Brian Lee

this is just another diary

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@fasc1nate I think her life would have been fine if she had just honored her verbal agreement

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

On the road of the fathers, the task of the son is first of all to survive. Following that, to learn to use the sword that he inherits to make distinctions between the mysteries and the wounds in the world.~Michael Meade, The Water of Life

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

Discipline is a bad word in our culture. People associate it with having to do what they're told. But discipline is quite a lovely word. It comes from the same root as disciple, and it means seeing yourself through the eyes of the teacher who loves you.~Marion Woodman

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

There is indeed no better medium for moral teaching than the good fairy-story (by which I mean a real deep-rooted tale, told as a tale, and not a thinly disguised moral allegory).~J.R.R. Tolkien

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@Reconcilography Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview ("I AM THE THIRD REVELATION") and Reynolds Woodcock ("...it hurts my feelings!")

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

Then realized it was a childish thing to feel, and silenced it. It was a green day, with a decent trade executed. I still have a little more than I did at the start of the year. Second class (after market close) went well. Laughed a lot.

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

3/23 - World Bear Day. Frazzled, anxious start after overleveraged loss. Scalped NQ for some practice but was unfocused. Plan was: look for failure to capture 4040. Gave away all of FOMC day's gains shorting too early.

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

Was disappointed initially that I

1) deleveraged, feeling like I "should have" seen the "obvious" NQ high at 13050

2) did not catch the 'obvious' profit take at 3950, and barely made back losses from the previous day, and that the market even gave a second profit take at 3950

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

2/6 - 3/19

hot streak, made tons of money

3/20 - 3/22

began cold streak, lost most of the gains. Needed to emotionally reset. Did some thinking, some introspection. Needed to happen; thought I was better than market; humbled quickly.

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

-- Edwin LeFevre, Reminisces of a Stock Operator

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

"If somebody had told me my method would not work I nevertheless would have tried it out to make sure for myself, for when I am wrong only one thing convinces me of it, and that is, to lose money. And I am only right when I make money. That is speculating."

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@WifeyAlpha Zee puts: printed, peaked at almost +200% today
ES 3850: started the scam pump?
CQ: still hedged and silent

I don't know how you've trained CQ to be so quiet, but I have had great success taking her silence as exit signals for my short /ES trades. Thanks for all you do.

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@TraderGoalieOne Rest in peace. I learned a lot from Bob -- his "RIDE THE WAVE" will stay with me for as long as I'm trading.

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

You participate with joy in the sorrows of the world. You play the game. It hurts, but you know that you have found the place that is transcendent of injury and fulfillments. You are there, and that's it. ~Joseph Campbell

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@TicTocTick Exhibit A: Jerome Powell's puckered lips

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@Reconcilography fatigued, pensive, saddened

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@DiMartinoBooth It was not in my high school (NJ, c. 2011). There were about 15 of us in Civics, out of a class size of around 250. At the time, it was "just an elective" that I thought would look good to colleges, but in reflection, I am deeply thankful that I took that course.

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@SophiaCycles to your soul, you know? I think of your page here as a kind of modern-day shrine, a place of rest when I am world-weary and forgetful of the mythic, and thank you for your tireless maintenance of it.

[Brian Lee @BrianKinLee]

@SophiaCycles The constellation of ideas with which your tweets interface has been so, so formative to my personal development. I can be nothing but grateful for your presence on my feed. I think there are so few places in today's virtual space that ask you to turn inward and speak 1/