August
August turned out to be an interesting month.
I wasn’t sure what to expect, coming into it off the back of a record month, so I set my much expectations lower. It turned out to be a pretty good month anyhow and I was just short of my third best month of the year. I now tend to glance at prior years to figure what I should achieve and I was more or less on target based on years prior. I also managed to achieve my highest strike rate of the year, but the difference between months now is measured in just 10th’s of a percent so, while pleasing, that doesn’t mean much really.
The month started in excellent style when I traded from a completely different location as a bit of test. On my blog post I sort of positioned this as holiday where I traded, but it was really the the way around. More trading with lots of fun around it. It was the acid test of whether things had developed enough for me to work confidently from other locations and the test passed with flying colours. So from now on, I could be anywhere when I write this! I had worked from many locations before, but as my style has developed and my activity has risen, I wasn’t sure if I would feel comfortable enough away from my normal locations. But those fears were unfounded. After a really cracking start to the month, I wondered if I should have stay away from the office? My results dipped for the next two weeks but I came surging back in the final week of the month with some cracking results.
August sees the end of the summer turf evening racing. But other sports fill in gaps now until Novemberish when things just start to get tougher all around. I’m currently chasing down some very long term targets which I hope to achieve before the end of the year. Given how the year as a whole has gone I think I should achieve those. From that point on I am going to have to think about that critical question ‘What next?’. I’ll aim to give it some thought as we head towards the end of the year.
US Open tennis is a good opportunity at the start of September so make sure you have a dabble in the markets. Even if you have never tried to trade Tennis before it presents a good opportunity to try and because of the different time zone you should be able to do that without getting in the way of other stuff.
Good luck for the month ahead.
Category: Tennis
