Browsing Archive: June, 2013

2010 to 2013

Posted by Kris Pivo on Saturday, June 29, 2013, In : Monthly Performance

Purely out of interest, see our equity curve (green histogram) from Nov 2010 to June 2013; that is all I can fit on my screen. The April 2013 loss really messed-up our straight line equity growth, but as my friend said, it shows that I am a human after all and it demonstrates our ability to recover from a problematic situation. Besides, we all know the risks associated with financial markets.

YTD June 2013

Posted by Kris Pivo on Saturday, June 29, 2013, In : Monthly Performance

Year to date we have made $1,183.90 profit, or 4.4% equity growth. This is rather underwhelming performance, but we have a good recovery plan. We were in a difficult situation this year, as we incurred $3,812 loss in April, when we made elementary error and got stuck on the wrong side of the market. We are still recovering from this embarrassing position, but we buttoned-down the hatches, we improved our risk mitigating measures and we are recovering fast; the equity curve (green histogram b...

June 2013

Posted by Kris Pivo on Saturday, June 29, 2013, In : Monthly Performance

We had a relatively good trading month with $1,820.55 net profit, or 6.9% equity growth. It is interesting, however, that we that we made this profit with only three positions. This confirms the effectiveness of our risk mitigating strategy, where we take fewer, but higher probability trades.

Strong Breakout

Posted by Kris Pivo on Saturday, June 8, 2013,

We had a strong breakout last week and we captured profit in two stages. We closed larger part of our position at the Cam H4 level and we let a smaller part of our position to run well beyond Cam H5 level. We closed on Friday with an overall profit of $792.10. Overall, good trading week, with 2.9% equity growth!