I woke up this morning to hear about negative politics between Saudi Arabia, and Iran, The Chinese market crashing 7% in 7 minutes, and all sorts of random bad news that was dragging the US market down in premarket this morning. Despite all that, the stock I had been waiting to make me money since last week finally squeezed out some of the shorts. Sunedison (SUNE) was up nearly 13.16% for the day and I sold my 7000 shares in increments as it climbed for a net profit of $1902.47!
I also bought into 3D systems (DDD) at $8.95/share and sold off stupidly at $9.21/share for a small but very quick $245.83 profit. I also bought and sold Navistar International (NAV) on 3 separate swings for small but very quick profits of $56.72, $95.74, and $105.76!
All in all my portfolio value swung from $33,319 to $36,217.97 on the first trading day of the year! I'm 100% liquid right now, and might stay that way for the next couple days if the market continues to sour or I don't see anything worth buying. We'll see!