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To all new traders, Look on the bright side. If you can survive the past few months, you can survive anything. An election during earnings during a Trump presidency? That's like navigating a mine field while being shot at during a hurricane. It only gets better from here.

On the one hand, $CPAY is single-handedly the reason I'm green on a bloodbath day. On the other hand, if I had been in $VCYT, which was on my watchlist as a weekly setup, I would be down 56%. Don't hold through earnings. Green. Red. Doesn't matter. It's a violent coin flip.

I'm a big fan of watching reaction videos on YouTube, but I don't know if I'm up for watching V for Vendetta 20 times in a row. I get it. 5th of November and all that. But you're flooding the market. Switch it up. Do Christmas movies in summer and Halloween movies for Easter.

If $PTON can use earnings to break free, it will be very much in play, as it forms an inverse H&S.

One day after I get stopped out of $WEYS. Apparently November is just going to be a month of practical jokes.

Democrats. You have the House and Senate now. You'll probably have the presidency in 2 years. All you have to do is not fuck this up and America will be blue for a decade. Please. Don't fuck this up. Trump 2.0 is out there somewhere, waiting.

I'm an atheist from Ohio and I've been cheering for Talarico for months. He's a rare example of what a Christian should be like. And this is fantastic news. Looks like "He doesn't eat meat and he's probably gay" campaign attacks don't work anymore.

I saw that all the stocks I put in orders for last night were having a great day and celebrated a great start to November. Then I sat down at my computer only to find that every single one of them had gapped over my buy order. 23/5 trading hours can't get here soon enough.

Apparently, the only news in the country, according to Twitter, is that the Texas senate race... is tight.

Had a lovely Halloween.

Today was the worst trading day of my entire trading career. Everything tanked double digits. I was up 5% on the month before today. Instead I finished October up 1.82%. A green month is a green month, but I'm getting real tired of the insanity.

October hasn't been the usual "navigating a minefield" of earnings season. They've been more like "huddling in a leaking submarine, waiting to see if any of the depth charges hit or not." The major explosions are sending shockwave after shockwave into the smaller vessels. $GO

Breaking my rules worked out quite well in this case. $CDNA

$PENG is the leading stock in its sector and is primed for a takeoff, assuming the market recovers from this post-market earnings crash.

BJs Restaurants $BJRI pretty much ignores the daily and only moves with the weekly patterns. And it has a history of syncing smoothly with the MACD swings. I'll be watching this one closely.

Good Lord. I almost bought $MRVL yesterday. It appears I dodged yet another bullet as it plummeted 9% overnight after nearing a deal in which they will purchase $LITE ...which is UP 5% overnight. How can an acquisition help one company and hurt another?

One of my rules is to never hold through earnings. I should probably start following that rule. Because these things are killing me. $MTLS

Coulda would shoulda.

The rest of my portfolio had to do some SERIOUS lifting to make up for $INOD but it was another great day.

Gotta love having one of my positions start the day down 25% on no news. $INOD