December 20th, 2020 We are closing all trades for this blog as we come to the end of our trading year and what has been a diabolical year for many. Our portfolio is sitting at: $142,130.90 Let’s close our trades first… S&P 500: SSO = UP, SDS = DOWN SSO is the ETF that mimics …
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December 16th, 2020
Today we have to take the good with the bad. We were triggered into a trade, but as I looked at it I realised I had made a mistake. It happens. There have been at least two so far this year. Let’s take a look at the missed opportunity. On the right hand side you …
Double Up ETFs!
December 15th, 2020 Given that there will be a shift in direction for this blog come the end of the year, I thought I would make sure you had some idea about the ETFs we have been using in this theoretical exercise. This is not a geek out, I am just giving you some basics. …
Weekly Round – Up to December 11th, 2020
There is no book link, but there is a link to a sign up page for a 1 hour webinar/class on basic trading. If you are serious about this endeavour, you need to do this thing… Click: https://tradingmadeeasy.gr8.com/ To the Round – Up, easily second only to Christmas for excitement. Our $100,000 starting portfolio now …
Weekly Round – Up to December 4th, 2020
I need to amend the Legend above. There will not be a link to a book and video package, instead it is a link to a sign up for a webinar that goes through the trading method used here in detail. https://tradingmadeeasy.gr8.com/ Let’s get to the reason we are here at the moment: The Round …
Trade Update
December 2nd, 2020 We had established in a previous post that the symbol UDN – our stock market proxy for the Dollar Index – needed just one more hurdle to jump and we would be into a trade. Let’s start with a chart. You can see on the right hand side of the chart that …
Weekly Round-Up to November 27th, 2020
The Weekly Round-Up…is there anything more exciting?! I don’t think so, let’s get started. There is a legend at the top that explains the bulk of what goes on here. This week we have a couple of trades to confirm and provide details of at least one of them. Gold: UGL = UP, GLL = …
Update to November 26th, 2020
This post is to update a trade and while we are at it taking a look at one that is pending. Let’s take a look at the trade that triggered. First the chart and then the details. SSO is our ETF stock market proxy for the UP side of the S&P 500 First of all, …
Market Close November 23rd, 2020
Here we are at last: all that silliness behind us, perhaps we can get back to work. First up is a trade update. As you may remember we had an open trade in TBT during that pesky election thingy. Well, no more, sadly we were stopped out. Here’s how it ended. The high in TBT …
Random Brilliant Comments about the Experts and the Markets…
November 17th, 2020 When last we spoke I mentioned that I would have some wise words with respect to the prognostications of experts and headlines in general as they relate to trading. There have been views – maybe countless – as to which winner of the interminable U.S. election will have what effect on the …
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