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Day’s Gain: $363.31

Today did not start off well, but ended up as a pretty good day. The only trade I made was buying 50 shares of NYX. At the beginning of the bell, it shot up 6% but I believe that this stock will go up to quite a bit in the next few months because of Euronext and the additional cost cutting it is able to do now that they are moving towards a more computerized trading platform. It ended up being a big winner today and it went up almost 2% since I bought it. I think it will continue to go up and up! I plan to go long with this stock.

I’m starting to sweat with Game Stop. Including the second 200 shares that I bought yesterday while it was going down, I totally have 400 shares in this stock and I believe I’m taking on a little bit too much risk with this stock since this is easily the biggest holding that I have right now. However, this is a trade (not an investment) and I think that it will go up next week because of all the console launches and also with people thinking that GameStop will beat the numbers as they are going to report on Nov 21. I kept my cool and there was a late day rally, which was partly caused by CNBC talking about the PlayStation 3 launch. This proves my point, and I’m sticking it in there and see what happens next week. The stock ended up 0.50% which was a complete reversal from earlier.