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Trade Update: March 2012 S&P 500 E-Mini Futures
Our stop was hit at $1,283 to purchase one contract of March 2012 S&P futures for a net profit of $300. This leaves us with a remaining position of a single contract short.
This is a fictitious model portfolio managed to demonstrate trading techniques which may be used to trade a speculative account. […]
Closed: March 2012 No. 11 Sugar Futures
Our stop was hit at 23.87 taking us out of the trade for a modest gain of $515. We will discuss the sugar trade more in our weekly wrap-up this weekend.
This is a fictitious model portfolio managed to demonstrate trading techniques which may be used to trade a speculative account. The […]
Trade Update: March 2012 E-Mini S&P 500 Futures
While price action in the equity markets remains consistent with a downturn, the recent advance allows for possible short-term bullish interpretations. Our trade was intended to achieve a larger move than has been been seen so far, but we don’t want to give up all our profits should the trade turn against us. […]
Trade Update: March 2012 No. 11 Sugar Futures
Price action in Sugar is inconsistent with our short-term outlook. It is still possible for the trade to work, but in order to protect ourselves, we are immediately lowering our stops to 23.87. This may stop us out prematurely, but we can always re-enter the trade if it looks attractive after any stops are triggered. […]
Trade Update: March 2012 E-Mini S&P 500 Futures
Following today’s decline we will move our stops in the in the March 2012 E-Mini S&P 500 futures contract. Our initial entry was based on the cash S&P 500 index and anticipation of where prices should stop if our analysis of a topping pattern was correct. Now that we have broken […]
New Trade Setup: March 2012 E-Mini S&P Futures
The model portfolio will sell short 2 contracts of March 2012 E-Mini S&P Futures at $1289.00. We have no advance notice of this trade, but it can be taken from lower prices. Our initial stop will be placed at $1,301.00. We will discuss the trade in more depth in an end-of-day update. […]
Portfolio Review for Week Ending 1/6/2012
We are comfortable with our open positions after our first week managing the model portfolio. Our position short sugar futures was opened on Thursday and the dramatic drop increases the likelihood that the commodity is resuming its downtrend. Taking out mid-December lows will further add to this potential. Thursday’s sharp decline […]
Daily Portfolio Summary 1/5/2012
The model portfolio performed well today. At 11:03am our sugar futures sell stop triggered getting us short from 24.10. Sugar spent the next 45 minutes going sideways and then took a steep dive to hit its low of the day within an hour of our entry. Sugar closed the day at 23.17 after a sideways […]
New Trade Setup: March Sugar
The model portfolio will sell short 2 contracts of March 2012 No. 11 Sugar at the market on any trade below $24.10. Our initial stop will be placed at $24.66. We have our sights set on sugar trading to at least the $18.00 range. If March sugar trades above $24.46 before our […]
New Trade Setup: IBM Puts
The model portfolio will buy 2 contracts of April 2012 IBM $185 puts for $10.00. Our initial stop loss will be if IBM trades above 188.75. Our initial target is a $173 price on IBM.
The Managematics Model Portfolio is a fictitious portfolio managed to demonstrate trading techniques which may be used to trade […]