Andy's Spread Trading Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Jordan_Andy, Nov 19, 2004.

  1. Trade - 07/03

    I did follow my time stop on my W-C spread and did exit at 150 1/2 with the 3 remaining contracts.

    I will follow the spread, it still looks interesting to me.

    Hyp. Profit on the trade is $700 - $150 commission = $550.

    Hyp. account now at $56,761.
     
    #201     Jul 3, 2006
  2. Neodude

    Neodude

    Hey Andy,

    Nice to see that your journal is still alive. I haven't visited in a while, may I ask what broker your using now? I know a lot of people where using Refco before. Thanks a bunch and continued success in your trading.

    -Neo
     
    #202     Jul 3, 2006
  3. Hi Guys,

    I am not doing any trade because I am going back home to the DR next week.

    I hope I am coming back to normal soon and I will try to get some nice trades for the second half of 2006.

    Happy trading
    Andy
     
    #203     Jul 13, 2006
  4. NEW EMAIL ADDRESS

    For any comments, questions, suggestions you can reach me under

    andy@jordan-trading.com

    If you need some free PDF's about spread trading, just let me know!
     
    #204     Jul 21, 2006
  5. Trades

    I am very sorry guys, the journal is not up to date. I was fighting with a cold since I got back from Europe.

    I did get kicked with an LHQ-LHV trade.

    Hyp. loss was -$3,872 - commission of $240 = -$4,112.

    Hyp. account now at $52,649.

    I did enter KWU-MWU at 4 on 07/25 with 6 contracts, risk $430, target 25 or even higher.

    I also did a lot of research about my trading of the last 1/2 year. It seems I am taking profits to early and therefore I will try to let the profits run longer before I sell out any contracts.

    Thanks to my trading journal I could get a pretty good picture about what was going wrong.

    I also did travel a lot and this did not make it easier but shouldn't be any excuse.

    Let's see what we get in the next few month.

    Happy trading everyone,

    Andy Jordan
     
    #205     Aug 1, 2006
  6. Hi Andy!

    Question: Since you took a 7% loss on your last trade, what's the maximum percentage of your account are you risking on each individual trade? Thanks!

    B
     
    #206     Aug 2, 2006
  7. Hi,

    I am normally using only 5% but I could not get out fast enough.

    :-((

    Andy
     
    #207     Aug 2, 2006
  8. Trade 08/04

    I did exit my KW-MW spread at 3 1/2 with a small loss.

    Hyp. loss is -$450 - commission $180 = -$630.

    Hyp. accont now at $52,019.

    Bad times but don't worry, it only can go better ;-)

    Happy trading,
    Andy
     
    #208     Aug 8, 2006
  9. Hi Andy!

    Are you using Trade Navigator to chart spreads?

    I am looking into (MWU6 – MWZ6) spread that you mentioned in the chart scan, however, it appears that Trade Navigator has an issue w/ the volume for these contracts. I was checking the liquidity for both months, and discovered that my TN is giving me identical volume for both of the contracts. I contacted Genesis about this and they are currently looking into it; just wanted to check w/ you if you have the same problem. Thanks!

    B
     
    #209     Aug 14, 2006
  10. Hi Bastia,

    try to use "contract volume" instead of volume. I had the same problem when I did start using TN.

    Hope this helps.

    Regards,
    Andy
     
    #210     Aug 14, 2006