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I looked at my trades for the day tonight, and got a kick out of my SON entry. The stock traded 755,094 shares today, and those are my 100 shares that traded at the low! I currently have 1k of unrealized losses and exposure is 71%, so my entry with SON is just a novelty.

Initial Capital (7/1/2011) $73,028 Total Net Profit $2,158.66 (Per Share) $0.11 Gross Profit $5,972.55 Gross Loss ($3,813.89) Profit Factor 1.57 Total Number of Trades 160 Percent Profitable 54.38% Winning Trades 87 Losing Trades 73 Avg. Trade Net Profit $13.49 Avg. Winning Trade...

I floss while in the shower, while doing squats (multi tasking)! Also, you may be interested in "oil pulling". I am not sure of all the reported health benefits, but it sure gets rid of morning breath, and makes the gums and teeth feel clean. I do pull ups, pushups, back bends, and...

In the spirit of keeping this journal somewhat entertaining, I thought I would post the largest winning trade when it occurs each month. Here is the largest winning trade so far for July. I don't know if IB has this feature of displaying actual trades on a chart, so if not, it will be...

Hi jtrimbe, The platform I use is TradeStation. It does much more in depth analysis than what I have posted. The quarterly charts of daily realized p/l come from Trade Accountant tax software. I created a macro to automatically generate and then export the report from TradeStation to MS...

I got a substantial reversal in many of my positions today. I had been in a 3.5% DD yesterday from my July 1 balance. I made fresh all-time equity highs also today. I am posting a flavor of my trading today. At one point I had about 37 positions going. I had several profit stop losses in...

Initial Capital (7/1/2011) $73,028 Total Net Profit $780.79 (Per Share) $0.05 Gross Profit $3,699.28 Gross Loss ($2,918.49) Profit Factor 1.27 Total Number of Trades 120 Percent Profitable 54.17% Winning Trades 65 Losing Trades 55 Avg. Trade Net Profit $6.51 Avg. Winning Trade...

Hi NikEy. It is an honor to have you create your username and make your very first post in my journal! I seem to attract relative newcomers to my journal. I bet the veterans here all think I will blow up eventually so are staying away :p. There are some, I believe who are more interested in...

"B" simply indicates account net worth, which always includes unrealized P/L. The only change from the prior close to beginning day open would be after hour's changes, which usually are not that great. I copy and paste all of the numbers from the TS platform, so I assure everyone no funny...

Hi heech, thanks for following along. I read many of your posts on ET and respect your opinion and knowledge. Since everything is MTM, the Beginning Day Account Net Worth included the ~$1700 DD, which I recovered from today. A ~ B + C + D + $1700. I like the number crunching that...

Initial Capital (7/1/2011) $73,028 Total Net Profit $35.80 (Per Share) $0.00 Gross Profit $1,317.57 Gross Loss ($1,281.77) Profit Factor 1.03 Total Number of Trades 58 Percent Profitable 48.28% Winning Trades 28 Losing Trades 30 Avg. Trade Net Profit $0.62 Avg. Winning Trade...

The 2nd quarter continued in up trending fashion, with some spikes along the way. The spike up on 5/4 was the VSEA buyout and the spike down on 5/23 was chiefly due to WFC. I felt a warm fuzzy feeling about Wells Fargo because I recently refinanced with them, opened a checking/savings, and got...

The backtest results are unreliable. Besides, I trade differently.

Here is a summary of my trading YTD. I would say the numbers are minimally acceptable. I want to keep the APR over 72%, to double account size each year. If anything, this journal is making me understand I am in this for the long haul. With patience, I can be triumphant. I wish to commit to...

I managed a healthy comeback for June, coming back from an 8% DD, and ending the month with a 3.56% return on initial capital of $65,035. I am now 100% in cash. It was a turbulent month to say the least, but I am stronger from it. I plan to post results for the 2nd quarter and YTD this...

Yes, I considered it here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3199681#post3199681 ETFs have an equal chance of getting my attention as stocks. However, in general I have avoided commodity ETFs for rtm trading due to their strong directional bias. Spreads are too big...

At 14:44:12 New York time I panic sold all of my positions ( Ctrl+F12 for TS users). It was purely impulsive behavior as I observed my NW reach a nice round number of 73K. I knew Mr. Market was aware of how fond I am of nice round numbers, and refused to let Him steal my joy. Real-time...

The bulk of today’s profits came from an opening fade in QUAD. I placed a stop to capture a minimum $300 profit which soon got hit, because I feared the volatility and volume spike. Around high noon I placed several trades in oil related names that I will hold overnight. I am up $250 on my...

Regarding the two recent posts about my strategy, I am well aware that portfolio back testing skews the results by not looking at intraday data. I don't need go to the trouble and expense to do intraday testing to show me what I already know. The back testing only laid the groundwork for...

Cannot say it is the smoothest monthly equity curve experienced, but it does appear to have formed a classic Cup with Handle. So far the handle has not broken. In this market, I will take any positive return I can get. The S&P is up about 1% for the year. It is funny to me that the annual...