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Yesterday, I lost almost half the profit I had made with my share-trading since January.

As you may know, I started my serious share-trading in January this year.  And in about a month or so. I had made about 900 dollars, which was equivalent to 75000 yen.  I was very excited and happy because all my hard work and study had finally paid off!! I had felt much more comfortable about my trading style and had started to build my confidence in it.

Then this thing happened. I lost good money yesterday.  It was very disturbing and upsetting to know that you've lost your money but it happens every now and then, so you have to deal with it as less emotionally as possible. Anyway, I lost only the profit, my starting fund ( as of January) is still intact. I shouldn't let it get to me badly. What is more important here is to learn from your loss.  'What went wrong?' 'What mistake did I make??' sort of things.  I am still a budding share-trader so I  am lacking of experience. This time, after I went through the uptrend, sideway- range, and downtrend for the first time , I came to realise that in order to maximize profit and minimize loss,  I would need to change my trading style and tactics in accordance with the movement of the market. I know my tactics for uptrend is pretty good because I made money, now I need to work out ones for the other two movements.  I have been thinking about it and I am almost there. I need to keep a record of what I learned, including new tactics, so that I won't make the same mistakes and try my new tactics next time.

It's pretty sad and heart-wrenching to lose money you earned but I have to convince myself that I am still in the learning process and also encourage myself that all this leads to my goal, which is to become a very successful share-trader!!

There are also some other things that I have kind of accomplished for the last few months. One of them is share-trading. You know what? Now I am back on doing the share-trading!  Some people might be thinking ' finally, she did it!! ' but I needed enough time to study and doing more research on share-trading so that I could feel more comfortable and confident about it,  and of course, so that I can be successful. Gori was very happy to see that I'd finally taken the plunge and restarted share-trading. ( He thought I'd been putting it off or even chickened out,  but I was not! I was just looking for the right timing to buy shares!)  

I had bought some stock and it's share price had gone up very nicely as I had expected.However, I had totally forgotten that China's International expo would finish this month, which could cause a turbulence in the economy all over the world!  I remember when I went back to Japan, which was about 6 months ago, I was watching TV and some economic expert predicted that China's bubbling economy might crash after it's expo had finished because that's what had happened to Japan. Usually, I don't care less about other people's predictions and rumors about share market but this time I felt it might be true. That's because share charts I use for analyzing stocks are indicating some ominous signs, which could drag the world's share markets down even more. The stock I had bought was doing OK in spite of the current situation but I had a hunch that if the things would keep going down, the stock could go down as well no matter how it tried to go against it. And anyway it's not a good idea to go against the trend, which means buying shares when the overall market is heading for the south. So I sold the share this morning.  Sadly I didn't make any profit but luckily I didn't suffer any loss, either.

This time when I was in action, I often found myself being calm and collected, which is essential to be a good share-trader.  I remember those days when I was share-trading about a year ago, I was always checking share prices and every time the shares went up and down,  my mood swung from the top to the bottom, like riding on an emotional roller-coaster!  But not any more! I didn't make any profit this time but I am sure that I am now one step closer to be a successful share-trader!