Week of 2014 AL 17

IWM rose by 2.2% this week, while my account rose 0.2%.  The loss-floor has fallen to -6.5%.

US markets were closed for Good Friday.

End of week allocations: 75% equities, 64% cash

% gain size │ Max loss Sym  Buy │  Fri  Mon  Tue  Wed  Thu  Fri │ Beg   End   TZA AL10 │ +0.4 11 +0.3 11 +0.2 11 +0.1 10 +0.1 10 │ -0.9 -0.9 SRTY AL14 │ +0.2 11 +0.1 10 -0.2 10 -0.2 10 │ -0.1 -0.1 URTY AL16 │ +0.3 14 +0.5 14 │ -1.8 -2.2 TNA AL16 │ +0.0 10 +0.2 11 │ -1.0 -1.0 IWM │   -4.1   -3.8   -3.5   -2.4   -1.9    │ me │ -3.0 -2.9 -3.1 -3.2 -2.8 │ floor │ -4.3 -4.4 -4.4 -7.1 -6.5 │

URTY: The stop price dropped sharply (to -2.8%) right after I bought this, then rose back to -2.2% for Thursday.  That seems to happen rather often with these trades, although I haven’t done the research to characterize the issue.  Hopefully the market will continue to rise and so will my stop price.

Stock-trading robot

The robot worked properly this week.  All trades went through on time.

Ticker Symbol		Buy date			Buy price			Sell date			Sell price			Acct Profit
		Model	Actual		M	A		Model	Actual		M	A		M	A
SRTY ⁰		AL 10 11:00	(Skipped)		$42.48			AL 14 10:00			$45.30			+0.40%	+0.00%
TZA		AL 10 15:00			$17.29	$17.30		AL 16 10:00			$17.41	$17.48		+0.07%
SRTY ¹		AL 14 13:00			$44.33			AL 16 10:00	AL 16 09:31		$43.85	$43.82		-0.14%	-0.15%
URTY		AL 16 11:00			$77.99	$78.02		(Not yet)
TNA		AL 16 15:00			$69.30	$69.31		(Not yet)

SRTY ⁰: Skipped this trade due to last week’s memory-limit problem with the robot.  Would have been a winner.

TZA: As has been usual for TZA trades since August 2011, this one barely made any profit.  But I didn’t lose, even though I was “fighting the Fed“!

SRTY ¹: Another loser trade.  Too bad I skipped two winners in a row.

URTY, TNA: So far, so good!

ATML: There is a “Buy” order for Monday.