The streak continues. Another really good day today. As mentioned in the previous post, I'm getting close to dumping all my shorts. My auto-trades kick major butt recently, wouldn't it be great if it just continues like that Here are today's results: Auto Trades: 2337 Everything else: 3024
And the streak is over Still a very good week, finished it up slightly over 18k. After last nights future action I didn't think the market would have such a strong comeback on a Friday. I barely watched it today, it was pretty obvious early on it's not going to cooperate. Two nice up weeks in a row, let's see if I can add a third one. Enjoy your weekend folks. Here are today's results: Auto Trades: -2298 Everything else: -1456
Had another down day today . Losses came from auto trades, nothing major though. Here are today's results: Auto Trades: -988 (across the board, no outliars) Everything else: 2 (did bad on the short market but did good on the option trades)
My trading comes in streaks, that's for sure. Another quite significant down day today, my auto trades completely left out. If one looks at my daily P&L/net liq value it wouldn't be hard to build an oscillator around it and figure out when to buy my trading style and when to short sell it. Unfortunately that's not that easy to implement and many of my positions need time to mature, but if I could have a theoretical P&L and when it's < 10 on stochastics put on a ton of positions and exit when it's > 80 I'd have less risk on most of the time and would do better P&L wise. Here are today's results: Auto Trades: -3410 Everything else: -669
Terrible trading day, the down streak continues. A week ago I couldn't stop thinking about allocating more money to the auto-trades since they did so well, now I can't stop thinking about pulling money out of there. In reality I've kept my position allocation constant and will do so until year end. Crazy and back to the roller coaster we discussed a couple posts earlier. Since things are working so well I've added a couple new positions in UAL and YHOO. Here are today's results: Auto Trades: -4465 Everything else: -2539 (mostly due to my short market positions)
5th down day in a row. Unreal. Just like the rally in the S&P futures the last couple minutes. There's going to be a serious markup on tomorrow's expiration. Here are today's results: Auto Trades: 2037 Everything else: -3122
That's the sound that the market made as it ran over me this week. I'm still not sure what hit me but my P&L for this week was -17k3. There wasn't anything that worked in my trading, I got hurt the most with the nasdaq going crazy and bonds going nuts. Today was a very short glimmer of hope when the S&P sold off a little but then as it came back all my auto trades were out of what and caused a big loss. I'm closing this week with six down days in a row and a pretty low confidence level. Here are today's results: Auto Trades: -2196 Everything else: -1942
I can see your issue, your putting faith in stochastics and indicators in general, delete them ALL and start again, sorry! It'll work in a choppy market, where the market isn't really making new highs and lows but as soon as a momentum move happens, your trading against the trend.
It might be interesting to compare your weekly P&L to the change in the SPX500. This week I have the SPX up 23.47 points or 1.22%. I try to beat the index each week. This week I fell short.