Poker, Trading & Programming - PGC 2020
01-23-2020
, 02:17 PM
Hello everyone, I'll keep this thread as a journal to not do -EV life things and try to hold myself accountable for as much stuff that's going in in my life as I can. I'm going to play NL50 and NL100 for now on the weekends, since poker is not my number one priority in life and I have a job and other life plans, plus the games are soft on these days. So, I'm not gonna play a lot of volume probably, but just make sure to be in the best games and make the most EV+ decisions. I'll try to discuss more hands with ZKesic, but that's about it.
I'm 24 and from Slovenia, had no idea what to do after high school and worked part-time jobs (also dabbled in poker form time to time and eventually did shots at NL100, while also sitting at NL500 few times due to boredoom and feeling my A game) to get by and have a normal life, then decided to give CS college a try and figured out after a year that it's a huge waste of time and large -EV move (in my case), since I want to go into web development & UI/UX design.
Part of the reason I left college is also that I got a very well paying job offer in Austria and I only have to work 3 or 4 times per week, while earning almost twice as much as a good paying job in Slovenia would net me (not to mention 13th and 14th pay that you get in Austria).
So while I make decent wage working 3-4 times per week and also have weekends off, I still got a lot of time to kill and try to make something happen. My most important goal is to get a job in Austria as a Full Stacked Web Developer or start freelancing by the end of the year and open my own small business with web services & mobile apps. I also have 2 huge projects I want to do on my own by the end of the year, but it will take time since I'm a one man team for now and just want to learn as much as I can. While I know my way around HTML/CSS/JS(Bootstrap), PHP(Laravel), Node.js (Express),.. and built some smaller social media websites that require a bunch of back end logic.. I want to also have to learn more about Java and mobile apps, since most people use phones anyway.
Programming aside, I have to work on my German language as well and be proficient in it.
Last thing, I also like to trade, primarily GOLD and either scalp or swing trade. Sometimes I like to trade indexes, forex, commodities and stocks also, anything where I think a good R:R ratio is and the fundamentals and technical analysis aligns with stars. When it comes to trading GOLD, I most keep an eye on latest geopolitical events/diseases/indexes, etc.. anything that can disrupt peace or make peace. However, from technical standpoint I usually use only Volume Profile and local supports/resistances/watch for breakouts. I also tried trading with market orderflow and volumetric bars, but will have to look more into it, since I didn't really feel comfortable.
Anyway, small steps go long way, so let's try make some side profit and open my own small business this year
. Also meet some new people on here and connect with other traders/programmers .
My latest setup for GOLD, I don't want to spend 15 minutes explaining it, but there's a strong 1550$ level I believe and with indexes starting to slow down from the recent rally and coronavirus/Iran news threats, I think it's just matter of time before it explodes again up into 1580$. Short term 1568$ level is arguably short term resistance, but I'm currently long in gold for a week or so, until it won't pop, since I feel things are coming together for it to pop. I also don't like sweating over every hour, so I just let the price to run out and hit my TP points, instead of sweating how the candles look every 1 hours or whatever. Sometimes I like to scalp, but other times, I just like to open position and check it at the end of the day or week and keep my mental health.
I'm 24 and from Slovenia, had no idea what to do after high school and worked part-time jobs (also dabbled in poker form time to time and eventually did shots at NL100, while also sitting at NL500 few times due to boredoom and feeling my A game) to get by and have a normal life, then decided to give CS college a try and figured out after a year that it's a huge waste of time and large -EV move (in my case), since I want to go into web development & UI/UX design.
Part of the reason I left college is also that I got a very well paying job offer in Austria and I only have to work 3 or 4 times per week, while earning almost twice as much as a good paying job in Slovenia would net me (not to mention 13th and 14th pay that you get in Austria).
So while I make decent wage working 3-4 times per week and also have weekends off, I still got a lot of time to kill and try to make something happen. My most important goal is to get a job in Austria as a Full Stacked Web Developer or start freelancing by the end of the year and open my own small business with web services & mobile apps. I also have 2 huge projects I want to do on my own by the end of the year, but it will take time since I'm a one man team for now and just want to learn as much as I can. While I know my way around HTML/CSS/JS(Bootstrap), PHP(Laravel), Node.js (Express),.. and built some smaller social media websites that require a bunch of back end logic.. I want to also have to learn more about Java and mobile apps, since most people use phones anyway.
Programming aside, I have to work on my German language as well and be proficient in it.
Last thing, I also like to trade, primarily GOLD and either scalp or swing trade. Sometimes I like to trade indexes, forex, commodities and stocks also, anything where I think a good R:R ratio is and the fundamentals and technical analysis aligns with stars. When it comes to trading GOLD, I most keep an eye on latest geopolitical events/diseases/indexes, etc.. anything that can disrupt peace or make peace. However, from technical standpoint I usually use only Volume Profile and local supports/resistances/watch for breakouts. I also tried trading with market orderflow and volumetric bars, but will have to look more into it, since I didn't really feel comfortable.
Anyway, small steps go long way, so let's try make some side profit and open my own small business this year
. Also meet some new people on here and connect with other traders/programmers .My latest setup for GOLD, I don't want to spend 15 minutes explaining it, but there's a strong 1550$ level I believe and with indexes starting to slow down from the recent rally and coronavirus/Iran news threats, I think it's just matter of time before it explodes again up into 1580$. Short term 1568$ level is arguably short term resistance, but I'm currently long in gold for a week or so, until it won't pop, since I feel things are coming together for it to pop. I also don't like sweating over every hour, so I just let the price to run out and hit my TP points, instead of sweating how the candles look every 1 hours or whatever. Sometimes I like to scalp, but other times, I just like to open position and check it at the end of the day or week and keep my mental health.
Last edited by Je$ter; 01-23-2020 at 02:28 PM.
01-26-2020
, 08:26 AM
Pokerstars is banned and to play on PartyPoker you need to have old account I think.
You still have GGPoker and iPoker and some other stuff, there's official dedicated Slovenian poker forum you should check out and probably register and ask around there, since I'm not sure about everything you asked.
http://si.pokerpro.cc/ponudba/ -> allowed sites
http://si.pokerpro.cc/forum/index.php -> forum index
Contact CoreySteel or Bebik, I'm sure they'll help you if you have any additional questions. I'm not sure how much you are risking with playing on foreign sites.
In other news, I grinded NL50 & NL100, but I can't get my hands to import correctly into PT4, so I'll try to fix that. It's missing a lot of hands and it's not even worth posting any graph until that's resolved.
In trading news, market did what I expected it to do, since it seems it's over-extended due to stock rally and is finally beginning to slow down, as I said in my first post. Other than that, I'll just post my short, medium and long term view on GOLD and some cataclysts. Now we can debate what the "EXACT" cataclysts are, but this is just my opinion and there's tens of other opinions also.
Short term I think this is POC and where long positions will be build. Will it pop tomorrow out of this zone? Not sure, might, might not. By the end of the week and few more fear mongering news/stocks falling, I'm pretty sure it's going out of here and the sweet thing is the next "real" resistance is the previous two wicks, so there might be a nice move in short term.
short term
medium/long term profit taking zones and local resistances to put in a quick short
You still have GGPoker and iPoker and some other stuff, there's official dedicated Slovenian poker forum you should check out and probably register and ask around there, since I'm not sure about everything you asked.
http://si.pokerpro.cc/ponudba/ -> allowed sites
http://si.pokerpro.cc/forum/index.php -> forum index
Contact CoreySteel or Bebik, I'm sure they'll help you if you have any additional questions. I'm not sure how much you are risking with playing on foreign sites.
In other news, I grinded NL50 & NL100, but I can't get my hands to import correctly into PT4, so I'll try to fix that. It's missing a lot of hands and it's not even worth posting any graph until that's resolved.
In trading news, market did what I expected it to do, since it seems it's over-extended due to stock rally and is finally beginning to slow down, as I said in my first post. Other than that, I'll just post my short, medium and long term view on GOLD and some cataclysts. Now we can debate what the "EXACT" cataclysts are, but this is just my opinion and there's tens of other opinions also.
Short term I think this is POC and where long positions will be build. Will it pop tomorrow out of this zone? Not sure, might, might not. By the end of the week and few more fear mongering news/stocks falling, I'm pretty sure it's going out of here and the sweet thing is the next "real" resistance is the previous two wicks, so there might be a nice move in short term.
short term
medium/long term profit taking zones and local resistances to put in a quick short
01-27-2020
, 12:54 AM
Quick update, woke up to see my profit taking zone hit and now the question is where to start adding position. To which I think will be in green zone, since that is old resistance that will start to act as a support probably. Again, just my thoughts and how I'm playing this out. I might buy it prematurely at 1579 right now and could be super greedy by waiting to go down a it more, but meh. Now the plan is to sell into that 1610$ wick and put in a quick short when it hits the zone.
Anyway, nice little 300€ grab from this.
Anyway, nice little 300€ grab from this.
