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Weekly Update for week 18 ended 05/16/2008 Another good week, up 11K (9.4%). Pleased to have a third week of decent performance. Made money Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and gave back a little on Thursday. Did not trade on Friday as I was away. Made some money buying FLR call after their...

Just one week of less than 1% loss, and you are reducing size! Does your strategy call for making money every single week? Would be an interesting strategy to discover.

I back-tested with up to a year of market data, and the results were encouraging. Of course the idea of a potential strategy comes to me with watching the market. I then proceeded to code and went live! But in life, things do not go as smoothly. Your back-test may say you could get it at this...

Weekly Update for week 17 ended 05/09/2008 Another good week, up 11K (10.3%). In some way it was a disappointing week. Was up about 10K on my automated trades until two disastrous trades that lost 12K between them, making for a net loss of 2K on my automated methods. I have since shut down...

Given your historical results, don't you think this is VERY conservative, given you are in only one position (mostly) at a time, and you have a 25% stop loss. Of course past performance is no guarantee of future results, but given such a record, I would be upping my outlay to say 30% per trade...

Sarvise has put some positive spin on this. Yes, I've been like a plane taxi-ing endlessly and not making much headway. Just wait for the take-off! The distance is not as far away as you think. I just hope I can take off pretty soon. In any case better to taxi on one spot, than to take off...

Haha...Very observant...Try observing some patterns that earn real money in the markets. Lets look at the positive angle: Losing 16% like I did two weeks ago a number of times could cause my account to flame out, and the journal to shut down like some have done. So these folks are genuinely...

Weekly Update for week 16 ended 05/02/2008 A good week, up 11.5K (12%). Glad to have some recovery after last week's set-back. Discretionary trades yielded all the profits. The automated strategies cost about 3K, as the strategies are still trying to establish themselves, coupled with a...

If I read his initial comments correctly, his programs look at a lot of parameters, and sometimes go with the trend, and sometimes fades a trend (reversals). Since his programs appear robust enough, he sometimes does go both directions (put and call) based on both bullish trends and bearish...

The 10% rule is an over-all maximum that is implemented by my positions monitor when I do not put in a stop loss.Fading stocks like PGNX and putting a 2% stop loss is like saying: Collect my 2% freely. It is almost guaranteed to be filled. So a wider stop was called for; I do not like how it got...

I believe your position manager is to get you information on your account balances, positions, order status etc. How did you implement this? through FIX or broker-dependent API?

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Just use the tags [ code] ... [ /code] to mark the area you want to retain your formatting (remove the space before the word "code". Had to put it to make the words appear when posted). That way ET will retain your fixed width spacing done with Notepad. B/F = Brought Forward C/F=Carried...

Weekly Update for week 15 ended 04/25/2008 Humbling week, down 18.5K (16.2%). Really frustrating week, capped by a disastrous loss on Friday. Did put a new set of automated strategies to work from Tuesday. It was not a good start, losing 5.8K for the week on automated trades. A flurry of...

Sorry to hear that. I thought you must have surely nailed the week with that UAUA call.

Coming up nicely. You could retire sooner than you think at this rate. Keep it up.

It's probably not so much the lessons learnt as the lessons I keep re-learning which are evident from the weekly posts: * Make sure every trade is planned (entry, exit, timing, position size) and stick to those plans. * Accept some trades will be losers, and do not average in blindly. In...

Weekly Update for week 14 ended 04/18/2008 Good week, up 14K (14.0%). Glad to have made up the loss of last week, plus more. Lots of trades that went nowhere, tiny gains and losses, except the two below, a loser and a gainer. On Tuesday bought CROX to my detriment. I saw it in...