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    Commodity Trading Journal

    Current Value: US$93277.23x1.25628 = S$117,182.31 A slump overnight turned to a rally with greece issues *sort of* fading away and overall sentiment turning better. My shorts continued to stay down. My mind is yelling me to long natural gas but...
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    Commodity Trading Journal

    Current Value: US$91905.84 x 1.25990 = S$115,792.16 The fall in stocks overnight was not unexpected, my net long position suffered but still supported by my shorts. Looks like a bit more to fall over the next few days, but I expect things to recover next week.
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    Does this Certifies Hedge Fund Certification certificate hold any sway?

    think the best certification is still an audited >15% p.a. performance with a sharpe of >1.5x over 2 or more years.
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    Commodity Trading Journal

    Current Value US$92459.35 x 1.26097 = S$116,588 US$ = United Stated Dollars S$ = Singapore Dollars * Rationale for Singapore currency reporting: While I trade in USD, I have hedged my funds to Singapore dollars because it is based on a basket of currencies including Yen...
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    Commodity Trading Journal

    I was thinking of moving my blog posts to this journal, but encountering some difficulties with navigating to the right places. I'm still experimenting with increasing my frequency of posts, but I don't want to be a slave to the journal. I thought posting performance % would be good, but...
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    Commodity Trading Journal

    Early march fatigue seems to be setting in, with my long positions taking a bit of a tumble. I'm taking double and triple looks at natural gas - is there a long opportunity here? I'm still looking. Crude is down, but you never can be sure it will keep down. I reckon the fatigue will...
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    Commodity Trading Journal

    My track record since I opened an account with Saxobank in Aug 2011 are as follows: Aug: +7.11% Sep: +0.15% Oct: -2.64% Nov: -1.09% Dec: +1.45% Jan: +4.60% Feb: +4.32% Going forward I will post my results here on a monthly basis, with some commentary.
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    Commodity Trading Journal

    This month's return was +4.32%, on the back of excellent crude and copper positions. Generally, almost any long positions would prove profitable. I'm starting to put some shorts in certain commodities as of beginning March. I have increased the account size to about $92k.
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    Why do 5% of Traders Win?

    depends. does 1% p.a. constitute a win? does trading $10 with a return of 500% constitute a win?
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    New brokers growing like mushrooms

    there's a lot of money in china looking for ways to invest, brokers who can crack this china regulatory puzzle will make heaps.
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    Honest broker for trading from SE Asia

    there's thinkorswim in singapore now..
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    Commodity Trading Journal

    I have been trading commodities equities and currencies for more than 10 years. I am now starting a thread to track in a public forum, my commodities trading performance. I have put a small amount (currently about USD59k*) in a brokerage account that I have opened. I had started with USD16k...
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