Showing posts with label trading performance frequency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trading performance frequency. Show all posts

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Trading profit & loss - frequency of profits & losses


The chart shows the frequency of trade returns in dollars for my portfolio. There are a total of 129 trades in the results. Looking at the chart 38 trades lost between $0 and $5000. 58 trades lost money out of the 129. The results are based on portfolio status up to the end of October.
One trade lost more than $15,000 - a lesson about trading whilst on holidays and double checking everything. I got the position sizing very wrong with this losing trade and suffered more than double the loss I should have. If you trade more than one portfolio make sure you don't place an order in the wrong portfolio. Overall though the chart is nicely skewed in my favour.
HumbleMoney inspired this post http://www.humblemoney.com/?p=140
Stevo