A-Train Finance

Trading Challenge: Down $818 to $8107.00.
Geez, do I hate it when I have to use the red font for my trading updates. It was a difficult week for me in the markets as I practically gave back all of the above-even gains from last week. It has now been a little over a [...]

Trading Challenge, Up $1650 to $8,920.
The last week has been a very interesting one around A-Train Finance headquarters. It’s been a few since an update, and I promise to be better about posting more often. The trading challenge is still going in full swing, currently up 11.7% since January 1st, 2008 for a [...]

It was an interesting morning at A-Train Financial™ Headquarters (my bedroom) today.  Not only was today the biggest gain in trading challenge history (almost 3 weeks now?), but the continuation of a very interesting pattern also occurred. Since I started the challenge I’ve made six round trip trades, which may not seem like a lot [...]

I had the great opportunity to have a short interview with Dax Desai over at High Return Investing.
A: Hey Dax, I appreciate you taking your time to talk with me today.
D: No problem. I’ve been a regular reader of your blog
and its great to talk to you.
A: It’s great to talk to you [...]

What a killer headline, right?  Just an update for today, I got sloppy and am down to $7906.03 on a poor entry point on 500 shares of SHOR.  Barely any volume, no particular chart pattern, what was I thinking?  I could have held on for 5 hours to see what the market would have done, [...]