{"id":2986,"date":"2010-01-22T16:26:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2010-01-25T20:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:05:04","slug":"steve-can-confabulate-just-like-the-big-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/01\/22\/steve-can-confabulate-just-like-the-big-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Can Confabulate Just Like The Big Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following along the premise of the Worcester T &amp; G, AP, and Reuters, I have been keeping track of the losses in my investment portfolio due to Scott Brown being elected Senator from Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>By January 21, I had lost $16,685 (on paper).<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t know the extent of my losses today until my mutual funds evaluate their portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>See <a title=\"Reuters Confabulates, Too\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/01\/20\/reuters-confabulates-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters Confabulates, Too<\/a> and <a title=\"Mass. Senate race affects market\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/01\/20\/mass-senate-race-affects-market\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mass. Senate race affects market<\/a> for the precedent that I am following.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-style: ridge; color: #238e23; border-width: 0.3125em;\" \/>By January 22, I had lost $26,380 (on paper).<\/p>\n<p>The number would have been worse had I not made a trade that prevented a $700 loss.<\/p>\n<p>At $8,000 to $10,000 a day, in one year I project a loss of $2,000,000 in 200 trading days.  Very alarming. \ud83d\ude44\u00a0 I am so glad there are weekends and holidays when the market is closed.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-style: ridge; color: #238e23; border-width: 0.3125em;\" \/>\n<p>Well, the weekend is over and so is my Scott Brown losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>On January 25, 2010 I made back $7,500 (on paper) of my losses (on paper).  Making a new projection using Friday&#8217;s projection method, I should make $1,500,000 by a year from now if the next 200 trading days match this one. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t bother to update this post any further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following along the premise of the Worcester T &amp; G, AP, and Reuters, I have been keeping track of the losses in my investment portfolio due to Scott Brown being elected Senator from Massachusetts. By January 21, I had lost $16,685 (on paper). I won&#8217;t know the extent of my losses today until my mutual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}