Hi RJ, Thanks for the kind words and I wish you all the same. I have started to uploaded the trades for the day (I also upload them into the traders P/L journal thread). I am unclear what screen your refering to but if you let me know I surely will consider posting it. I currently post my trades in real time in the ET chat and I am also about to post my trades on collective2 in real time as well under the name Robert Weinstein
sold and bought some NED. tried the ARCA exchange instead of smart on the exits. Was charged zero commission for the ones that worked (I was also hit for 24 shares and then needed to exit the other 76 to round out the lot) tried the IB ticket method of trade entry and bought 100 shares instead of selling. +842 for the trade
Short NTRI @ 25.79 covered @ 25.68 S:>6b+ covered early, IB didnt have more than 200 shares for me to short. Didnt want to stick around with one hand tied behind my back. +22 for the trade
S SOHU 52.82 53.19 covered at 52.61 52.40 S:6b> + 198 for the trade (this trade was actually before the NTRI trade)
IB is listing the profit based on the closing price of Friday and NOT the average cost so the reported profit is too high. ~+224 for the trade and not 842
As a result of being asked many times for my system and/or trades I am posting all my trades in real time on Collective2 so if anyone wants to duplicate my trades they can. flat for the day (except for the EFPs) +504 for the day/week + 9242 for the month (IB once again shows my profit to be higher than it actually is. NED performance is not as high and I believe the blotter profit is based on the closing price of NED from FRI, not the average price I paid. You can also see that it appears IB did not charge a commission for the NED trades - I did post on ARCA and I did add liquidity but i would have expected commissions similar to those on island)
Didn't get a chance to post my trades as they happened for a few reasons. I am posting them on another site, I am trying to do some scalping so (don't want to lose trades while I type) and I usually also give them on the ET chat in real time. The scalping worked out well. I tried to find some nas stocks where I could use the IB booktrader to quickly place orders. kept it simple and small to start (I have been paper trading my scalping for a while to get to the point where I felt comfortable with real money) Other than scalping I had only one 'real' trade. GVA +98 S:>6b +244 for the day +748 for the week +9486 for the month.
What a crazy day. Traded three stocks today. All of them to the short side. S 2 STI @ 69.99 L 2 STI @ 68.97 +204 for the trade (hit the top on that move well) S:>6b S 2 TASR @ 14.46 L 2 TASR @ 14.18 +55 for the trade S:>6b The real challenge today was with EXM. All three of the trades were entered within 6 minutes of each other and upon a little bit more review I may have passed on EXM or at least entered at a higher point. (starting point should have been no less than 47.70) S 2 47.24 47.68 47.81 48.11 48.23 48.44 48.46 48.72 48.73 S 1 @ 49.37 bought 2 back at 48.19 + 6.32 At this point I had some issues with IB book trader and hit the but at market a couple of times. L 2 @ 48.26 -7.68 L 2 @ 48.205 + 3.32 S 2 48.355 hit the market buy on IB by accident L 2 48.60 -73.14 so I then shorted again 2 units at 48.63 S 2 @ 48.86 S 2 @ 49.41 L 2 @ 48.91 L 2 @ 48.78 missed buying back four more(two each price) at 48.44 and 48.42 as I removed my bid while my bid was Best bid in hopes that the stock would fall further. there was not more bids hit and the price moved up from there. in the last ten minutes it moved very quickly higher to the tune of about one dollar per share. I now have S 15 EXM open @ ave of 48.47 so I will start out tomorrow about $1500 under. again looking at the chart it is no real supprise on a big up day for the overall market for this to have a short covering rally. IB is over reporting my profits because of the closing of the EFPs (I don't consider them to be trading profits) Open -1546 +147 for the day + 895 for the week +9633 for the month
update/placeholder on some stats. consecutive non losing days 49 Last losing day 10-10-07 * 10-19-07 -1 and 10-12-07 - 6 due to commissions from entering in trades that were carried overnight (both trades where profitable) Also I stopped posting on C2 due to difficulty in posting there and here. two stocks that are C8+ FCL ED Perhaps the most signals I have ever seen on one day TASR ACLI HTZ DRH IOC KMX MV SCHW CBG JEF SEE URBN JBHT PLCE(E) CVC STX GT WDC ZUMZ ARO DSX MWV CTSH RJF HCP CYH WLT BBT DRC COH CE PNRA MR BKS SNDA FII CNW VTR CMA EXM TIF KSS ROH OMG NUE ACH MER AGU SOHU ITW TGT SYNA LNC OEH TEX LEH AG RL MOS STI TD CRS PNC WFR LM STT ANF MTL