Trades for 9/13/06

Another one hits the stop. Again, I have a lot less positions open than I would like but my day job is keeping me busy which leaves me less time to follow my setups. But overall, I am happy to finaly have a system that does not drain my account if it does not get…

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Trades for 9/11/06

Closed one more trade today, one who hit a stop order. I have very few positions left open. I stayed quiet this minutes as I was not sure how the market would react with all the minutes of silence for September 11th here and there. I plan on looking for a few more good swing…

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NMTI surprise

I was watching NMTI from 8/21/08 and thought it looked like a classic swing between channels. It was coming down towards the EMA line from the upper channel, the Stochastics was turning up and crossing, giving a buy signal. I was ready to get in when NMTI crossed 11.50, which it did. It did work out very well…

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Trades for 09/07/2006

Trades for today, September 7th 2006: Type Sym Date-in Price-in Date-out Price-out R-Mult GTE 09/05/2006 0.52 09/07/2006 0.58 1.45R NMTI 08/28/2006 11.36 09/07/2006 14.15 7.69R GNSS 08/28/2006 13.39 09/07/2006 12.34 0.60R

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Trades for 09/06/2006

I have struggled for quite some time now and tested different of what to post in my blog with regards to my watchlists and my trades. In a ideal world, I would like to post my trade ideas and watchlists early in the morning for everyone to see. The reality of my life is that…

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Week Review

The last couple of weeks have worked out pretty well. Again, nothing to write home about but enought to keep my head above water. Of course, the market was pretty quiet so I was somewhat sheltered from heavy movement. I cannot wait to test my trades after Labor Day to see how things workout. Today…

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August Trades Review

Since august is coming to an end, I decided to take some time this weekend to go over some of my trades this month. I will focus of three of them, two winning and one losing. The first one is probably my favorite, a winning trade of SCVL opened on 08/08 at 20.85 and closed…

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Closed a few more paper trades

I just closed 4 more paper trades and I re-evaluated my current results. My PnL has just turned green which made me happy. My winning probabiliy is at 44% by my W/L ratio is at 1.23. Using the Kelly Criterion I get K% = 1.21 meaning I should not currently commit more than 1% of my capital…

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New Triple-Screen setup

Testing new triple-screen setup using pcf’s in TeleChart. The first filter, look for a positive long term trend using weekly data. The filter looks for a positive slope on the weekly MACD Histogram using:   (XAVGC26 – XAVGC12) – (XAVGC26.4 – XAVGC12.4) > 0   The first term represents today MACD bar and the second, the MACD…

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