Week of 2013 AU 23

IWM rose by 1.8% this week, while my account rose 1.7% to its highest value since MA 31 and nearly up to its value from MR 28.  The loss-floor has fallen to -7.2%.

US market news: On Thursday, the NASDAQ market shut down at 12:21pm due to a quote-storm, which eventually overtook all other markets except ARCA (which apparently was the source of the problem).  Markets reopened at 3:25 EST.  Multiple hours of widespread trading halts seemed to have remarkably little effect on anything — perhaps this market really is completely rigged?

End of week allocations:

% gain size │ Max loss Sym  Buy │  Fri  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri │ Beg   End   UWM JL15 │ -0.3 9 -0.3 9 -0.3 9 -0.3 9 -0.3 0 │ -0.3 -0.3 AGQ AU09 │ +2.7 13 +2.7 13 +2.5 12 +2.5 12 +2.6 12 +3.6 13 │ +1.5 +2.3 ATML AU13 │ +0.1 10 -0.1 10 -0.1 10 -0.1 10 -0.1 10 -0.1 0 │ -0.7 -0.7 YHOO AU21 │ -0.0 10 +0.3 11 +0.3 11 │ -0.2 -0.2 URTY AU21 │ -0.1 10 +0.3 11 +0.4 11 │ -0.5 -1.2 FNSR AU22 │ +0.0 12 +0.3 12 │ -1.0 -1.0 IWM │ +23.2 +22.0 +23.7 +23.0 +24.7 +25.0 │ me │ -4.2 -4.4 -4.6 -4.8 -3.9 -2.5 │ floor │ -6.1 -5.9 -5.3 -6.7 -7.7 -7.2 │

AGQ: Continuing to do well!  Max loss is now 2.3% above water, so a profitable end for this trade seems “guaranteed”.

Gold trading

Still have a “Buy” signal!  Still haven’t bought it.

Stock-trading robot

On Wednesday, all stop-updates failed due to some problem at Schwab, which prevented loading of the subpage that shows how many shares I currently hold.  As of Thursday it was working again so I couldn't debug what had happened.

Ticker Symbol		Buy date			Buy price			Sell date			Sell price			Acct Profit
		Model	Actual		M	A		Model	Actual		M	A		M	A
UWM		JL 05 09:30	JL 15 09:30		$63.31	$67.95		AU 19 16:00	AU 19 09:31		$65.98	$65.93		+0.41%	-0.31%
AGQ		AU 09 09:30			$18.07			(Not yet)
ATML		AU 13 09:30			$7.53			AU 20 09:30			$7.47			-0.11%
URTY		AU 20 12:00	AU 21 09:30		$61.76	$61.08		(Not yet)
YHOO		AU 21 09:30			$27.09			(Not yet)
FNSR		AU 22 09:30			$20.62			(Not yet)

UWM: Last of the late-to-the-party trades from JL 15.  Because I was so late, this ended up being a loser instead of a winner.  Oh well.  This trade stopped out; I’m still not sure what number to use for “model sell price” for these leveraged tickers; shown here is the stop-price that had been set (there was some “slippage”).

ATML: Perfectly normal trade.  Everything went as expected.  Unfortunately, it was a loser.

URTY: Robot trade did not go through on Tuesday (Schwab timed out), but I didn't notice until end-of-day, so bought the next morning.  Got a better price, anyway.