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Weekly Update: Week 15/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -2.5R Yearly Result: +1.5R Trend strategy (wins/total/result): 1/4/-1.6R Mean-reverse strategy (wins/total/result): 2/5/-0.9R Bad week. I have to do some research why these strategies are not working as...

Weekly Update: Week 14/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -0.6R Yearly Result: +4.0R Trend strategy (wins/total/result): 2/3/-0.1R Mean-reverse strategy (wins/total/result): 3/6/-0.5R Added mean-reversion strategy to my tool set. I use Bollinger Bands (200, 2)...

Weekly Update: Week 13/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -1.8R Yearly Result: +4.6R Number of trades: 5 Number of profitable trades: 2 Quiet week.

Made a little daily profits statistical calculation and find out (daily R sums): Sample size is still small (147) and this really isn't a big surprise, I did see similar results in currency trading, too. But does anybody knows why is it like this? According to this it would be more...

Weekly Update: Week 12/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: +2.1R Yearly Result: +6.4R Number of trades: 3 Number of profitable trades: 3 Quiet week and I probably had some trading fear from last week big losses and didn't want to take too many positions. But it is...

Weekly Update: Week 11/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -5.0R Yearly Result: +4.3R Number of trades: 13 Number of profitable trades: 1 Hard hard week. Many false breakouts and couple trader's errors. I'm thinking to drop my position size to three per cent per trade.

Weekly Update: Week 10/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -2.4R Yearly Result: +9.2R Number of trades: 21 Number of profitable trades: 8 Eight weeks of trading done and totally 130 trades. Following chart views the cumulative results so far: Not so surprisingly...

Weekly Update: Week 9/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: +3.9R Yearly Result: +10.9R Number of trades: 10 Number of profitable trades: 9 Good week, zero losing days. And less is more - only ten trades. I mark zero results as profitable trades too, and there were two...

Weekly Update: Week 8/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: +1.1R Yearly Result: +7.0R Number of trades: 12 Number of profitable trades: 7 Kind of quiet week except Wednesday that made my week.

Weekly Update: Week 7/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -2.2R Yearly Result: +5.9R Number of trades: 23 Number of profitable trades: 9 Whipsawing market and too many trades.

Weekly Update: Week 6/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: 3.7R Yearly Result: +8.1R Number of trades: 11 Number of profitable trades: 7 Very nice week. No exceptional wins or loss streak but steady growth. Volatility seemed to be quite same than the last week. Here is...

I keep journal here in ET too because I hope someday when my trading is not going very well someone will give me an advice that will make things better.. might be false hope but who knows..

Weekly Update: Week 5/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -0,8R Yearly Result: +4.4R Number of trades: 18 Number of profitable trades: 6 Whipsawing market and two stupid errors at Friday. Following image views the situation today. There were four (!) test to that...

Weekly Update: Week 4/2016 ========================================== Weekly Result: -1.9R Yearly Result: +5.2R Number of trades: 19 Number of profitable trades: 10 At Thursday I saw nasty -2.4R loss and other days had no action for my trading style. I did not trade consistently through the day...

Because this thread should cover year 2016 I will post previous two weeks results here too. I didn't trade first two weeks of the year because of my South African vacation (much needed sunshine) so the week 3 was my first trading week for this year. I use the R symbol for calculate my...