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Loews Corporation
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I use a spreadsheet plus chart screenshots. Beyond entry, exit and P/L, I track market type, thesis, invalidation, whether I followed my rules, and the specific mistake if I didn’t.
The biggest improvement came from reviewing repeated behaviors. Tags like early entry, oversizing, overtrading and ignored invalidation made the patterns obvious

Spent years on this exact problem (background is biopsychology, so the "how I felt" part of your log is the part I care most about). A few things that changed journaling from record-keeping into actual improvement for me:
**The metrics you listed track outcomes. The improvement lives in tracking** ***deviations*****.** Win/loss and R:R tell you what happened; they don't tell you whether you followed your own process. The single highest-value column I ever added: "was this entry part of my plan, or improvised?" Tag every trade at entry, not in review. My most painful discovery was that my planned trades were profitable and my improvised ones were lighting the account on fire — blended together they just looked like mediocre performance. Excel can't easily show you that split unless you build it in.
**Log feelings as predictions, not diaries.** Instead of "how I felt after," try writing *before* the session: "if my first trade loses, I predict I'll do X." Then check it after. Sounds silly, but reviewing your predictions about your own behavior is 10x more confronting than reviewing your P&L. You start seeing your patterns as patterns instead of one-off mistakes.
**Count rule violations as their own stat.** Trades without a stop, moved stops, position size over plan, chasing after a missed trigger. My rule-violation count predicted my drawdowns better than any market condition did.
The uncomfortable meta-lesson: the journal isn't for finding better setups. It's for catching the gap between the trader you think you are and the one your fills say you are. Mine once showed me 3 no-stop entries in a month when I'd have sworn it was one.
On tooling — excel is fine for outcomes but terrible at the behavioral layer, which is why yours "hasn't led to much improvement" despite being diligent. Whatever you use, the test is: can it show you *your* recurring mistake before you repeat it?

yall getting a house? I'm looking at my 2 years' worth of salary in unrealised L on a stock that went from 1.3 to 0.18

Fund selection recommendations for 40 yo?
State Street Cash Series U.S. Government Fund - Class L
PIMCO Low Duration Fund - Class R
State Street U.S. Inflation Protected Bond Index Non-Lending Series Fund - Class
PIMCO Total Return Fund - Class R
Invesco Global Strategic Income Fund - Class R
PGIM High Yield Fund - Class R
BlackRock Global Allocation Fund, Inc. - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement Balanced Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2010 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2015 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2020 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2025 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2030 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2035 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2040 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2045 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2050 Fund - Class R
T. Rowe Price Retirement 2055 Fund - Class R
Calamos Growth and Income Fund - Class A
MFS Value Fund - Class R2
Fidelity Advisor Leveraged Company Stock Fund - Class M
Invesco Rising Dividends Fund - Class R
State Street S&P 500 Index Securities Lending Series Fund - Class IX
Victory Diversified Stock Fund - Class R
Calamos Growth Fund - Class A
T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund - Class R
Janus Henderson Enterprise Fund - Class R
Victory Sycamore Small Company Opportunity Fund - Class R
Janus Henderson Overseas Fund - Class R
State Street International Index Securities Lending Series Fund - Class VIII
Thornburg International Equity Fund - Class R3
Invesco International Growth Fund - Class R
Invesco Developing Markets Fund - Class R

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Been holding this one through some rough patches and finally pulled the trigger. Not gonna pretend I timed it perfectly, but the thesis played out close enough.
The moomoo community has been pretty divided on names like this lately. Some folks calling tops, others averaging down every dip. Hard to know who's right until you're looking at a closed P/L.
Ngl the emotional side of trading these mid-term holds is underrated. You watch a position swing against you for weeks, convince yourself you're wrong, then it snaps back right after you trim.
The bear case here wasn't crazy either. Macro pressure, rate sensitivity, crowded positioning. But the setup held.
Anyone else dealing with that trim-regret cycle? I stayed mostly long but definitely left some on the table. Am I the only one who never quite exits at the right size?

OP, sorry this happened to you.
Another thing to watch out for is usernames with I’s and l’s.
Those are capital i’s and a lowercase L. They can be mixed into names like his making him able to mimic others if you type in an i for a L and vice versa.

The pill bottles told me, big strong pill bottles, with tears in their eyes “Mr president, you’ve done more for me than any other president in history” and I have. That word, pill. Does anyone use it? I think I might have been one of the first, pill. P E E L. The doctors asked me to draw a clock. And I aced it. I drew a square and put 12:00 in it. The best drawing. Now Hegseth he knows a thing or two about bottles. No not that, testeroni. Big strong men in the army. The beasts we have. Maybe they take the pills also, but those were *china* pills and now they are American pills. Some say the best pills ever, stronger, more potentate. Big pills, beautiful pills. And no trans pills. Not on my watch. Whatever they do, they can do it else where. But testeroni for the boys and esteroni for the gals. Make them so strong. Iran is already calling, begging like a dog, sir we can’t take your testeroni boys. Please sir, we promise to be good.

OP, if you’re taxed as an s-corp, get that money out of the business STAT. As a pass-through entity, you’re paying taxes on the net profit in your annual income whether it’s withdrawn from the company.
Assuming you’re on accrual for invoicing, the second the invoice gets sent, it goes on your P&L.
Perform a cash flow analysis on your expenses versus invoicing.
My business outbound expenses are about $250k a month with a rolling $350k in AR account. I have about $160k stashed away in an HYSA, and anywhere between $100-$150k in my operating expense account, and have multiple lines of credit that I can pull from in a bind.
YMMV but this has worked for me for many years

"The next gamble will make it back" is probably the worst psych trap to put yourself in. Some days, it is not your day. Accept that, take the L, and try again when you *aren't gambling*.

“Simple and repeatable” and “not a get rich quick strategy” back to back. Come on man, take your L and move on with your life

L/S is correlated to various degrees to equity beta, let's say from 0;6 to 0.3 usually. If you want something uncorrelated, you have to go for equity market neutral (EMN) funds, it's very close but not exactly the same kind of beast. EMN funds are doing great efforts to reduce equity beta to 0 in normal condition. However even EMN can have some correlation during difficult times. These are extremely leveraged funds, not to much of an issue since short/long are cancelling, but it can make operation challenging in stress condition. Also EMN (and LS) can underperform for years and if you look at various funds, you can see there is both a global market effect and a manager effect.

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By your train of logic you'll end up not hold anything except stocks / MFs - but on the face of it, you're correct, NPS is worse in terms of flexibility because it forces you to take an annuity even if you don't want one.
However, there are a few second-order factors that make it worth considering:
1. An annuity which pays you money at a fixed rate till you die is not the worst investment instrument in the world; if you pump up the corpus and choose the right options (and higher % to annuity) you can really make it so that it's the only income source you'll ever need in retired life for routine expenses.
2. There has been a clear movement in making NPS more palatable to the people at large, and recently there was a rule modification to increase the lump sum withdrawal limit to 80% - I'm assuming to win over folks like you.
3. There'll be no CG tax on the (as of now) 60% withdrawal, i.e., all your returns will be tax free. Even if you consider today's 12.5% tax regime, in your example of 24 L total investment turning to 1 Cr in 20 years (≈ 12.69% XIRR), that's an LTCG of 12.5%\*76 L = 9.5 L, which is massive - it brings your XIRR down to 11.86%.
4. Folks using new regime (which is everyone except those with huge home loans with interests + maxed out deductions and exemptions) and > 12 LPA income get an additional tax benefit on investing too. For someone in 20% bracket, making an SIP of 10000 would need 12626 in pre-tax salary vs. 10000 for NPS. If you account for tax on both sides, the XIRR of SIP of 12626 for 20 years turning into 90.5 L is a measly 9.91% - while the market delivered 12.69%.

lmao nothing just goes my way, calls for nvda are always going to be an L

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Don’t follow me, I don’t do discord besides the official one for wallstreetbets, I got lucky and if you try what I did you will lose, hell I am losing now.
Only advice I can give you is, trust your convictions and if not take the L and reposition your portfolio to the best ability you can. I leveraged myself with call options on things I personally thought would make me money.

Canada kind of sucks if you want to move into front office QD, compared to the US at least. Regulations are strict, so almost all of the “quant” jobs you’ll find there will be at banks or pension funds. The only three “real” firms I know with a significant presence in Canada are Squarepoint, DRW, and CC&L. Anecdotally, the banks have been aggressively cutting headcount in various quant-adjacent roles for the past year/2 now, so make sure to get a second opinion if job security is a priority. Good luck!

Been demoing for about 6 weeks now, mostly EUR/USD and DAX, feel decent about my entries but I keep going back and forth on the broker question and honestly might just be procrastinating going live by researching more.
Down to two options really. One's a variable spread broker that's cheaper on paper during calm hours, and AvaTrade which runs fixed spreads, a bit wider on average from what I've tracked but doesn't move on me during news.
My worry with going fixed is I'm leaving money on the table 90% of the time just to protect myself for the 10% where spreads would've blown out anyway. But then I've also read enough horror stories here about people getting stopped out at a garbage price during NFP because their variable spread broker widened 4x right when they needed to exit.
Trading small size for now so it's not like either choice bankrupts me, more trying to build the right habit before I scale up. For people who've actually lived through both models, did the fixed spread thing end up mattering in practice or is it one of those things that sounds smart in theory and barely shows up in your actual P&L?

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You don't need to calculate turnover manually, your broker shows it under P&L statement. Kotak, Zerodha is easy to find, Dhan takes bit of trickery. Not sure about others, never used anything else.