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davebowman
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Sold SPX500 at 1328.5, stop at 1332

Not happy with the entry but it will have to do. Will probably reshort it if (when) I get stopped out.

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  #72 (permalink)
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Sold one more at 98.80. Stop at 99.00.

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Sold one more at 1325.5, another bad entry. Stop at 1329.5

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Short 2 more at 98.60. Stop at 98.80.

2 more at 1077, stop at 1080 (OMXS30)

Edit,
I would really like to see a major move down now, loaded up on shorts pretty much all across the board, oil, SPX500, OMXS30, EURUSD.

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Out of OMXS30, -3 points...

Just hoping at least one of my other positions survive long enough to see NY opening.

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Sold 2 more at 1322., stop at 1325.5

OMXS30 went by my stop with 0.75p(1080), now trading at 1075.5...

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Final 4 contracts sold at 98.40. Stop at 98.60.

edit,
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Last 4 contracts at 1319.5, stop at 1322.5

Stop for the CL position is now at 98.30, finally in the money!

Edit,
SPX500 stop at 1319.5
CL stop at 98.15

Edit 2,
CL stop at 98.05
SPX500 stop at 1318.

Edit 3,
CL stop at 97.95
SPX500 stop at 1317.

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Stopped out of oil, +500 ticks all in all.

Stopped out of SPX500, +41 points

The stop in SPX500 might have been too tight, still think there's a lot left on the downside. Well, I'm definitely done for the day here. Unfortunately the oil never really went wild but I still got a good chunk out of it I think.

Edit
Here's a chart of OMXS30. Stopped out right before the move. Painful.

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davebowman
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Considering the profits made yesterday (had some great shorts in EUR/USD as well) I'm going to take the rest of the week off.

Results for the second week:
CL: +543 ticks/5430$(6 losses, 2 winners)
SPX500: +35 points/2310
$(2 losses, 1 BE, 1 winner)
OMXS30: -6 points/396
$(2 losses)
Total: +7344$


Even though I think I'm pretty much done with the optimization of this strategy I'd be happy to hear any suggestions or thoughts. Don't want to be stuck in the same way of thinking when there might be some apparent improvements to be made.I just want to mention that the results for the past two weeks are in no way typical of the kind of profits I'm usually seeing. I've gone months without a decent winner and I fully expect that to happen again.

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