beast into the bell.  They like the financials and C, last year’s SOTY, has been grinding for months and arguably resting and wanting higher.

I was up 1.5% today.  These type of gains can sometimes take all month.  Something tells me easy come…I need to stay nimble.

I have a big book of longs and we are teetering at the highs.  Is it different this time?  Or will I take a huge loss to start the year and spend the entire 1^st quarter playing catch up?  Developing…

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Today was interesting.  Like most interesting days it was loaded with technology issues—the robots of my life are failing me.  Computers, all kinds, are only as effective as their last update.  Something has gone awry on this machine I am currently clacking away on.  It freezes intermittingly at will.

Back on the mother ship, all my helper robots have been rendered useless by an API update.  After much fuss, the truth came out, and the geniuses will not have me back up and running until February.  Awesome, January is of no importance.

As of end-of-day, I have managed to reconnect my market profile charting.  It is considered code yellow, as the stability of the system is entirely contingent on third party execution.  Oh how I love leaving things in others’ hands.  I need to pony up and get a new data feed to get Elroi and the gang back up and running, and I must, because they put a modest amount of food on my family’s table.  Now I am doing the rigmarole to get deals.

Onto stocks, I have so many buys I desire, but I opted to instead watch.  If there’s one thing I know well, it is to sideline myself when systems are haywire.  The last thing I need is an overwhelming blow to my accounts and trader confidence with only the basic necessities of websites and iPhone apps to guide my decision process.

Here is my book:

Cash: 14%

Stocks: CREE, OWW, FSLR, YGE, CLNT, TSLA, GOGO, RVLT, SINA, LO, BALT, Z, BLDR, TWTR, MJNA, and SSYS

I don’t know how it came to this.  I need to focus down to my core…perhaps tomorrow into the New Year.  Here’s to better days ahead, although these tech issues will likely become worse before they become better…just like Michigan weather.

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I am a merry gent over here today as I appear as they say to have the Midas touch.  Yesterday’s sale of TWTR near the high of the day puts a twinkle in my eye.  Let me explain something—selling your multi-week long yesterday is exponentially more intelligent and awesome then shorting twitter yesterday.  Good job, you took a low probability position and it paid off.  I will see you in two years, when you are serving me roasted duck.

Today I sold MODN because back room discussions with good people led me to question the virtues of their management.  I took the quick fix gain.  Next.

My SINA long from 12/20 started working, and when everyone was running from sellers this morning I bought MOAR…MOAR I TELL YOU.  I bought a bunch of CLNT too.  And I must say, the Chinese lottery has today feeling like X-mas all over again.

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My time is very limited so I will make this message brief.  I had to sell some of my Twitter shares today.  I did not want to, in fact, I want to be long Twitter until I am a salty old dog and then pass said shares on to my unappreciative decedents.

But my steam is completely transfixed upon the name.  It could keep climbing tomorrow but technically I am not liking today’s print.  It suggests buyer exhaustion.

Will they exhaust today or tomorrow?  Perhaps.

Or this run will continue.  With most “traders” taking the rest of the week off, the patterns they typically form may not exist today.  I read that this morning.  I disagree.  Order flow is order flow, and I smell buyer exhaustion.

If it goes higher, I continue to ride with a ¼ long.  Hopefully I can buy some retail liquidation in January.

I just call it like I see it.

http://youtu.be/n-b63y6oZA4

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What a week folks, the kind of week careers are made, and lost, in.  Buy the dippers are often ridiculed for their Pavlovian antics but the last dip was not easy to buy.  Emotionally, it was trying, at least for me—a tick or two above plebian class.  I am more merchant class, if you will.  Do you know who didn’t get emotional about buying the last dip?  Robots.

When a financial model is right, 80% of the time, it is at your own peril that your ignore their signals.  The PPT was there for us, whispering in our ear, and patting us on the butt when we struck out on swing longs.  “Get back out there and buy something.”

I made a few mistakes during this last rally.  I used to make bigger mistakes.  If I can continue making less mistakes, the moneys will keep coming in.  This may have been an easy year to buy stocks, but I am still proud to be notching out my best year ever.

I work at this game more than you see.  There are others on this site that bank coin a bit more fluidly, the type of flow you see from masters.  I love seeing them at work and know I will be there soon.

I will be down here on my little tab, grinding, ear-to-ear smiling even when the market is beating my head in with a shovel.  I like it.

Have a great weekend.

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Somewhere down the generational timeline a great many Americans lose sight of The Dream.  Instead they fall victim to the system and all the pitfalls associated with it.  Immigrants want to get inside our system and tear it to bits, eager to disrupt the status quo and take advantage of our open business climate and diverse workforce.  I want to invest in these people via there companies.

I own TSLA.  I see a leader.

Today I bought Model N (MODN).  This company is like a quant trader who can extract money consistently.  MODN takes a dry well, smacks it with a stick, and demands it to provide water.  The stone obliges.

Ask me to explain the company better, because I cannot.  Sitting in the driver’s seat for the company, thinking the big thoughts, is Zack Rinat, founder and CEO of Model N.  The man is a hustler and an Israelite.  He has recieved the blessing of Premier Obama. Plus smart folks in The PPT like MODN.

And you know me, I just like the chart.

Get out there and build something!

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There were several stocks on my radar, and given the enticing nature of the market I sat on my hands and brooded.  The market simply looks too great.  My book was up a modest 32 basis points.  Given my positioning, I can quite honestly say it could be worse.

One character trait I have found common and I simply despise is people who criticize the success of others.  This type of sloth is what congests the highways, bogs down higher education, plagues the political arena, and otherwise leads to my reclusive nature.  I sit by the fire in my cold study, quietly positioning to flash past my competition like a ghost.

Speculation is the greatest expression of creativity.  However, I prefer to pair my ideas with data.  And I would like to share a recent gem The PPT served up for me.  My creative mind wanted exposure to the travel industry.  My chart brain wanted to buy TRIP.  The PPT, and its trove of data said forget about TRIP immediately and buy OWW instead.  This idea amalgamated on Friday the 13^th.  Then this happened:

This type of performance spread pays for years of belonging to The PPT.  I will never enter the battle field without it.  I have 15% cash and it drives me bananas.  I have RVLT, TSLA, F, and GOGO dragging my book down.  I am at my high of the year performance return.  Should I really complain?

Stay hungry.

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