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The month-by-month analysis of performance by strategy is attached. Like I mentioned, I wont revise the projections made in early March until at least one month from now, even though they are nor more reflective. stock4 has obviously been the star of the show this month.

The position sizes (%-wise) is no more than I have been using in Jan and Feb. They are less than 100% of AV, except for the cases where averaging is permitted (few). Volatility in individual stocks have been bigger than normal in March, hence the bigger gains. Also as my account balance...

Period Update for March 3/1/2014 - 3/29/2014 (4 weeks) Closing my month with one more trading day left, as I will likely be too occupied next week-end with my office work. What a spectacular month it was, up 57K (58%). The slight return of volatility spurred strategy stock4 into...

So what are you selling, so we may PURCHASE?

For the remainder of the year (Mar - Dec 2014) I am re-setting targets for each strategy earlier mentioned. I am still maintaining an overall target of 100K for the year, but with some reshuffling among the strategies. I have increased target on option2 because of the current good result, and...

Updates are done monthly. Week-end following last trading day of the month.

One thing I did at the beginning of the year was to group my trades into strategies, and set targets for the years expected performance. These are figures I thought were realistic targets for each strategy (not overly optimistic, and not too conservative as well). Attached is the sheet showing...

Not at all. It is not curve-fitting when I set out the year with stated aim to avoid trades initiated outside my system, and then the trade in question Is the only trade this year initiated outside my system (shut down the automation to initiate it).

Yes, I am always looking at past performance for improvement on my strategies, but I will not over-analyse, otherwise I will simply be trying to curve-fit. Like you mentioned, options were losers for much of last year, but have now shown good performance this year. Even for stocks, back out the...

Period Update for February 2/1/2014 - 3/1/2014 (4 weeks) Ugly month, down 24K (19%). Basically wiped out my gains from January with one stupid trade on 2/14. The month was lacklustre until then, and wasn't going to be remarkable, but somehow managed to make it memorable on that day. That...

Thanks. I will try out 3.9.8a and see

Yes, when I add it initially from the chain, it displays, but closing my screen and later opening up QT, the lines are all blank. If I add to portfolio from the API, no quotes are fetched (ex BIDU_022814C180 on the screen below). I hear you. When is API support coming for MT?

Can't get my option quotes to update in QT (using TD Ameritrade Streamer). Not fetching quotes. Stocks are fine. Anybody having similar issue? version 3.9.8

Sorry, I was busy at work and really didn't care much about trading other than watch CRAY add insult to injury by going back to where it belongs - below my average entry price. I have thought about renting collocated server, but I am not quite sure what it means for the privacy/security of...

CRAY now down 12.5% to where it belongs, after milking me of my money. Nice work retards. They knew I wouldn't hold overnight.

Those quotes are from Ed Seykota. I would like to bookmark him as a trader, not a philosopher or psychologist. Over the years, I have been observing things that have hindered my trading, and taken steps to diminish their influence. The last such series of steps made me introduce the...

Thanks for bringing to memory those trades. I think I need to create a banner of those tickers and nail it by my home computer. Maybe, just maybe, it could stop the next attempt at overriding my system. I wonder what I was thinking when I decided to power down the computer. Is it because the...

And how often does a stock give basically a flat guidance, opens up 10%, runs to close the day, up +39% with no noticeable pullback? I keep scratching my head trying to find a reason for this mad move. Of course it is no justification for initiating a trade outside my system, or averaging...

What about farming out part of the development and testing to the ET community?:D

Awful on CRAY. Down 28K. Stayed at home today, turned off my system, and ... familiar story. So much for my commitment to discipline.