Top Gainers & Losers 2021 January

 This is a new segment which I hope to do monthly.

Basically would like to chart the top gainers and losers trades for the year. 

January (and a little of February) has brought in some good gainers to offset my losers.

On the gainers front, the PayPal trade has recently paid off handsomely. Early January also managed to clock the First Resources trade to make some good money. The NASDAQ index gamble is quite a fluctuating one, so this might drop in and out of the list throughout the year.

On the losers front, they traditionally get dominated by the indices trades which waste a lot of my money. Obviously the Dow30 is one standout that's losing my tons of money in January. Made one stupid trade on DBS in late January as well which wasted my money basically, within a few days. And of course the worst trade was the big market event of the year so far, the $GME and $AMC event where GameStop stocks went crazy because of the Reddit sub called WallStreetBets. What a saga that was, and how I managed to turn a big win at the first instance, into such a big loss.

Here's hoping I don't clock any bigger losers, and instead clock larger and larger winners!

My Saxo P&L 2021 January

So it is a new year and I immediately dig a really deep hole for myself.

In January not only did I clock my first berserker rage of the year, which was really stupid, but also found myself about 3K down in my Saxo investment account.

Most of it due to unnecessary and over-trading of indices. 

Again.

Sigh. 

Hopefully Feb will be better.

First Berserker Rage Of 2021

 Sigh.

I really cannot get rid of this lack of self control.

Again.

Year upon year it always ends the same.

Played with KO Options on NASDAQ and really got KO-ed.

Damn you IG Markets! Why are you even offering it to gamblers!

Ended up losing 8K.

This is super painful.

:(

Financial Resolution For 2021

Another year where I'd added a financial resolution out of my annual five. 

This year is down from the two I had last year.

3) Earn >$30K In My Saxo Account

Mentally I already have had this target since the turn of the year. It can be seen as 'revenge' for my huge losses of last year. But really more importantly what has changed, I think, is a strengthened resolve later last year to change the way I trade. This I have adapted or am still adapting, but to rather positive results. This bodes well for this resolution, so let's see if it all pans out.

One prospective other goal I have for 2021 is to achieve more than 300K in total liquid assets by the end of the year.

Let's see if I can achieve it!

So far it is 8 days into 2021 and things do not bode well. I have been wasting money on the US Indices again as well as one stint of shorting TSLA (will I ever stop disbelieving in them?!), and am already down 4.9K for the year. 

Hopefully things improve from this day forward!

Stopping the Monthly Dividend Report

Since I'm not pursuing that trading strategy anymore, I will cease to report on my dividends moving forward.

The March 2020 crash basically took me out of most of my dividend stocks. 

I guess I must be doing it wrong.

Sigh. 

My Saxo P&L 2020

Again keeping up with traditions, here's how I've performed this year.

As with how terrible 2020 has been for everyone, it has also been a horrendous year for my personal trading account. 

I lost the most money I ever did with this trading account. 

Almost 30K.

Too much trading of indices and TSLA. 

Damn you Tesla! When are you going to come crashing down?!

Look at this!

Anyway everything else also didn't really go to plan, so it's been a really bummer year for me on the investing front.

Sad.

Here's my total performance for the year. 

A sea of red.

My Saxo P&L 2020 December

So I managed to cap a very shitty year with a high. 

Raking in the most GREEN I've enjoyed for the year. 

Largely due to a new trading strategy of following one particular paid-guru.

So far so good. 

Really hope that he'll help me huat in 2021.

It is really looking promising so far.

All that said, look at how red 2020 has been for me in the Saxo account! So many bad decisions all cumulated together. I have never lost so much in a single year before. If not for December's outperformance, I would have lost more than 30K!

Anyway hope 2021 will bring me greater fortune and prosperity.

HUAT AH!

2020 Dividend Accumulator December

One single pathetic dividend payout.

Nothing much to crow about as usual.

17 December $5.00

18 December $13.50

21 December $40.00

30 December $34.00

30 December $18.00

Total Dividends for December: $110.50

Total Dividends for 2020: $4,353.20
Average per Month: $362.77

2020 Dividend Accumulator November

One single pathetic dividend payout.

Nothing much to crow about as usual.

04 November $15.00

Total Dividends for October: $15.00

Total Dividends for 2020: $4,242.70
Average per Month: $353.56

My Saxo P&L 2020 November

So just when I thought things were turning around, I get slapped in the face by the market and by my own stupid trading indiscipline.

I ended up trading indices again and almost bursting my employee trade count restriction within the first week.

Plus losing 5.5K to boot.

How shitty is that?

December is looking promising but it is still early days so hopefully I don't do anything stupid now. Already 3.8K up!

If I can carry this on then I'll talk about what I did to turn things around next month.