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Hey thanks jlancaster, and welcome to ET! I am ambitious. I think visualizing your performance through stats and charts is important. The feedback is helpful and it programs your sub conscious for success.

I have not posted an equity curve area yet since going live with my auto strategy system. This is about six months worth. I started with $30,000, but contributed along the way. This has juiced the results a bit, but I will take any advantage I can get :D . I think removing profits from the...

This is how portfolio paper trading looks ytd. It is surprising similar to how I actually did. Adding a penny slippage both ways, and $2 round trip commissions really made it more realistic. The 6% maximum drawdown is on a closing bar basis, but I recall being down 10% at one time intraday in...

Here is a comparison with the SP500. The next couple of days I will post a daily realized P/L chart for the quarter from my tax accounting software.

Total Net Profit $8,814.10 (Per Share) $0.12 Gross Profit $23,500.77 Gross Loss ($14,686.67) Profit Factor 1.6 Total Number of Trades 687 Percent Profitable 64.19% Winning Trades 441 Losing Trades 246 Avg. Trade Net Profit $12.83 Avg. Winning Trade $53.29 Avg. Losing Trade...

With the limited market exposure the past few days, the few trades the system made are still mostly profitable. The Hitachi trade worked out well. It just goes to show that you don’t have to predict the news that will move a stock. The reason does not really matter. You can fill in the...

Thanks ScalperJoe, Yes, stocks go up and down for many reasons, this is true. My time frame is < 3 days.

No, my auto trading system sold HMC for small profit Monday and small loss on BBY today. Neither trade was remarkable. :( My HIT entry from yesterday did much better today. :p

Didn't take a hit on this one. Some trades just work out well...

4 entries triggered on the opening drop today from my scan performed the night before that had resulted in about 130 names on the watch list. 2 exited at the close and I’m still holding the other 2. I was tempted to move my stops up, but refrained because they had already moved well in my...

Between the two, I would put my money on Honda also, but as it is, my strat put it on both. Right now Honda is ahead by 1%. My "stop" is to use small position sizing, and have a hard exit rule in place when in occurs.

I am currently down 0.82% in BBY, and down 0.14% in HMC. Should I be looking to cut my losses here and sell, or let the trades play themselves out? I guess what I am asking is, would you be a buyer here, sell short, or not bother at all? Since I plan to post the exits, I am curious on opinions.

Knock Knock

I'll be exited them in a day or so... just wanted to get a feel for opinions out there. So far two thumbs down. I'll post the exits when they occur.

Anybody else long these two losers like I am?

Is it buying at the bid and selling at the ask? (unlikely in real life)

Capturing the trend:

Total Net Profit $8,028.44 (Per Share) $0.11 Gross Profit $22,654.11 Gross Loss ($14,625.67) Profit Factor 1.55 Total Number of Trades 680 Percent Profitable 63.82% Winning Trades 434 Losing Trades 246 Avg. Trade Net Profit $11.81 Avg. Winning Trade $52.20 Avg. Losing Trade...

Do pull ups to failure, and then pushups to failure, and stretches, and slow deep breathing. Works wonders for me!

Today I reached a milestone by doubling my account size since going live 6 months ago with my auto trading. Granted about 40% of the gains came from contributions, $16,000 in profits is still an achievement for me. As the account net worth increases, contributions will have less and less of an...