How did October Treat You?

How did October treat you?

  • more than +20%

    Votes: 19 33.3%

  • more than +5%

    Votes: 6 10.5%

  • relatively even

    Votes: 12 21.1%

  • more than -5%

    Votes: 5 8.8%

  • more than -20%

    Votes: 15 26.3%
  • Total voters
    57
this month has been hard for me. i have had some nice winning days (well above avg), but have had some big down days as well, which is not something I am used to. I think there is a lot of money out there to be made, but it becomes really hard if one loses discipline.
 
The month aint over yet.

The last day of the month might be a big trend day.. 10% up or down. Or even better, market gaps up or down 10% and closes down or up 10% at the other extreme... So perhaps we get a nice 20% high to low trend day... Chances are slim, but the last and first days of the month often have big moves...
 
I hear ya. It's been a tough few months. Barring a complete atomic bomb tomorrow I pretty much broke even for October, but I am still recovering from a 25% loss in September thanks to financials and commodities.
 
Quote from stock_trad3r:

We may get a 20% rally on Friday and recover all the losses

This month has been pretty bad (the first week mainly)
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so, why did you put down >+20%?


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very good month for me. mean-reversion worked wonders, but i crapped my pants twice per week. i am willing to crap my pants everyday to keep this market going, but i think the party will soon be over.

i am really curious how well the trend following (is it the same thing as momentum strategy?) worked this month.

does anybody have ideas whether both approaches (momentum and mean-reversion) usually co-exist peacefully on a given day, week, month? or does one typically dominate the other?
 
Quote from stock_trad3r:

We may get a 20% rally on Friday and recover all the losses

This month has been pretty bad (the first week mainly)
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Man, you are a nutcase. What the hell are you smoking. Its obvious to me you are desperate. A 20% market move in one day is absurd. What a clown you are.

QID swinging got me over 45% this month in portfolio. The rest in ES short (covered last Friday) and stocks (covered last Friday as well). October has been a very good month for me.

I'm slightly up on a bad entry on 940 ES long last week but up nicely on 830 ES long add. All my stocks I swung long into on Monday/Tuesday rocketed up as well.
 
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