Trade Review - Bear market version, a quick lesson on how not to trade. Some degenerate trading in $JRV took me to the cleaners, loss porn attached for those needing a cheer up. drive.google.com/file/d/1KwD…
April Trade Review $61.7k net - Hard posting this one as the give back the first week of May has been of epic proportions. Finding conditions incredibly tough with the lack of liquidity, hopefully better conditions ahead.
March Trade Review $43.1k net - Plenty of mistakes made this month, particularly in stock selection & pos sizing, missed some really sizeable opps. On a positive note March concludes two years of FT trading and couldn’t be happier, onto the next.
February Trade Review $68.66k net - Tough conditions continue, struggling to find consistency in current environment outside of a few names, less is more seems to be the play.
January Trade Review $82.6k net - A month of two halves with a decent face slapping at the end, have done a deeper dive in my monthly review, have included below.
December Trade Review - 12.8k had to scratch the itch while on holidays, probably best that I not have, @iress I didn't think you could top a worse software that VP but you managed with your iPhone app.
November Trade Review $228.9k net - Went for the jugular in KRM and with some fortunate early positioning came out with a decent win. Aside from that trade it was pretty tough going, coming into December in DD and struggling to find much in terms of opps.
Finding conditions have really deteriorated in November and struggling to find liquidity in a bunch of names, getting trapped and seeing decent slippage exiting. Definitely looks like the 'easy money' is becoming less easy. Time for a holiday!
October Trade Review $100k net - Far better month in terms of motivation and discipline with plenty of opps about. Hoping to finish the year strong in November with with December to be spent in Hawaii with hopefully minimal trading.
September Trade Review $155.1k net - Visited the cash incinerator trying to long backside (again) IO plays and got ran over. Some decent moves in a few stable horse names which pushed things back in the right direction.
I find with time stylistically I'm slowly drifting away from intra/scalping and more towards high conviction swing/position trading which is accounting for a greater portion of returns & less # of trades per month. This is likely market condition dependent and can change monthly
August Trade Review $74.1k net - A tricky month to be in small cap resources so focused shifted away from O/N swing to a much scalpier intra approach. Got a good wake up call getting a bit to cosy with TLG on size and paid the price.
July Trade Review $118.5k net - Finally cracked the six figure ceiling for the month. Apart from a painful misadventure in Z1P where I was quickly slapped back into my lane it was a relatively consistent month overall.
Made good progression in increasing sizing particularly in intra opps, this may be put down to more setups suiting my style in July so hoping this theme continues into August.
June Trade Review $31.7k net - One of the more challenging months I've had since going FT. The back half of the month was particularly difficult, being predominantly resource focused it wasn't all that enjoyable with liquidity all but disappearing in the small caps.