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When it says "here are today's results", those are daily P&L changes. And yes, they're very real. I also post the weekly ones on Fridays 1k = 1000, so this week was down 17700 USD.

Another gruel trading week coming to an end (I'm glad this one is over). Down 11 days in a row now, and -17k7 for the week. That's about 6 month in mortgage payments, so I'm glad I could put the money to good use !!! Obviously nothing is working although at least the last two days I'm losing...

Very true on 97 and 98 as well ;)

Down day 10 Auto Trades: 678 Everything else: -853

Very true

Back to red for the year Here are today's results: Auto Trades: -3186 Everything else: -3074

I'm actually doing exactly the opposite. While its performance sucks right now (today looks like it'll be another ugly day) it does produce ok results in general. Right now you can just throw a dart if you want to buy something. I needed less short exposure, so I looked which stock in my...

Right now that's very true. What's strange is that even my auto-trades lose money, which in theory should be neutral. Having said that though it's probably not that strange since momentum stocks shine in this environment and I'm typically short those stocks and long the dogs in these trades.

It's true that the market has an upside bias (otherwise you'd be crazy to invest) but nothing like we've seen the last couple of years. I'm not even @ a gambler's fallacy here, most positions are put on neutral even after a run up like this but it eventually turns into another short as we keep...

I already cut my trade size on my shorts by 75%. That's what is saving me right now, my short position was significantly bigger just a couple month ago. This latest down move at least gave me a chance to close some of this. I can't just trade the long side. We are so overbought right now, this...

When I was looking for a picture that expressed my thoughts today I ended up seeing this one. As I click on it, the link goes to a book page. Funny that even this book is finance related. So many thoughts that go through my head, however it all comes down to this. I'm already down 10k for this...

And the streak continues. I entered a couple new orders this morning and turned my computer off when I realized it's just another roar up day. My issue is that once I realize that an hour into the trading day, the market really didn't move any more but hung around 2 S&P points. I guess we're...

Most of them (270) are auto-pairs trades. Don't need to monitor much on them. I glance through them once a day to make sure nothing broke in the algo or there's no take overs/mergers but they are minimal management. They do however run for several weeks as typical swing trades, so I can't just...

Absolutely correct. that's where my trading comes short. I'm a true believer in mean reversion, so anything that trends will throw me off. Having said that, I don't really day trade, so most of my positions are swings and there's over 300 total positions, so they will always skew the results...

Yea, I can't say it's fun, however this is the mini version of this roller coaster. When I was more leveraged (beginning of this thread) the results would be at least twice as big (up and down).

I usually do this every 6 month to figure out if there's any correlation with my results and the S&P returns. It's usually very small (between .2 to .38 at the highest) however right now (last two years) I'd have done much better just mirroring the S&P returns.

That's the sound that the market made as it ran over me this week. I'm still not sure what hit me but my P&L for this week was -17k3. There wasn't anything that worked in my trading, I got hurt the most with the nasdaq going crazy and bonds going nuts. Today was a very short glimmer of hope when...

5th down day in a row. Unreal. Just like the rally in the S&P futures the last couple minutes. There's going to be a serious markup on tomorrow's expiration. Here are today's results: Auto Trades: 2037 Everything else: -3122

Terrible trading day, the down streak continues. A week ago I couldn't stop thinking about allocating more money to the auto-trades since they did so well, now I can't stop thinking about pulling money out of there. In reality I've kept my position allocation constant and will do so until year...

Not sure if this was mentioned already but it would be great to have the page navigation (1,2,3,4,... 58) on the top of the posts as well as the bottom (it's already @ the bottom but I don't see it @ the top). I like the new look & feel especially on the phone it's much better to read/browse...