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What is your timeframe for a typical trade?
PALM shorted 4000 @ 8.96
Correction: Ticker in Post 25 should read DHI
COF shorted 4000 @ 8.94
Late report - this trade was filled at the open on Mon 23 March following the limit order posted on here Sat 21 March.
USO bought 1200 @ 46.93
COF shorted 1000 @ 42.00
FNM covered 2000 @ 0.90
SLV bought 1500 @ 17.20
Filled 29/07/2007 as per GTC order posted on evening of prev day. I'm not always about to keep the trades and portfolio bang up to date, but will generally not let it get more than a few days stale.
USO bought 300 @ 112.47
FNM shorted 500 @ 9.70
Trade opened: FNM sell short 500 limit 9.70 GTC
let's have some money off the dip buyers
Am mulling chasing gold higher here.
my thinking:
If FNM & FRE get bailed out, gold is going 1000+
If they fail, gold is going 2000+
I don't need to draw the channel lines on this chart:
The trend will work until it doesn't.
http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/intchart.asp?symb=USO&time=7&freq=1
USO sold 200 @ 118.50
Have put the prices as of close of market in the thread header.
Looks like you did pretty good on the oil fund, how did the 2 shorts turn out.
USO bought 200 @ 110.80
FNM shorted 1500 @ 15.05
AXL shorted 4000 @ 6.96
Trades to enter at open on July 10 2008:
4000 AXL short sell limit 6.70 Good till cancelled (GTC)
1500 FNM short sell limit 15.05 GTC
300 GLD buy limit 91.90 GTC
200 USO buy limit 110.80 GTC
This board tracks performance of my personal investment thinking.
A mix of indices, commodities & individual stocks - shorts and longs - fundamentals and channel trading.
Just for fun a theoretical portfolio is tracked starting at $100,000 cash after close of markets on July 9, 2008.
Transaction costs of $10 per trade are factored in.
CURRENT VALUE OF PORTFOLIO: $129,223 as of close Mar 20, 2009
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Ticker Quantity Price Value
AXL - 4000 1.76 - 7040.00
COF - 1000 11.34 -11340.00
SLV 1500 13.61 20415.00
USO 1500 30.76 56140.00
Cash 81048.00
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HISTORICAL VALUES OF PORTFOLIO:
$123,737 as of close Jan 30, 2009
$124,136 as of close Nov 07, 2008
$114,794 as of close Oct 11, 2008
$114,726 as of close Oct 01, 2008
$111,014 as of close July 18, 2008
$104,283 as of close July 17, 2008
$111,119 as of close July 16, 2008
$119,381 as of close July 15, 2008
$113,255 as of close July 14, 2008
$110,635 as of close July 11, 2008
$106,165 as of close July 10, 2008
$100,000 as of close July 09, 2008
The portfolio resembles my own real world holdings, so I am often publishing theoretical trades here that correlate to my own existing or conceived of trades.
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