SKE trade

Recent SKE trade. I ignored the profit exit signalled over christmas due to light volume and let it run until the exit signalled this week. I've tested not taking the profit exits and it doesn't matter if I ignore them occasionally. Got out on the close this week. Nothing startling at 28% but also nothing to complain about.

Trading Performance & MSA software

I imported all my trades from January 2003 to Q1 2006 into Market System Analyzer software from Adaptrade (www.adaptrade.com) and got the following results;



Not a bad time to be trading.

P/E ratios on the ASX

P/E ratios suggest that the market is actually quite cheap, even though the market is hitting new highs. Data is up to the end of February 2006. We haven't seen P/E's this low since the early 90's.

Data from http://www.rba.gov.au/Statistics/AlphaListing/alpha_listing_s.html - you can download the spreadsheet for Sharemarkets.

Stevo

Quarterly Performance - Q1 2006

Quarterly performance of my long term trading portfolio - excluding dividends. Most of the profits shown in the last quarter haven't been realised. Realised profits for the current financial year are $7,727, less than half the dividend payments so far received, whilst the portfolio is currently sitting on $185,000 of unrealised gains, up over $100,000 since the last quarter.

Stevo