|| The Diary Game || 09-01-25||Making profit on trading and taking stock with my boss"

"Monday..morning..talking..about..me..while..am..making..money....hehehehehehehe...I..no..wanna..take..it..easy..you're..my..hater" is one trending song sang by one of the popular artist, Rema and it's the music I use as alarm by 6am. Making money where? Making money on crypto. My day begins with happiness as a made profit from the trade I set yesterday and ended with a busy day because of stock taking. Now let me start with the full details of my day.

I wake up by 6am with the help of my alarm as I need to prepare for work. First of all, I needed to do house chores which is very important. But I pick up my phone first to check a trade a made last night. I bought steem at the rate of 0.29 and set take profits at 0.31 since I couldn't be able to stay over night and be watching the chart or the movement of the market.

	picture showing the interest I made on my last trade

So as soon as I wake up, I checked my trading and I realized that the steem price had increased to 0.33 and the trade I place on 0.31 has been fill. I made a profit of $4, which about steem, 6400 in naira. I was happy and I get up smiling on my phone. Environmental sanitation happened every Thursday morning till 10am, we cleaned up the compound with other neighbors, then I did some laundry and I hung them out and I took my bath. Remember I need to do the sanitation too at our shop or it might be lock up by task force. On my way to the working place, I branch to a woman selling snack who's my customer as I always patronize her every week.

I bought some snacks, 2 buns and 2 fish-pie, buns is 50 naira while fish-pie is 200. So my total purchase Worth 600 naira. I paid with transfer and I left as I was almost late. It's was a 49min walk from home to my working place. When I gets to the shop, I changed up to a casual wear to do the environmental sanitation and failure to do so might end up locking your shop. I tidy up the environment, sweep, remove cobwebs and store my refuse properly.

sleeping	removing cobwebs

A customer who happens to be our regular called me to deliver a cway refill water to her house. She's a granny who doesn't have strength to carry heavy things so I help her to bring the water to her house. She was so happy and she send regards to my boss. I left immediately to continue with the sanitation.

cleaning inside the shop	disposing my dust bin properly

Thursday is always a general day for sanitation in the whole Lagos State and everyone, both public and private sector would resume by 10am. After making sure my shop environment is clean I started shading our goods outside as it already 20 minutes after 10. After shading everything I needed to clean up inside the shop as well , which I did, I brought out everything and checked the ones that's are not useful and dispose them in the dust bin. Meanwhile my phone stand was doing of the work of capturing the moment while I use the earpod on ear to take the shot.

Every month we always do stock taking to know our progress in the business, whether we're going forward or backward. So I arrange all the products stake by stake, Pepsi one stake, coke one stake, Malta Guinness one state and the rest. I arrange it like this for easy counting.

• When you do stock taking as I said earlier you'll be able to find out some goods that are moving and the dull one.

• Taking stock will help you to know the profit you made with in the month.

• Taking stock will also help you to know the particular good you need to invest on and the goods you need to sell out immediately.

So my putting all this together, you're been accountable to your business. Now let me start with how we take the stock.

Taking stock is very easy and simple depending on how you want to do. So I will share you guys how we did our own, maybe it can be useful to you too.

We take our stock by

• Calculating the total good bought in the month, e.g, total Malta Guinness, total Amstel, etc

• Counting and calculating the total goods sold within the month, eg how many Malta Guinness we sold in the month of December

• Counting and calculating the available goods in the shop. How many Malta Guinness do have at the moment, we will records it.

Mathematically we can say:

1. LS stands for last stock
2. GB stands for Goods bought
3. TG stands for Total Goods
4. S stands for Sold
5. C stands for current goods present.

Last month we have 19 Malta Guinness, we bought 10 pack and we sold 12½. How many do we supposed tb too have as C(current goods present)?
LS+GB
19+10= 29
Therefore TG= 29

We sold 12½, that's to say
TG minus S,
29 -16½ =12½
So our C which is the current goods present is 12½

my stock book showing good sold	my stock book showing the total good available

In a simple explanation add the total goods last month ans how many you bought within the current month, then subtract what you sold and will get the quantity that should be in the shop. The last step is to confirm whether what you calculated is the same with what you have in the shop, simple as that. The stock taking might take 2 to 3 days depending how much sales made within the month as we started on Monday 06-01-25 and we ended yesterday Thursday 09-01-2025.

The stock lasted till evening which I closed and gone home to rest, it's was a busy day though. I hope I have shared something sensible today with you. Thank you for reading.

Honourable mention: @missyleo @entity01 @emmaboy23,

📸Picture captured on Huawei G9