hajimow
Registered: Mar 2004
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05-06-12 04:11 PM
Quote from danshirley:
I think I answered this question earlier but I will answer again:
In my mind there are several steps to creating my portfolio. This is just one step.... trade discovery. My portfolio may or may not be ready to take in the trade.
I usually carry between 10 and 20 positions in my portfolio at a time... I actually have two different portfolios with 10 to 20 positions each.
It is just a matter of creating you own mutual fund and is not that hard. If there was a mutual fund that did what I do I would just buy the fund. It would be much harder if I didn't restrict myself to the most stable stocks and use positions that are very high probability positions. These are stocks I don't have to worry about, and if they become worrysome I tend to quickly liquidate the trade.
In creating the portfolio from the trades I consider things like correlation between positions and use positions in bonds and inverse ETF's to strike a risk balance.
I review the portfolio every day and it takes less than an hour using two screens and walking through graphs and headlines on YAHOO.
I try to let the trades expire for reasons you noted.
Please also note that I do not intend to record here whether or not the trade is taken, nor when the trade is ended. Also I am not interested in having prolonged conversations about these trades or my methods... and I make heavy use of the ignore function to keep the flow clean for my review.
If my trades interest you fine... if not please pass them by.
I read the few pages of this thread and then the last few pages. I did not go through all the pages so I did not know that you had already answered my questions. It is like the approach that I take and I have been very profitable. Your method is more conservative than mine and that makes it more interesting. I also wish we had some ETFs that were following strategies like yours. But unfortuanately we have lots of mutual funds just holding AAPL, MSFT, CSCO, WMT,.... This way the manager relaxes and collects his 1% managemnet fee on 10B dollars and do nothing. By the way, good luck in your tradings.
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