Taking 410K to 4million by Year End 2010

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Weekly Update for week 43/50 ended 11/06/2010

Positive week, up 10K (3.4%).

Lots of offsetting action for the most part this week on my discretionary trades, until Thur when I lost 12K shorting (SPY PUTs) the market. IF there ever was a day not to fight the Fed, it should have been Thur. That was unfortunate. Good thing I resisted the urge to average down (and my position monitor was on the alert). Made up much of that loss with short trades on Fri on some over-extended rallies. My automated trades came to the rescue big time, netting 12K for the week.


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Opening Balance:                	293,109
Net gain for the week 		         10,107
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Net Balance:                   		303,216

Number of Trades	            	23
Number of Profitable Trades    	    	16


Since Inception of Thread   01/10/2010 - 11/06/2010

Opening Balance:                   	410,000
Net loss(Less Margin Interest)		106,784 (Down 26%)
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Net Balance				303,216

Number of Trades	           	1200
Number of Profitable Trades        	 649


BREAK-DOWN BY AUTOMATED/DISCRETIONARY

		Number       P/L      Best Gainer  	Worst Loser

AUTO             5      12,731.20      7,076.00                0.00      
DISCR           18      -2,303.00      5,267.70   	 -11,690.40

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Quote from jedwards:

Congrats!! Awesome recovery you've made in the last 3 weeks! Keep it going!

Hardly what I call a recovery... When he/she? breaks even, that will be the beginning uv recovery sonny...
 
Quote from gettinglucky:

Hardly what I call a recovery... When he/she? breaks even, that will be the beginning uv recovery sonny...

That's a dumb comment. A few weeks ago he had a self-admitted meltdown after many weeks of losses, and in the last 3 weeks he's made some great gains. I would call that a recovery. He doesn't have to wait till break even to celebrate his victories. He has already acknowledged the first 8 weeks were rough, and he's moved on like any good trader would.
 
Quote from jedwards:

That's a dumb comment. A few weeks ago he had a self-admitted meltdown after many weeks of losses, and in the last 3 weeks he's made some great gains. I would call that a recovery. He doesn't have to wait till break even to celebrate his victories. He has already acknowledged the first 8 weeks were rough, and he's moved on like any good trader would.

+1!. Neke pay no attention to these haters
 
Quote from neke:

Thanks for your comment (Was curious when I saw you've posted just twice since registering in May 2009, checked your other post, and voila it was in last year's thread). This journal basically gives the result of my trading, with rough sketches of the trades I do. The intention is not to bring a crowd reading my mind and doing exactly what I would do. Beside this journal, I keep meticulous record of my trades, and classified by strategies (at last count there are more than 30 such classifications traded this year). Yes I do drill down and know the ones that are making it and he ones that are losing, and above all the losses I have incurred as a result of not sticking to plan - those I can't really blame on strategy. I know (have always known) the big obstacle to greater gains is myself (which is why at various times I have considered doing only autoamted, which up till now is still not there - too many variables within my discretion I could never put into a program).

For the prior year, I laid out my expectation that maximum drawdown should not exceed 40%. I think that is still a realistic drawdown given my risk tolerance, but the truth is that much of my drawdown is not due to strategy faithfully implemented, but rather personal issues (averaging down, revenge trading etc). My intention still remains to bring the personal issues under check, and execute faithfully the strategies, and the results will follow.
this post and the one you quoted outway all the lost ranters making this a good journal, nice work neke, hope to see you stay on course
 
Weekly Update for week 44/50 ended 11/13/2010

Positive week, up 12K (4%). Delighted to have the first 5-week winning streak in a year. New highs for the year excluding the first week. Now can say, "had it not been for the loss of the BIDU trade on week 1 (-102K), I should be positive for the year".

Was quite a roller-coaster, with some big losses, which were more than taken care of by the big win rate in my discretionary trades. Started the week with a gain of about 9K on Monday. Suffered terribly on Tue with the sell-off. First bought PCLN calls at the wrong moment (waited for it to get to my limit in early trade, when it did not, chased it and bought near the high. Paid for it selling when the stock retraced for a loss of 11K. Then entered SPY calls on the dip, again lost 8K there with the market sell-off. Wed provided reprieve buying the market (SPY call) and a few stocks on the morning dip. Closed the day with gains of 20K. Thur and Fri were slower with the gains/losses.


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Opening Balance:                	303,216
Net gain for the week 		         12,119
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Net Balance:                   		315,335

Number of Trades	            	24
Number of Profitable Trades    	    	17


Since Inception of Thread   01/10/2010 - 11/13/2010

Opening Balance:                   	410,000
Net loss(Less Margin Interest)		 94,665 (Down 23%)
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Net Balance				315,335

Number of Trades	           	1224
Number of Profitable Trades        	 666


BREAK-DOWN BY AUTOMATED/DISCRETIONARY

		Number       P/L      Best Gainer  	Worst Loser

AUTO 		5 	-4,130.70 	2,951.40 	  -7,513.60 
DISCR 		19 	15,920.50 	8,129.00	 -11,634.20

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