{"id":107,"date":"2012-11-22T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-11-24T17:20:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T00:20:59","slug":"back-on-the-market-week-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/2012\/11\/22\/back-on-the-market-week-x\/","title":{"rendered":"What went wrong &#8211; week X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/files\/2012\/11\/soybean_january2013-JPG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112\" title=\"soybean_january2013-JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/files\/2012\/11\/soybean_january2013-JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/files\/2012\/11\/soybean_january2013-JPG.jpg 650w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/files\/2012\/11\/soybean_january2013-JPG-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>hI<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Nov 22nd, I have just gone back into my Tradesim account. It says no trading when I tried to browse for contract orders. I wanted to offset the long position I have for soybeans and get a new short contract. I&#8217;m losing $5037 in soybeans. Not sure what has happened here.<\/p>\n<p>From market trend, it looks like I will continue losing on my equity balance. It was all because of the glitches on tradesim. I thought I have exited to market earlier two weeks again for my four long contracts on January soybeans (S3F) and March corn (C3Z). However, this isn&#8217;t the case.<\/p>\n<p>If I manage to enter the market to change my trading strategy, I will change my position to short for soybeans, and possibly getting two short contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out that soybeans is on the rise based on US&#8217;s turkey day. However, for some strange reason, I have incurred $4,512 worth of losses on tradesim.. with a lower net equity balance of $26,427.64. What a pain?!! I guess, at the end of trading game, I still haven&#8217;t managed to recoup all my losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Lesson learned: when in doubt, exit the market sooner the better!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hI On Thursday, Nov 22nd, I have just gone back into my Tradesim account. It says no trading when I tried to browse for contract orders. I wanted to offset the long position I have for soybeans and get a new short contract. I&#8217;m losing $5037 in soybeans. Not sure what has happened here. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/vyow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}