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There isn't much correlation between the strategies except market direction related, but between individual trades of each strategy. So if I am holding two positions in stock4 long - most of the time they will act the same way. Well, december was not quiet for some of my strategies like stock4...

Period Update for December 11/29/2014 - 1/3/2015 (5 weeks) Bad way to end the year, down 63K (19.5%). Rude reminder of what the market can do when you get complacent. I made 142K for October, the monstrous month earlier reported. Then thru the first few weeks of November (upto 19th November)...

Remind me again, what is 'Money Management'? :confused::confused::confused: I'm managing my own money. No???

Period Update for November 11/1/2014 - 11/29/2014 (4 weeks) Frustrating month, down $831 (0%). Its not the flatness of the month that makes it annoying, it is the needless loss of earlier gains of $100K for the month. Racked that up within the first three weeks only to go on a string of...

OK seems the market has once again put off this event - going two months without new high. Previous high Sep 19. Thought with the declines in early Oct, surely this was the time for it to happen.

I sure will try hard this time to hang on to my gains. I think I am getting over the impulse to rush things and be reckless when account balance swells.

I would think automation is the easy part. Going fully automated (meaning no discretion at all in choice and entry of trades day-in-day-out) is still something I am not yet at - There isn't any such strategy that I am pleased with the performance. My trading is what I call man-machine...

Period Update for October 10/4/2014 - 11/01/2014 (4 weeks) Monstrous month, up 142K (75%). Words are just non-existent to describe the feeling. First two weeks (coinciding with huge market declines) account for almost all the gain, with the last two weeks being lots of down/up ending to the...

Ending my day early (can't ask for more). Not sure why it is quiet here, even with this elevated volatility. Come on people, aren't we celebrating return of 2008-type volatility?

Loving this rebounce

Period Update for September 31/8/2014 - 10/4/2014 (5 weeks) Another great month, up 41K (26%). Its becoming a really nice uptrend. Stock4 is unstoppable at the moment. Also made it good from option4 after the prior month's set-back. No run-away loser this month. Making money in the market...

You just can't wait? :) Posting shortly - it was great!

Doesn't look like a dead strategy. Just a consolidation after a massive run!

stock3 is a strategy. The $10000 in Jan was the target profit set for the entire year on that strategy. In Feb instead of making a profit I lost 26K, mostly from one ill-advised trade (CRAY). Now the total loss on that strategy is just -2K, meaning I have recovered a substantial portion of that...

TRADES TYPE EXITDATE NETRETURN STOCK 2014-08-04-09-52-06 2573.8 STOCK 2014-08-04-11-08-09 8.7 STOCK 2014-08-05-09-55-04 67.2 STOCK 2014-08-06-10-27-09 1581.5 STOCK 2014-08-06-14-48-01 5321 STOCK 2014-08-06-10-46-20 -2468 STOCK 2014-08-06-15-55-18 3032 OPTION...

Period Update for August 8/2/2014 - 8/31/2014 (4 weeks) A good month, up 28K (22%). Another great month. Again failed finished well off the highs of the month. The last two weeks coincided with my vacation and fell into familiar routine of switching off my system to give free reigns to my...

You know there are FUNDAMENTALS and there are fundamentals - I certainly don't apply it intraday the way Warren Buffet does. As for prices remaining irrational much longer than a day, there is no question about that. But on average irrationality dissipates with time.

SPY already back at a new high. Not sure what it is going to take to have a correction - Or at least go two months without new highs. I may have to put a pause on my short strategies.

I trade stocks and stock options (liquid ones). Long/short stocks, long options (short-side didn't work out, so I stopped that). Time-frame mostly intraday or single overnight. I place greater emphasis on fundamental analysis (making prediction based on that), not relying on chart analysis...

I have a full-time regular job. That helps a lot.