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Stopped out!

I got stopped out of my long Nifty trade this morning – the Nifty was down only 4% then. That’s a loss of around 25% net, reasonably huge for me, ...

Systems or discretion?

Weird thing. Our systems – which end up being short or long, depending on the trend,are doing wonderfully in these markets. In the last couple weeks, we ...

The Long Position Update

A commenter recently said I haven’t been talking much about my long positions, presumably because they’ve gone rotten? I certainly am guilty of ...

System Trading Performance Update

A system trading update: now we have two systems in operation. The first one is running reasonably, up 19.11% since Jun 08, unlevered. This translates to ...

Outperformance By Hanging Around

Yesterday we decided not to trade the system. We’d found that when the market had gapped and was in some direction by over 4% – then we found that ...

Bid/Ask has changed…

Dow down 500 points, nearly 5%. Korea down 6%, Taiwan down 4%, Shanghai 5%, Hang Seng 5%. The capital market world is coming to an end. Or so it seems. Too ...

SOS Trade: Short JPAssociates, Nifty, plus Update

In my Short Only strategy I would choose to now short the Nifty. Yes, I should have kept it on from the beginning, but these are things only viable in ...

System Trading – Time for a Nifty straddle?

A small system update: We’ve been testing and working with about 3 systems with real money and a couple others under a test phase. We’ve thrown out ...

Inflation is the highest since WPI was indexed to 100

So when someone talks about “Inflation at 13 year highs” – here’s what they really mean. This graph (click for larger view) is from ...

Dark Pools and Algorithmic Trading

From Economic Times: Dark pools threaten the existence of LSE, NYSE and Euronext: Dark pools, to put it simply, are essentially trading platforms and exchanges ...