Welcome in my trading report for November 2015. There were a lot of great stock, with nice move up/down. But unfortunately only some of them meet my criteria for opening position. Because of that I haven’t been trading whole month. I take a break whenever I see that there is not the best time for my strategies.
If you wanna now my result and trading statistics for November – read more.
The most important events on stock exchange in November
Few very strong session, especially in mid-November. Nice move down and quick move up. Other session with low volatility, not the best for me.
Number of trading days
In November there was 20 trading days. Ok, 19 and half. 26th was Thanksgiving Day, 27th – Black Monday, session closed at 1 p.m.
Personally I trade in August in 14-15 sessions. On the rest I have some holidays.
Events affecting trading
No important events in November. But again, I was testing some new things in my strategy. It was 3rd month that I’ve been implementing it. From January 2016 I will focus only 4 setups that I’ve been improving recently.
Monthly balance sheet
I finished the November with a result: 4.41%.
Previous month: 8.95%
This is a result including average capital, which in the month scale was invested in opened positions.
Wasn’t bad but also I’m not satisfied. Should better trade especially in mid-November, when big moves occured.
Summary result from the beginning of year: 110.98%.
This is a result including average capital, which in the month scale was invested in opened positions.
I have a constant level of used capital. I don’t raise it, because I don’t have such a need – I use solid strategies that are adapted up to specified value of opened position. Invested funds are increased, when I raise the volume of opened positions. Therefore, it is included in the monthly balance sheet.
Generated profits in a given month are paid from the trading account.
Transaction statistics
Below I present analysis of concluded transactions. This analysis is carried out by me every day before the session. Below I place an analysis in the scale of entire month along with information which from my point of view are the most important and to which I pay attention modifying my strategy in subsequent sessions.
In November I conducted 4044 transactions to the total number of 191 companies. Huge number of transactions. What is more important – almost half of them I made in just few session. Due to overtrading – I will write about this a little more soon.
Average value of a single position
Average value to opened position: 1051 shares.
Previous month: 998 shares.
Average size of the position remain at the same level.
Average time of keeping all positions.
In November: 2 minutes 43 second (in October 3 minutes 42 seconds).
With division into positions:
- long: 2 minutes 22 seconds
- short: 3 minutes 44 seconds
Again short positions were held longer. What again is a confirmation that short trading is more often and longer used by me. I like such trade far more.
Transaction effectiveness
Effectiveness in November: 45.06% (in October 47.98%)
With division into positions:
- long: 46.41%
- short: 41.19%
The effectiveness in November decreased. Mostly because of these few session with overtrading. A lot of transaction without any sense, that only cost me tons of commission. But what is important for me: effectiveness when using momentum/breakdown is again on 60-65% level. Much lower is effectiveness when scalping.
Effectiveness with division into hours
Pre market – again the best effectiveness. I do like trading when there is not a lot of algos around. I’m also satisfied with effectiveness between 1 to 3 p.m. Most of good breakout/breakdown occur this time.
How it looked like in last month:
Effectiveness with division into weekdays
Friday – my worst day at the only day on red.
Fixed costs from trading
Below I present costs that involve use of: platform, quoting, additional orders of shorts from the HTB list (hard to borrow).
- Trading platform: 130$/month
- Quoting: 285.74$/month
- Sterling Scanner: 40$/month
- Trade Ideas scanner: 43$/month
- Benzinga PRO news: 39$/month
- Hard to borrow list: 17$
Fixed costs is a platform and quoting (in case of quoting I use all data, hence the maximum price). Additionally, I use scanners and system of news.
Hard to borrow – it’s cost of order additional shorts, which aren’t free available in a given session.
Note that I don’t treat the above mentioned charges as an expense. Of course, if they weren’t – I wouldn’t be mad 🙂 However, they constitute an indispensable monthly element. The same as loss positions, there are costs which I incur in order to use fully my strategies.
Thank you for reviewing my report trading. In consecutive month there will be other! Meanwhile, feel free to add comments below!
Described above statistics concern the account, which I use as part of RemoteDayTraderGroup.com; It is group of Proprietary Trading type – focused on trading on American stock exchanges of NYSE | NASDAQ | AMEX.
