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Just an observation but having trading patterns for several years and made good money at times, but that system hasn't really worked that well for me since the start of the year. I've put that down to the market being near its top and as such volatile due to investor nervousness - probably not helped by Covid.interesting , both @peter2 and i mentionned it but while the market is chaoc, I have found one pretty good prediction:
my portfolio at close will be around 1% below its 2PM value;
was hitting like clockwork last week: small loss stable till lunch 2pm , increasing b closure;
yesterday
+$1.4k profit down to $400 loss roughly 1% of invested funds and today again
$2k to $2.4k profit closing to $500 profit for the day..
should we read something there?: is itsome ramp up for big players exit?
Anyone else experiencing this and what is the lesson to take from this behaviour?
This is with small caps play, my investment side is more stable with more ASX 200 stocks and kept the profits today
Anyway, last year I set up a hypothetical medium-term trading portfolio of 10 mid/high cap shares diversified over sectors so that a few people I was helping to understand the market could see in real time the sort of buy, hold or fold and stop loss descisions that have to be made - something theory never really prepares one for. Buys were ideally price coming off a significant low and broken above a technical weekly downtrend Exit was a break of trend or a percentage fall below a higher weekly trough. While my own trading has been 3 steps forward and 2 back (sometimes 2 forward and 3 back), that portfolio (which only gets reviewed once a week - to make it easily manageable for those without a lot of time) is up over 20% in nine months. I've closed out 11 trades over that time. I've been so impressed by the performance of this system that I have adopted it for my own trading in recent months (although I still can't resist a really strong pattern I stumble over).
For the 2 days of this week that portfolio has put on 1% as against the XAO's 0.6% - which is consistent with its performance since inception.