Banglored! Part 1: Professional

Well! Two weeks to the day, I landed in Bangalore and how my life has taken a U-turn, I cannot stop wondering! In fact both professional life and personal life have been affected and affected big time!

First coming to the work front, the first week was a roller coaster for me. Although to be fair it wasn't the whole coming to Bangy reason. The markets also sensed the change in me and began showing their uglier side. I came on a high from Kolkata with my best three days back to back as the last three days there. And here I come to Bangalore; the second day I am into the office and Voila! my biggest lost ever! I wasn't expecting it but obviously you don't expect your losses or you will be well prepared for it before hand! The day was the day markets started turning ugly and it was my mistake as well so had to accept it any way!

Then next day with a thought somewhere back in my head, rather a quote by my manager/mentor - " The mistake lies not in hitting your stop losses and making losses but it lies in trying to recover it in a day or a session when you start trading emotionally and without reason. The biggest mistake is again making a big loss next day when you are stopped out of market". But the darkest fears came true and again I ended up substantially in red. Normally after this kind of couple of days, a trip to manager's cabin is mandatory but me being a trader from different branch and under a different manager nobody said nothing to me which I believe was a mistake on their part. Nevertheless the next day passed without much incident and me neither made money or lost it.

Then cometh Friday the most feared of all days! The first few hours went without incident but as the American hours started, it all started to become wrong for me. I kept trying and I kept loosing and after a while what happened is anybody's guess. I was stopped out of the market! A week long of trading in a new place has costed me almost $ 16000. But still I was pretty unfazed as it was the phase of market and almost every person in the company has lost big! So with all this happening it closed my worst week ever in the job.

Next week cometh, started trading with very small lots, almost scratched on monday, had a first profitable day in Bangalore on my seventh attempt on Tuesday. Got really frustrated on Wednesday because of my stupidity of losing money after making a decent amount, ended up on scratch. Didn't feel like going office on Thursday so bunked the office. And then come again the much feared Friday! Thursday was a disastrous day for the markets and traders and everything was going haywire. The sub-prime feeling of 2008 was back! And I was all prepared for it big time! I decided to trade with very very small lots and only outright. And the strategy clicked! I made infinite ins and outs of the market and had the best day in Bangalore and may be one of my top 10 days of my trading. But definitely the most satisfying experience of trading the market ever for me!

So this is how it has been for me in Bangalore on professional front. Now just waiting for the rebates, so that my accounts is in a healthy state and also praying the market remains like this for a considerable period of time! Ameen!

Well to long a post to be included the personal life part as well. So will break it into two and the second part will contain the personal life changes and experience in Bangalore.

Cheers!