The last 6 months

Trade entry and exit are from the last set of orange arrows on each chart.

They are not all winners.

 Sun was a long relatively fruitless trade, the only bonus being some dividends.

 MIN was not a disaster, but it didn't make much.

 I lost some money on this one and the next one.

July 2011

Only one buy signal was triggered.

The nicest sell for the month is shown below. I bought LYC for at $0.83 and got out at $1.88, 127% gain over 11 months on a reasonable position size. Not in the MSB trade league that I had earlier this year, but not too bad.

I am still offloading some positions for the month.

MSB trade

MSB turned out to be a big winner. I had a profit exit in April 2011 and exited at an average price of $8.97. Purchase price average $1.41, giving a gain of 537% over 17 months. It was nice to sell into a rising price on MSB.

I also had a couple of small losers, CFE (-18%)  and RED (-25%) but fortunately the MSB gains made these losses insignificant.

I didn't get any buy signals at the end of April, only sells.

stevo

Some Small Gains

These are 2 relatively short trades for me, considering that this portfolio has a couple of "trades" that have been running for well over a year.

IGR trade 14.3% gain

AVO trade 8.3% gain

I have been targeting getting in and out of stocks on the open or the close. I find that I can put through good volumes in these periods, although I should do a bit more reading about the process that occurs at these critical market periods.



stevo

First sell this year

Out of SBM at breakeven.

Just a chart

Just a chart for The Chartist

First post for 2011!