Week of 2014 MR 07

IWM rose by 1.9% this week, to a new all-time high.  My account did not change.  The loss-floor has fallen to -2.2%.

World news: Russia has sent troups into Crimea, after a “popular” revolution in Ukraine that the Americans were apparently promoting via the CIA, as is their wont.  China and India support Russia.  There seems little the West can do about this, so WWIII is probably not imminent.

The gap between market performance and my performance (blue line and green bars) has now increased to 3.3%, due primarily to the sudden rally on Tuesday.  This was presumably the US Fed doing its usual panic money-printing to prevent the market from falling any further on war fears.  My robot’s cautiousness will keep causing it to lose money — until someday the market finally overwhelms the Fed and insists on having a correction, which hasn’t happened since August 2011.  A 20% correction is way overdue.

End of week allocations: 81% equities, 55% cash

% gain size │ Max loss Sym  Buy │  Fri  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri │ Beg   End   URTY FE06 │ +2.3 12 +2.1 12 +3.0 13 +3.0 13 +3.0 13 +2.9 13 │ +0.9 +1.3 TNA¹ FE11 │ +2.7 22 +2.0 22 +2.0 22 +2.0 22 +2.0 0 │ +1.9 +2.0 TNA² MR04 │ -0.1 10 -0.1 10 -0.1 10 -0.2 10 │ -1.2 -0.5 FRED MR06 │ -0.0 12 +0.2 12 │ -0.9 -0.8 IWM │   +2.1   +1.5   +4.1   +4.0   +4.0   +4.0 │ me │ +0.7 -0.2 +0.6 +0.6 +0.6 +0.7 │ floor │ -1.4 -1.3 -2.0 -2.0 -2.8 -2.2 │

TNA: Jumped out of this, then market rose, then jumped back in.  Poor timing!

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		FE 06 11:00	FE 06 12:34		$75.45	$75.05		(Not yet)
TNA¹		FE 11 12:00	FE 11 12:28		$69.56	$69.76		MR 03 11:00	MR 03 10:14		$77.97	$77.95		+2.05%	+2.01
		FE 13 12:00			$71.64	$71.59
TNA²		MR 04 11:00			$85.87	$85.90		(Not yet)
FRED		MR 06 09:30			$19.90			(Not yet)
AGQ		MR 07 09:30	(Skipped)		$71.00			MR 07 09:30			$70.81			-0.09%	0.00%

TNA¹: Stopped out just before market reversed back up.  Technically a good trade, both profitable and hewing close to model.

AGQ: Got a “buy” signal for Friday, but skipped it because SMA(q) was below CHANDELIER⁻(c,a).  The recently-added rule to skip these guaranteed-bad trades was ineffective because SLV (which I chart) had a small amount of headroom between limit-price and stop-price, while AGQ (which I trade) did not.

YHOO: Buy-limit not reached on Thursday.

ATML: Buy-limit not reached Thursday (off by a penny) or Friday (wish I had bought Thursday).  Try again next Monday.

UWM: Will try to buy it next Monday.