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Long/Short Stock Swing Trading Journal
- Thread starter mc107
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Quote from Bitstream:
forgive me if i jump in but I read your thread and cannot see anywhere what was your starting capital
?
thanks
Thanks for the question. I did not say clearly how much capital used in this system. The starting capital is based on max number of positions and size for each position. Currently we use $1.2m. The size for each position is $12,000-. Because the number of shares is round to 100 in most cases, the average size is around $10,800. The max positions we can have is 110 (with the 11 days holding period, max 10 new positions per day).
We are going to add longs today to test water. The stocks among the last 5 day's list and show worst return will be our first choice. This approach is a little twist of our original system, which has no longs at all in Feb. So play carefully, and enter long positions only when nasdaq is close above yesterday's high.
Long positions entered today, 2/14/2006:
Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price
2/14/06 AVII 1 1600 7.15
2/14/06 HMY 1 800 14.98
2/14/06 OS 1 300 35.76
2/14/06 SLW 1 1700 7
2/14/06 PCU 1 100 80.51
2/14/06 TIE 1 100 69.3
2/14/06 WTZ 1 800 14.72
2/14/06 AUY 1 1500 7.79
2/14/06 PDC 1 600 17.46
2/14/06 WPSC 1 800 14.99
The following positions were entered because they have worst peformance during 2/1/2006 ~ 2/13/2006. This list should be treated as experiment.
CESV 1 1700 6.84
SWN 1 300 32.85
GOOG 1 0 343.32
GSX 1 2000 5.93
NVTL 1 1200 9.9
WSSI 1 800 13.92
ENER 1 200 42.29
PTEN 1 300 30.45
THE 1 300 35.9
KCS 1 500 23.01
NEOL 1 1100 10.15
JBLU 1 1000 11.14
RRC 1 400 24.27
TOL 1 400 29.88
SNWL 1 1700 6.86
KWK 1 200 40.14
ESV 1 200 44.4
AMLN 1 300 37.21
TOL 1 400 29.88
SPF 1 300 34.7
Account is 27% in longs, no shorts, and 73% in cash. Stop: $10,000
Date Entry Symbol Long/Short Shares Entry Price
2/14/06 AVII 1 1600 7.15
2/14/06 HMY 1 800 14.98
2/14/06 OS 1 300 35.76
2/14/06 SLW 1 1700 7
2/14/06 PCU 1 100 80.51
2/14/06 TIE 1 100 69.3
2/14/06 WTZ 1 800 14.72
2/14/06 AUY 1 1500 7.79
2/14/06 PDC 1 600 17.46
2/14/06 WPSC 1 800 14.99
The following positions were entered because they have worst peformance during 2/1/2006 ~ 2/13/2006. This list should be treated as experiment.
CESV 1 1700 6.84
SWN 1 300 32.85
GOOG 1 0 343.32
GSX 1 2000 5.93
NVTL 1 1200 9.9
WSSI 1 800 13.92
ENER 1 200 42.29
PTEN 1 300 30.45
THE 1 300 35.9
KCS 1 500 23.01
NEOL 1 1100 10.15
JBLU 1 1000 11.14
RRC 1 400 24.27
TOL 1 400 29.88
SNWL 1 1700 6.86
KWK 1 200 40.14
ESV 1 200 44.4
AMLN 1 300 37.21
TOL 1 400 29.88
SPF 1 300 34.7
Account is 27% in longs, no shorts, and 73% in cash. Stop: $10,000