Week of 2013 OC 04

IWM rose by 0.6% this week; my account fell 0.1%.  The loss-floor has fallen to -5.9%.

US news: The federal government remains shut down.  Wall Street doesn’t care, as long as the Fed continues to hand out free money to banksters.

End of week allocations:

% gain size │ Max loss Sym  Buy │  Fri  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri │ Beg   End   URTY ¹ SE04 │ +1.5 12 +1.5 12 +2.0 12 +1.8 12 +1.5 12 +1.7 12 │ +0.3 +0.4 UWM SE13 │ +0.4 11 +0.4 11 +0.6 11 +0.6 11 +0.3 11 +0.5 11 │ -0.2 -0.2 FNSR ¹ SE30 │ -0.1 9 -0.1 9 -0.1 9 -0.1 9 -0.1 0 │ -0.8 -0.8 TZA SE30 │ -0.1 10 -0.3 10 -0.3 10 -0.3 10 -0.3 0 │ -0.3 -0.3 ATML OC01 │ -0.1 10 -0.1 10 -0.2 10 -0.2 10 │ -0.9 -0.9 FNSR ² OC02 │ +0.1 9 +0.0 10 +0.4 10 │ -0.8 -0.8 URTY ² OC04 │ -0.1 10 │ -1.2 -1.2 IWM │ +29.1 +29.2 +30.7 +30.1 +28.8 +29.7 │ me │ -2.9 -3.0 -2.7 -2.8 -3.6 -3.0 │ floor │ -4.7 -5.9 -5.9 -6.6 -6.6 -5.9 │

FNSR: Technical indicators wobbling around zero, so bought Monday, sold Tuesday, bought back Wednesday (for a worse price).

URTY: More wobbling.  Sold Friday (for a very good price), bought back an hour later (slightly worse price).

Stock-trading robot

Ticker Symbol		Buy date			Buy price			Sell date			Sell price			Acct Profit
		Model	Actual		M	A		Model	Actual		M	A		M	A
URTY ¹		SE 04 11:00			$60.82	$60.80		OC 04 12:00			$71.15	$71.12		+1.63%	+1.67%
UWM		SE 13 09:30			$69.80			(Not yet)
FNSR ¹		SE 30 09:30			$22.89			OC 01 09:30			$22.59			-0.16%	-0.14%
TZA		SE 30 10:00	SE 30 12:50		$23.35	$22.85		OC 01 11:00	OC 01 10:56		$22.20			-0.55%	-0.31%
ATML		OC 01 09:30			$7.45			OC 04 09:30			$7.34			-0.17%
FNSR ²		OC 02 09:30			$22.73			(Not yet)
URTY ²		OC 04 15:00	OC 04 13:00		$71.63	$71.31		(Not yet)

URTY ¹: Excellent!  Gained almost 14% in a month.  Since I bet only 12% of my money, the total account balance increased by 1.7% as a result of this trade.

URTY ²: Not sure why the robot bought two hours early.  Schwab’s price-quotes were off by several cents at 10am and also at 1pm, which could be a sufficient explanation since the technical “buy” indicators were so marginal.

TZA: Failed to buy at 10am; still having a problem with calculating the initial stop for a short-buy.  Bought manually at 12:30pm.  Stopped out the next day, anyway.