Friday, March 28, 2014

Summary Week Ended Friday 28th March 2014

 

16 Stock Trades:


15 AAL + 347.86 BPS

1 BLT + 3.30 BPS

Stocks net  + 351.16 BPS


Long and short trades, intraday and overnight.

I traded 5 days this week.

Return on account for the week 3.30 % net.

P:L ratio was 1.47:1.

No Index trades, I am concentrating on stocks.





Thoughts

Quite a difficult week for me. I was away in London at the weekend, and I had a swing long position in AAL from the previous week (with stops in the market), which I closed for a smallish profit on Monday when I returned to my desk.

Sitting in the airport checking prices on my phone was interesting. But sometimes it is better to just let the trade look after itself, it's a very difficult area, and I'm still learning this game.

My entries could have been a lot better but a profit is a profit, however small. Still above my 2% weekly return benchmark, so not too bad.

A volatile week on the miners, but the sector recovered from the lows of the previous week when copper fell sharply. Gold dropped below $1300 on Thursday.

Chart of the FTSE mining sector:




Banks also weakened, and the FTSE was volatile.

It's been a decent month, but we still have Monday before it's over.

Posting this on Friday morning as I've done for the week .

Looking forward to more opportunities next month.

Stay disciplined.

Stay focussed.

Stay humble.

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