WOW! What a wild morning. 4 seconds after the news came out and I got into a trade my computer froze. I was in my office and thought perhaps it was just my computer so I shut the software down, restarted it (panicking all the while) and it was still frozen. After a few more panicked minutes I called Global Futures and two of there servers had gone down. You could hear mayhem in the background of the phone call so I can only imagine what was happening. I asked them to get me out manually because she couldn't tell me when the software would be working again. Just when she had told me that she had gotten me out my software started working. I ended up getting 2 full points (when I had only put in a profit target of 1.25) so it actually worked in my favor, but it was scary happening, nonetheless. In our 7 months of trading I have never seen Global Futures system freeze or go down. Ironically we had our first Trading Arcade this morning so we had several people in our office trading, too. Three of them were live and only 1 of them had an issue with a frozen dome, the other two it didn't affect. I've also received emails from several other traders who it affected so I know geographically it was hit and miss. For those of who have attended our Boot Camp you were given an emergency contact card just for this type of situation and hopefully it came in handy for you today. I don't think it happens very often but when it does it's hair raising.
On to normal stats: Steffany got 1.0625 points, Don got 2.5 points, Josh got .75 points, Lindsey got 2 and Macey got 1.25. All of our live traders that came to our trading arcade also won this morning.
Tomorrow we have an Introduction Seminar at 10:00 a.m. at our South Jordan office at 10813 S River Front Parkway, Suite 300. We will also have a network meeting right afterwards at 11:30 for those Market Mover Traders who would like to attend to learn more about that aspect. Chris Pelissie will be teaching that class.
Today's Long and Short of It talks about "luck" in trading and The Two Cents gives great advice about small steps to better health:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbBlGp62930
Have a great Wednesday, Amy
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