Weddings, Trading, Kayaking

Hi,

Been a busy month. Been watching live trading every night to see how the seasoned pros do it in real time. I made $55 on ON but lost $253 on TWTR so currently im down $200. Haven't been trading btc as much as i have been trying to learn the stock market abit more and it took alot of my attention.

I am also looking for a better broker as the commissions for local brokers is eating away my profits and even though i made good calls on NFLX and ARNC, i could not exit with profit even after a 5-7% move to the upside.

Trading is really hard, the emotions of my first lost was quite a hit i admit and it took me a day to get over it. But i will keep trying to succeed and hopefully one day i can say that i have cracked it! Still, i am abit worried some nights when i lie down in bed and think about it. If i cant succeed, i will have to find a job and work off the losses. But i think i will keep trying at least till december and hopefully i can be profitable by then.

Been to Dang's wedding and MX's wedding the past 2 weeks. it was good to see them happily with their partners. How time flies. It doesnt seem too long ago that one was my secondary 1 classmate with a math score of 103/100 and the other my teammate in the k4 1000m training for my first SEA Games where we got our first medals and validation as athletes. Now they are both moving to the next stage in life. Yet, i feel like i am exactly the same person i was from 2002, 2011.

I think i dont change much. I still like the same things, I still have the same routines. I am still in the kayak everyday. I feel different from everyone else. How do they change so much? how do they move to new things so easily. I am not sure how its possible and i cant wrap my mind around it.

Maybe i just am not good with change. And i resist it alittle.

I should try to make the first steps again more often. There will be good things infront of me too.

Job hunting, trading and back to training

Hi,

It's been afew weeks since my last update and in this time quite afew things have happened. I sent out afew job applications, mainly to startups as I prefer less bureaucratic environments and they were mainly in the field of financial technology which I thought was interesting. My first few applications have not given me any replies and I guess I won't be hearing back from them. The last said I had a strong application however they found someone else who was better suited probably due to the fact that I didn't have much industry experience. Well, I'll keep looking around and I might apply if the location and job seems interesting. This job hunt was more thorough than last year. Previously I really had no idea what I wanted to do and would have just jumped into any job even if I didn't like it. Now having had some experience working, I have a better idea of the environment I want and what I am interested in and what I am not.

Maybe that's why it's harder to find another job now. In the meantime, while awaiting replies from companies, I started to seriously learn trading and technical analysis. I find that there are many YouTube channels such as Tone Vays, The Chart guys and Philakone really useful in getting newbies like me into trading. These guys really know their stuff and I'm not surprised they are doing well. 

I started trading the Bitcoin I bought much more seriously now and at first I wasn't making much and was often stuck in bad trading positions. But after afew months of reading and watching these guys, I'm starting to make more progress and have begun to accumulate and grow my crypto accounts slowly but surely. Now the only thing that worries me if that the exchange gets hacked or that it will take a long time for prices to recover for me to cash out and realize my profits. 

Also I started moving into quities and etfs as this would allow me to realize profits in dollars instead of in Bitcoin(so that I can use it for daily life). Hopefully I can continue to improve with more time as I quite enjoy trading and reading about markets which was the reason I liked economics so much.Still, I will continue to keep a look out for any good jobs out there as it would be nice to also meet new people and not just be coped up in front of my computer and charts all day. 

I also signed up for my final coaching course certification. I would like to get it done and be fully recognized as a qualified kayak coach in the case that I would like to coach in the future. I haven't decided yet, but since I am not competing this year in the asian games, it gives me more time to do other things.

Also I got back into proper training., I feel technically better and have been working to improve my base speeds. However my fitness needs a lot of work now as I haven't been pushing myself very hard training alone most of the time. I did have Daniel and the juniors for awhile which was great and it reminded me of the early years between 2007 and 2011. Those were great times to paddle when there were a lot of motivated people around who were also fun to hang out with. It seems like everyone is moving on to other things but I still like kayaking too much to stop doing it on a daily basis.

Hopefully I will be able to find my ikigai as well. If you don't know what it is, look it up on google!

Till the next update.