Subscribe to Quantisan
Tag Archives: monthly review
May 2010 Trading Review
May 6th was a historical day in the market. The Dow tanked 9% in minutes but climbed back up near the end of the day. We have since closed below that level later in the month. The bears seem to have finally awoken. I closed two trades in May totalling a decent gain of 10% [...]
April 2010 Trading Review
I made my first RRSP trade to short Cenovus Energy (CVE.TO) using puts in April. I also made my first careless mistake in my RRSP by buying more contracts instead of closing the CVE.TO position as I intended. As of this writing, I am still holding my puts options as the slow decline seem to [...]
March 2010 Trading Review
It is that time of the month again when I do my trading performance review. However, I did not make any trade this month. Not because I was procrastinating, but I spent all of my time this month to work on my quantitative projects. This review will be a recap of my backend trading development. [...]
February 2010 Trading Performance Review
I barely traded this month. The total number of trades in February for my forex demo account is ten. That’s far from my regular 150 – 250 trades a month. Ever since my trading system was broken because of technical difficulties, I’ve changed my priorities in trading. I spent most of my time in February [...]
January 2010 Trading Performance Review
2010 didn’t begin well for me. I experienced my biggest drawdown so far at -3.95% (see Figure 1 for my account balance graph) in my demo account. Given that I only risk 0.2% per trade, this is a relatively substantial setback. Ironically, I was in the process of filling paper work to open a live [...]
My name is Paul and I am a full-time engineer, part-time trader. Back in 2000, I deposited my $5000 interest-free student loan with an online broker. Since then, my interest in trading has become an obsession.
June and Second Quarter 2010 Trading Review