Review Of Open Positions – Futures
A losing week overall, with a mixed performance in our Equities longs, further profit in our Oil short, and losses in Rates, with our 30yr long position retreating far enough on Friday to trigger an...
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A good week for our futures portfolio with strong gains in Equities, a rebound in the 10yr, and continued weakness in Crude Oil. The only disappointment was in our short Gold position which had a 3-day...
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Our futures portfolio gained further ground this week, aided mostly by a big reversal lower in Gold, as well as further gains in Equities. The 10yr and Oil positions gave back some of their gains, and...
View ArticleUpdated Futures Performance
Here’s a quick update on the YTD futures performance. This may eventually make its way onto a permanent ‘performance’ tab much like the stocks one, if I can ever work out how to do menus the way I want...
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A strong week for our futures portfolio, and in fact a strong month, with the uptrend in Equities, and downtrends in Gold and Oil continuing their course. Our most recent positions; short Yen and long...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
It was a mixed week for our futures portfolio with further gains in gold, equities, and currency positions offset by retracements in the 10yr and oil. The volatility was enough to trigger several...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
A relatively quiet week overall with weakness mostly confined to our long equity positions. There were no new signals and activity was limited to rolling contracts for many of our positions. The Euro...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
What a week, the best the futures portfolio has had all year. I’m reminded of some Pink Floyd lyrics:- “We’re so happy we can hardly count… Have you seen the chart? It’s a helluva start… …We call it...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
With just two trading days of 2013 remaining, December has easily been the best month this year for our futures portfolio. This week cemented that status, with follow through rallies in long Equities,...
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Our futures portfolio extended its gains into year-end, adding one new position into the mix with a long entry in the Euro, but suffered losses the other side of the New Year’s holiday as markets...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
It was a negative week in our futures portfolio with losses in our 30yr, 10yr, and Gold positions only partially offset by further gains in the S&P and NASDAQ. Currencies were a bright spot with...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
A negative week in our futures portfolio led by losses in long Euro and our newest position Short Oil, which we entered early in the week. Elsewhere, minor losses in S&P, 10yr, Pound, and Gold...
View ArticleFutures Update – Exiting Short 10yr, Short Oil
Obviously some big moves in markets today, enough to bring our stops into play in several positions, two of which we’ve exited at tonight’s open in the 10yr and Crude Oil. Elsewhere, the Yen closed...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
The big increase in volatility this week brought about plenty of changes in our futures portfolio. We began the week with many positions still in the midst of counter-trend moves and being prepared to...
View ArticleFutures Update – Exiting Long NASDAQ ($NQ_F)
Another volatile session for most markets and another signal generated, this time a trailing stop in our NASDAQ long which we’ve exited at tonight’s open. We had been long since July for a profit of...
View ArticleFutures Update – Entering Long NASDAQ, Long Pound, Exiting Long Dollar
Our futures portfolio has been very quiet recently as many markets were still in no-man’s land leaving everyone to contemplate whether the moves of the last week were countertrend in nature or the...
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It was looking like another quiet week without any signals in our futures portfolio until a flurry of activity Thursday night triggered two new long entries in the NASDAQ and the Pound, and an exit for...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
No changes to our futures portfolio this week, and little change in our p&l either with the 10yr unchanged, and modest gains in our 30yr and NASDAQ positions not enough to overcome the weakness in...
View ArticleReview Of Open Positions – Futures
Last week’s review indicated the S&P would likely trigger a long signal on a new high, and after marginally failing to trigger Monday, the necessary criteria were met the following night. The...
View ArticleFutures Update – Exiting Long NASDAQ
It was a fairly volatile session in equity markets today and although the indices managed to stage a late recovery to stave off a raft of trailing stops in our single stock names, it wasn’t enough to...
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