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No, I haven't got discouraged. Actually my trading looks as good as ever before. I'm up nicely for the year with minimum risk, I'm 70% in cash now, and I keep looking & finding new oportunites. What I have found though is that must comments here on ET are not very productive. While there a...

I agree drowdown is a fact of life, however my drowdown last month have been too drastic, so that sugested to me that I need to do some changes to my strategies which I hope to incoperate over the coming months. This was my first real setback in my 30 month trading, and there where some...

MONTHLY UPDATE AUGUST 31 • Personal account values as of today’s close is $549,593 The account value in the beginning of the 2011 was 569k, a loss of around 19.5k year to date which is around 3.5% loss year to date. Below I have also included the monthly results since I started this...

I would agree. This is strange

not sure if you know, but ET dosent allow that..

Hope you didnt get confused..just realized I was not logged in with my username (I am out of the office the weekend and have used someone’s computer). Obviously not great... VIX had the biggest 1 day % increase since 2007, and the market had the worst week since end of 2008. Having said...

Also I am looking to open a new brokerage account and would like to hear some advice from you guys. I am considering either optionexpress or thinkorswim, both of them you can trade a wide range of products and I hope I will be able to negotiate a good commission rate. Which of the 2 would you...

MONTHLY UPDATE JULY 29 REVIEW • Personal account value as of July 29 close was $ $680,626. • Incubator hedge fund value as of July 29 close was $111,519. • In July there were 2 clouds hanging over the market, Greece/Europe in the beginning of the month, and the debt ceiling by the...

Not sure I can help you since, since I am not "trading the trend". Generally speaking I wouldn't advise not to trade because there is chaos, if anything, the opposite is true as long as you have a long time horizon, and are well diversified (Buy when there is blood in the streets..)

MONTHLY UPDATE JULY 29 • Personal account values as of today’s close is $680,626. The account value in the beginning of the 2011 was 569k, a profit of 111k year to date which is around 19.6% return year to date. Below I have also included the monthly results since I started this thread...

What do you mean?

Every single asset class (besides volatility) has been falling today so I expect will have rebound very soon..

Any leveraged bear ETF works for me, however it depends on your time horizon. If your time horzion is 3-6 months (or if the most important factor is your sharpe ratio) then its not for you. If your time horizon is 2-5 years and your don't care how it will do in any given month you are...

Thanks so much, just make sure to mention that I'm not sure I'm by the point to manage money yet...

I use interactive. Don’t have an auditor now for incubator yet, but will get all past results audited when/if I do a full launch.

I appreciate your advice heec. (By the way I currently have close to 900k in my combined accounts 728k + and 11k + I am sure there some more of you that could share some advice, looking forward.

I know you laid out some options, my question is what is your "suggestion/recomendation" ? are you recomending I should start launching now and look for individual investors? Thanks

Thanks for your comments. First I think everyone can use advice on trading, no matter how good or bad of a trader he is. Regarding talking about my strategies in more detail, I regret that on a lot of strategies I am limited in how much detail I could provide. Some of them are thinly traded and...

MONTHLY UPDATE CORECTED VERSION As poyayan pointed out the profit for the incubator fund was $2,824 not 3824 MONTHLY UPDATE JUNE 30 REVIEW • Personal account values: as of June 30 close was $728,489 • Incubator hedge fund: values as of June 30 close was $111,824. • End of...