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My first thought was what does 0.05% here even mean... This is a strange way of defining loss. One man's paper loss is another man's realized loss dependent on stop loss or other algorithmic logic. That said, animal spirits. Valuation is all in the eye of the beholder.

Gonna take a brake for... a while, whether to end of year or next week. I've clearly done mental gymnastics this week to exceed my risk level. Stated risk is $600 yet I effectively built a $1800 risk position, at this point corresponding to more than 3% of account. If I do this I am going to...

Closed. Shit day, wouldn't surprise me if this is HOD for Russell lol.

Readded -80 short here. If breaking above 1600 convincing I quit for today and possibly week.

Russell back down. However, I was too chicken to re-enter -80 unit short at session start. If I'm "lucky" (or more accurately, remaining trade works out as intended) I might even be able to exit this with slight profit or better.

Ouch. Around -550 stopped out and obviously also on hook on wider stop trade. MFE around 200 so not at all that brilliant. I note that I break risk mgmt too and took too large trades last night exeeding 2x600, probably in some kind of subconscious martingaling. Subsequently rewarded by going...

Seems to have arrived at a comfort zone for tonight, going back to bed. If I could accept more risk I would add to short here, but I can't so yeah.

Uh yeah this is what you get for lack of patience (or need for sleep, got up on unrelated mail notification). US2000 now in uptrend last couple of mins. Extending stop of the narrow -80 position to 1596.70. Staying up monitoring a while to close if it goes fully to hell.

Sell US2000USD x -80 @ 1588.63 stop 1592.5 Following Nikkei's lead, narrow stop add on trade to get a bit more oomph on total play.

Sell US2000USD x -90 @ 1589.28 stop 1603.5 Will add a bit more to this short later at narrower stop mayhaps (expecting some immediate adverse excursion as I entered after some down movement). As for bigger picture, failure to get past 1600 on Russell is pretty indicative of momentum thinning out.

Buy USDSEK x 33000 @ 9.6376 stop 9.4630 Thinking this is a reasonable bet at lower part of channel of long term up trend. I basically don't trust my country's direction much... Besides, as soon as shit hits the fan USDSEK is a good proxy for risk aversion. Small bet since A) I suck a FX...

New week. No super interesting data this week. Chinese data today (not sure about time), US building permits Tuesday and Philly business index/Jobless claims Thursday are slightly potentially tradable events. Main thing is that new that everything is super positive again I am looking for a bear...

Mostly agree. If you are really good, you might be able to improve the signal using it as an input to another. For a quant studying market impacting features it's still relevant even if all basic strategies have no alpha left.

Closed at neutral +50, refusal to trend down. MFE +450. It was fine to bet profit on continuation here as I would have been in position to gain massively if so. Observed shitty Chinese macro so there was an idea behind it. Losing 600 earlier night because of putting on an unmonitored heavily...

Added -54

Sell ASX200 x -108 @ 6754 stop 6762 Last trade tonight. Same risk (600)

Nope stopped. -.-

Bleh ASX200 trade stopped and sound made me not sleep, -610 Should endure until session open for ASX

Chinese industrial output/retail sales 3 am my time, unfortunately can't stay up for that.

Sell ASX200 x -53 @ 6715 stop 6732