Half Year Update

 I just posted 2 posts that have been sitting unworked on for a couple months. 

It is June 24 and I want to get a quick one out.

Things are smoothing over. I have started using scripts to update my data. It now only takes about 20 seconds for me to complete my morning copy and paste routines. Safe to say thats huge. 

Trading itself is going fine. I am still in drawdown from earlier this year gains but slowing myself down, not trading everyday, and waiting for better market environments is where I am at now. Currently long DOC, ENSG, and MEDP. 

Sadly im running out of trading capital. I cant take as many trades as I would like but maybe thats not the worst thing. It does require me to get very speicifc about what I am trading. I only have X amount of capital, I must use it on the best setups. 

I have not figured out a good routune. New born Bo/house still taking priority but I am keeping eye on setups still a few times a week.

I have subbed to SATA, https://www.stageanalysis.net/

This gives me industry ideas and stocks to be on the lookout for. It shows the strongest performers and ranks them and gives them a number. Quite useful, but ultimatley the sheets that I have created still give me the detail I am looking for. 

The problem with that is I had copied and pasted data from ROIC into my sheets, and now ROIC has changed there format, which adds a few extra steps everytime I would copy data. I havent had a chance to sit a sort that out yet but that should be next on the to do list. 

Once I do that, Then I need to create a script to auto copy/past/fill data across several sheets just with the click of a button. I imagine that will take a week or so for me to figure out. 

But once that is complete, then I have a clearer picutre of stocks and industry performance and will not need SATA. I will have the data in my sheets.

I have the foundation aleady created to rank all the industries, I just need to add more stocks in the data base. Im currently about halfway to where I want to be with 950 stocks. Ill need to get to near 2000.

SATA will tell me which industries to start with. 

All in all, just taking it a day at a time. Having fun with family before I have to go back to work and then I can kick it into higher gear again when I have much less disctractions. 

For now just buildign a better foundation, Making my steps easier by using scripts. 

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