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Weekly update: I managed to outperform the market again this week. I think this is another spectacular week in that this was the worst week of the market since 2011(well thats what the CNN article says). My performance for the week came in at -3.5% compared to -7.2% and -5.5% for the QQQ and...

Hitting my numbers beyond my expectations. I have built up some short positions in KGC and YELP. I trimmed my STZ position by 1/3 and closed out ICE. FIT ended up surprising me as well with a nice gain. ROI from my Oct 13 2014 start date is now 43.09%. Only 7% away from my goal of 50%! I...

Picked up 400 sh of FIT @ 43.26

My current holdings Long: ICE 63sh @229.22 SUM 600sh @25.71 MTD 50sh @326.00 STZ 200sh @117.52 FLT 77sh @156.85 Short: MU 450sh @19.01 Watchlist: HIFR ELLI SRCL FCAU AMBA TDG AVOL ODFL I do want to stress that I was stopped out of multiple names and lost money on several stocks before getting...

Thanks and don't worry you do not influence me at all.

I feel like it is worthwhile to point out how good of a week I had. I had a small gain of 0.5% while SPY and QQQ performed at -1.25% and -1.48%. The spread of my performance vs the overall market is quite substantial, and I came in at just about a 2% performance gain against the QQQ's. Super...

I was unfortunately stopped out of MBLY on the morning sell off and it ended up recovering the huge swing EOD. It happens :(

I see you use Interactive Brokers. Could you post your PnL as a percentage so we can see how you are performing ytd or however long you have been trading your strategy? I would be interested in seeing it. Something like what I am doing in my journal would be cool(I use IB as well)...

I think what you are trying to say is that its sales are comparable to that of a small cap, but the reality is that there is over 13 billion in market value standing behind this company. This would consititute it as a large cap by most industry standards. One can argue it is not worth that...

Yes I have four of my Longs reporting this week. So I will most likely be getting a huge bump or bust in PnL. I would categorize MBLY as a Large cap stock and yes they are from Israel. The whole concept of ADAS is here to stay and is just growing immensely. So I am excited about the...

My portfolio continues to struggle with that 63-64k profit point. The market has been choppy, but I have my portfolio pretty heavily invested and set. None of my holdings are close to being stopped out either. One delightful observation is that my portfolio is in a uptrend while the major...

I don't think I could ever get back to that previous risk level. The late April drawdown has to much impact on it. I have no interest in managing people's money atm. The only thing that interests me would be working for a financial institution as a trader.

I use a 9% stop loss. I have been able to always honor this rule by having a different stock to rotate in when my stops do get hit. It allows me to look at the stop loss more as rotation into a different stock and a new opportunity. It is a lot of work as you always have a new stock...

I believe that the aging U.S. infrastructure is going to be needing some serious work in the near future. What are some investment ideas to take advantage of if this were to play out. Here are a few that I found: Summit Materials(SUM) - aggregate producer, smaller than their big brothers VMC...

Well my risk measures are starting to become attractive again. In particular, my Sharpe Ratio is up to a 2.61 which is mildly impressive. I think I can do better though. I am back to cash for the weekend. My margin levels got up to about 50% for about 3 days as I decided on Tuesday to add...

I was discouraged to keep posting after taking an extremely large loss in LNKD due to a 25% gap down on bad earnings. On top of that HII also gapped down from bad earnings. The market has been extremely volatile and I was stopped out of a number of other names, adding to my losses. The losses...

Yes LNKD will be wild this week, I like how it is managing to move higher while Facebook keeps trending down.

Always from purchase price. Don't push it back. Taking a loss on a company never bothered me for more than a day. In fact it feels great to free up that capital and put it towards a new idea. Something that helped me not get so down was to always have a new stock ready to buy. That way you...

Well I did not completely avoid the October correction as I started my PnL on October 13 which was 3-4 days away from the end of the selloff. So I managed to do decent for those few days as you can see, but I take no credit for avoiding that sell off. For the January lull we had, it was most...