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Yes, I have seen some great traders here at elitetrader like sellingvol (not an exact id). I'm still a newbie compared to them. In the past, I have met some good traders who retired and managed their own funds. One thing I learned from them was that they had many "simple" strategies that anyone...

right, but i paid less since I have deductions

I didn't do well in March as I had losses in oil, gold, and company earnings. I plan to trade more conservatively until I start making profits...

I think they update the data every night. I'm not a computer guy so I've never used IB API.

Hi, 1) I use IB. 2) FS is connected with my IB account, so they pull PnL data automatically. My trading goal sounds aggressive, but I only trade with about $100k - If I generate the market performance, I wouldn't retire for a long time =) In the past, I had a chance to have an interview with...

I ended February with decent profit covering losses from last November and December. Looking back, I don't think I was able to survive on oil drop if I had more aggressive positions than what I had. I learned the lesson again that diversification was must on a leveraged portfolio (and never...

Good luck and hope you get back on the track soon with new strategy!

Over last few weeks, I started de-leveraging my positions on both long and short as I couldn't think of a good entry point. Personally, I'm not an expert in macroeconomics but I look at those data like disposable income, earning growth, housing index, retail sales... It seems for me that oil...

Great. Thank you so much!

Great point. Thank you. My background is in math/stats but never learned about C++ to automate trades. Any suggestion where I should start?

Passed 10% YTD mark...

For January, I'm still making mistakes on oil which I am long since November. I kept thinking about a relative value between oil and fiat currency, but this shouldn't be the approach on short term trading. The loss was offset by gains on dividends/covered call positions. The below is the...

Great post jk90029, Let me start looking into the overperformance carefully.

Good luck!

I had a different thread for last year with some details in positions, but I generally traded equity options and high yield stocks. I plan to do the same for this year since this approach happened to be the best fit for me. I tried fundamental approach (low valuation at unattractive industry)...

Not yet. My guess is that my performance has a high volatility that may be unattractive to their investors, but I will let you know if I get some attraction from them.

Last year, my goal was from $127k to $200k (or +57%) which I did by generating +64%. This year, my goal is to go from $92k to $150k (or +63%). My capital decreased as I was funding my several start-ups in peer to peer lending, pawnshop, and finance blogsite. The below is the snapshot of my...

Good luck! I think you should post your track record on fundseeder.

Interesting. I'm actually short on index for hedging purposes =)

a bit of update on my portfolio: http://rapacapintro.com/account/accounts?acc=U1014585 (benchmark is S&P500 index) YTD return: +90.51% Since 2012: +217.33% AUM: $108,031.37 I've not been actively trading due to my start-up in peer to peer lending business like LendingClub. Also, I passed...