Week of 2014 MR 28

IWM fell by 3.7% this week, while my account fell 2.2%.  The loss-floor has risen to -2.1% because I am out of the market.

In the last nine weeks, the market has gained 0.8% while I have gained 0.5%.  Boring!

End of week allocations: 90% cash

% gain size │ Max loss Sym  Buy │  Fri  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri │ Beg   End   FRED MR06 │ +0.1 12 +1.0 12 -0.4 12 -0.5 12 -1.1 11 -1.1 11 │ -0.8 -0.8 YHOO MR14 │ +0.5 15 -0.1 15 -0.3 15 -0.3 15 -0.3 15 -0.3 0 │ -0.7 -0.7 URTY MR17 │ +0.0 13 -0.4 13 -0.2 13 -0.2 13 -0.2 13 -0.2 0 │ -1.3 -1.3 UWM MR21 │ -0.1 13 +0.0 13 +0.0 13 +0.0 13 +0.0 0 │ -0.8 -0.8 IWM │   +3.0   +1.8   +1.5   -0.4   -0.7   -0.7 │ me │ +0.1 -0.8 -1.3 -1.4 -2.1 -2.1 │ floor │ -3.9 -3.1 -1.7 -1.7 -2.1 -2.1 │

Stock-trading robot

The robot remains non-functional.  I put in a lot of time at my day-job this week and made money that way!  Still continuing to put off that OS upgrade for the robot’s server-in-the-cloud.

Ticker Symbol		Buy date			Buy price			Sell date			Sell price			Acct Profit
		Model	Actual		M	A		Model	Actual		M	A		M	A
FRED		MR 06 09:30			$19.90			MR 27	MR 27 09:30		$18.57	$18.13		-0.86%	-1.11%
YHOO		MR 14 09:30			$36.69	$36.73		MR 25 09:30	MR 25 12:11		$37.00	$36.02		+0.08%	-0.32%
URTY		MR 17 14:00			$93.76	$94.03		MR 24 11:00	MR 25 09:30		$90.00	$92.96		-0.48%	-0.19%
UWM		MR 18	MR 24 14:30		$88.81	$89.60		MR 24 09:30			$90.23	$90.02		+0.15%	+0.02%
SRTY ¹		MR 24 13:00	(Skipped)		$39.88			MR 25 10:00			$38.36			-0.35%	+0.00%
SRTY ²		MR 26 15:00	(Skipped)		$40.54			MR 28 10:00			$40.99			+0.11%	+0.00%
SRTY ³		MR 28 15:00	(Skipped)		$41.96			(Not yet)							+0.00%

FRED: Nasty stop-out!  Opened at $18.84, fell to $18.05 within the first minute.  Schwab sold 7% of my shares at around $18.31, 23% of them at $18.29, and 70% at about $18.06

YHOO: Sold late.  Due to robot screw-up, I didn’t notice that I was supposed to put in a sell order for this one!

URTY: Sold late due to robot failure.  Lucked out — I lost less money than expected!

UWM: At least I didn’t lose money on this one!  In retrospect, I would have been better off skipping this trade (which had been postponed due to lack of liquid cash).

SRTY: Skipped these trades because the robot is not working.