Trades into Monday, May 15th

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There are no new buy orders for today

There is ONE sell order for today.

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The TPS 1-2-3-4 strategy has been holding onto a 10% position in GLD for a couple of weeks, and with Friday's close, as signaled that this should be closed at the open.

The order is 

• STC 15 GLD market GTC at 9:32 a.m.

The position will be closed at a loss.

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I run the screens daily and there have been no order positions.  I expect with a pullback in the market we will see new opportunities emerge.

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As with all my ramblings, you are responsible for your own investment decisions and I am not.  Please do your own diligence, and please take ownership for your actions.

Regards,

pgd

Trades into Thursday, April 27th

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There are no new purchase orders for today.

There are no new sell orders for today.

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As with all my ramblings, you are responsible for your own investment decisions and I am not.  Please do your own diligence, and please take ownership for your actions.

Regards,

pgd

Trades into Wednesday, April 26th

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There is one new purchase order for today.

There are no new sell orders for today; the account is flat into the open.

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The account value is $75,069.05.

The new order is in the TPS strategy.  TPS allows 4 fully-loaded positions, so a fully-loaded position size is $18,767.  This is the first scale-in, which is a 10% position.  Hence, the first order size is less than or equal to $1,877.

GLD closed at 120.25, indicating that 15 shares should be purchased.  The order for this morning is:

• BTO 15 shares GLD market GTC at 9;32 a.m. ET

I wait 2 minutes before buying/selling to allow the overnight book to clear.

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As with all my ramblings, you are responsible for your own investment decisions and I am not.  Please do your own diligence, and please take ownership for your actions.

Regards,

pgd

Trades into Tuesday, April 25th AND Performance Update

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There are no new purchase orders for today.

There are no new sell orders for today; the account is flat.

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A Quick Performance Update

The nice thing about running this strategy with real money is that I can simply run an account report and we have the numbers.  There are two images here; click on each to enlarge:

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As with all my ramblings, you are responsible for your own investment decisions and I am not.  Please do your own diligence, and please take ownership for your actions.

Regards,

pgd

Trades into Wednesday, April 19th

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I'm traveling this week so this will be brief.

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There are 3 buy orders for the open.

There are no sell orders for the open.

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XLB, in the %B strategy, has signalled a second entry. The account value is $74,235.38.

%B allows 10 strategies at a 90%/10% scale-in ratio.  A fully-loaded position is $7,424 and 10% of this is $742.  The order is

• BTO 12 shares XLB market GTC at 9:32 a.m.

EWH and XLV have signalled entry in the RSI 25 strategy.  RSI 25 allows 8 positions at a 50%/50% scale in.  A fully-loaded position is $9,279 and half of this is $4,640.  The orders are:

• BTO 208 shares EWH market GTC at 9:32 a.m.
• BTO 62 shares XLV market GTC at 9:32 a.m.

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Remember, you are responsible for your own investment decisions and I am not.  Please do your own diligence, and please take ownership for your actions.

Regards,

pgd

Trades into Tuesday, April 18th

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I'm traveling this week so this will be brief.

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There is 1 buy order for the open.

There are no sell orders for the open.

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XLB, in the %B strategy, has signalled entry. The account value is $74,235.38.

%B allows 10 strategies at a 90%/10% scale-in ratio.  A fully-loaded position is $7,424 and 90% of this is $6,681.  The order is

• BTO 129 shares XLB market GTC at 9:32 a.m.

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Remember, you are responsible for your own investment decisions and I am not.  Please do your own diligence, and please take ownership for your actions.

Regards,

pgd

Trades into Monday, April 17th

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There are 2 purchase orders for the open.

There are no sell orders for the open.

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I moved some monies around.  The account value has increased to $74,235.38.

The two orders are with the TPS strategy.  Both are 10% entries.  The TPS strategy allows 4 open positions total.  Each position, if fully loaded, would be $18,558.85.  A 10% entry is $1,856.

• BTO 47 shares EEM market at 9;32 a.m.
• BTO 25 shares XLV market at 9;32 a.m.

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There are no option candidates for Monday.

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3-Month Rolling Performance

Historical, rolling, annualized 3-month performance from the 3-month backscan is as follows.  The numbers will be different than previous blog entries because this is a ROLLING snapshot -- the period shown below is 1/16/2017 to 4/15/2017.  

Summary	Value
Total Return	$1,107.18
Total Realized Return	$1,335.89
Gross Profit	$1,840.60
Gross Loss	($504.71)
Open Trade P/L	($228.71)
Number of Trades	71
Number of Winning Trades	49
Number of Losing Trades	22
% Profitable	69.01%
Average Trade	$18.82
Average Trade (%)	0.29%
Standard Deviation Trade	$53.96
Standard Deviation Trade (%)	0.86%
Largest Winning Trade	$294.25
Largest Losing Trade	($149.90)
Profit Factor	3.65
Average Win / Average Loss	1.64
Sharpe Ratio	0.1603
K-Ratio	0.3892
Return Retracement Ratio	18.3526
Compounded Annual Return	4.78%
Compounded Monthly Return	0.38%
Average Annual Return	$1,107.18
Average Annual Return (%)	1.11%
Average Monthly Return	$276.79
Average Monthly Return (%)	0.28%
Percent Days Profitable	38.71%
Percent Months Profitable	75.00%
Percent Years Profitable	100.00%
Commissions on Futures	$0.00
Commissions on Currencies	$0.00
Commissions on Equities	$285.94
Total Commissions	$285.94

The 3d High/Low, MDD, and R3 strategies have been omitted from these results, as it is underperforming in the latest scan.

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As with all my ramblings, you are responsible for your own investment decisions and I am not.  Please do your own diligence, and please take ownership for your actions.

Regards,

pgd