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Thanks. I thought you were swingin' some size!

Hi d08, I am curious to know the number of positions involved with this profit and number of shares involved. Also, do you use a fairly tight stop after entry in case it doesn't go your way?

Initial Capital (2/10/2012) $30,000 Total Net Profit $952.97 (Per Share) $0.36 Gross Profit $1,156.25 Gross Loss ($203.28) Profit Factor 5.69 Total Number of Trades 99 Percent Profitable 78.79% Winning Trades 78 Losing Trades 21 Avg. Trade Net Profit $9.63 Avg. Winning Trade...

Initial Capital (2/10/2010) $30,000 Total Net Profit $624.18 (Per Share) $0.32 Gross Profit $859.23 Gross Loss ($235.04) Profit Factor 3.66 Total Number of Trades 73 Percent Profitable 76.71% Winning Trades 56 Losing Trades 17 Avg. Trade Net Profit $8.55 Avg. Winning Trade $15.34...

Symbol Open P/L Open P/L % Average Price Quantity Total Cost Description NSC ($95.20) -2.87% 70.47 47 $3,312 Norfolk Southern HOT ($35.60) -1.08% 54.95 60 $3,297 Starwood Hotels&ResWorldwide LLY ($29.30) -1.34% 39.15 56 $2,193 Lilly (Eli) FTI ($12.60) -1.16% 51.74 21 $1,087 FMC...

I launched my new improved strategy the later part of last week. Rather than trading only SPY, DIA, and QQQ, and their inverses, my basket will consist of the stocks in the S&P 500, and a variety of about 80 ETFs. I noticed when scanning all stocks, I would often end up over concentrated in...

I know it sounds like I am jumping around. It is more like taking my core strategy and looking at it in different ways, making adjustments, and then plugging it back into the system. I spend a great deal of type thinking about various “What ifs..?" I initially used Amibroker for portfolio...

Total Net Profit $3,668.97 (Per Share) $0.63 Gross Profit $4,378.33 Gross Loss ($709.36) Profit Factor 6.17 Total Number of Trades 100 Percent Profitable 68.00% Winning Trades 68 Losing Trades 32 Avg. Trade Net Profit $36.69 Avg. Winning Trade $64.39 Avg. Losing Trade ($22.17)...

I am providing a YTD update and talking about some changes I made. Today I stopped buying stocks and changed to a system that only trades the Spooz, the Q’s, and the Diamonds, as well as their inverse ETFs primarily when the inverse ETFs are below their 200 DMA. I don’t think returning to...

Hi NikEy, I did return to my previous strategy as I soon noticed that buying end of day stocks and slow moving ETFs was giving me too many scratch trades. The volatility just wasn’t there, I missed the intraday dips, and automating EOD trades was a bit tricky. I found I had to place my...

After a couple scratch trades, I am long 300 sh FXP UltraShort China, average price $24.62. I see some divergence, and a possible MACD crossover, although I didn't base my entries totally on this. We just need some bad news on China from the media now. I am currently down $23.

I reversed my position and thankfully recovered my losses. In the face of the overall recent market strength, and with the news of GILD buying a smaller biotech for its HCV drug last month, I quickly switched sides as it broke out to the upside. The S&P is back over its 200dma, so I will lay...

Reentered 200sh GILD short today, after stopping out earlier for a $35 loss on 100sh. I knew my first entry was not working out quickly. For me, fading the open on shorts doesn't work most the time. I do better in the afternoon, I think, when it appears a long bull run has lost power, and...

I closed out my SLV and GLD yesterday, quite by accident. I had some faulty logic in my strategy exit override code. Instead of condition1 AND condition2, the code read condition1 OR condition2, with condition2 being Exit_Override = True, so the strategy exited when condition1 was true, and...

I am aware of the correlation between gold and silver. I took the trades when no other signals presented themselves. I wanted exposure in both because one might perform better than the other one might in the short term. Yes, I consider them as a hedge for the broader market. I plan to leg...

Hi Camdo, I'll take a look at the strategy you mentioned. Sounds like a good method. No, that wasn't a typo on the GLD and SLV. Occasionally I may take "conviction trades" on ETFs. The GLD entry was somewhat spur of the moment, as I watched it breaking out of intraday resistance, and saw it...

. Hi KBaines, I often feel like you that hedging complicates things, and trading small the majority of the time is the solution. I am doing it just for a small psychological comfort when in a drawdown. Yea, the jury is not out on Elder, but it has been inspirational reading. I have always...

You can read my new journal here Hammering away, slow and methodical.

A new year deserves a new journal with a catchier title. You can read my first journal here Rol's Trading Journal. Starting balance will be 35K. It should be interesting to see what one can do with close to the minimum in a pattern day trader equities account. I removed 40K to pay off loans...