It’s week 6! Just when I felt happy because my misery in trading is coming to an end, I got a very pleasant surprise. Yep, what else is better than seeing my portfolio gaining a 14.96% return! Highest return I’ve ever got so far! Figure 1 shows my current portfolio as of Oct 25th and figure 2 shows my final portfolio over the course of 6 weeks trading. Figure 1. Potfolio Summary Figure 2. Final Portfolio So, what exactly happened? […]
Finally, after 5 weeks long my portfolio shows an all green from all my open positions *cheers*! Doesn’t it look nice?? 🙂 Here’s what happened this week: 1. 7-month high living cattle Speculators went long on living cattle futures expecting that there will be a tighter supply of cattle in the upcoming months. Seems like I share similar thoughts with them. Based on the lesson that we got, should we start to consider going short on living cattle? It is […]
Happy thanksgiving! First of all, enjoy the long weekend everyone, even though it’s not a happily spent long holiday for everyone (students, for example, we got midterms coming!) but hey enjoy the turkey! It only happens once a year ;p Okay, now back to business, Market this week is pretty calm, no drastic changes whatsoever until today! Corn price went down, BIG TIME! (good for me because it brings me back to the green 🙂 ) Figure 1 shows my […]
Week 3! Half way to go! and yet not making any money 🙁 Things are looking better for me this week, even though I still lose my profit on wheat. Figure 1 shows my position as of today. Figure 1. Open Position Status And this is my portfolio overview (figure 2) so far also my portfolio summary (figure 3) Figure 2. Portfolio Overview Figure 3. Portfolio Summary Here goes my weekly recap! The market has been pretty quiet this week […]
