The number of consecutive profitable trades

[pftrader]

All of the trades are on here but not in one place. When I start a new streak I only show the current streak on my homepage to avoid clutter. If you want to dig up all the old ones since the beginning of time and post here please feel free.

Ok, very well. I just thought you would have a full list somewhere that would have been easy to post. Personally I keep a file with all my trades.

It would probably have saved me a few hours of research, but if you don't keep track of the trades it is OK, I will search for them myself.

Thanks Mr. Market

[skiracer]

Ok, very well. I just thought you would have a full list somewhere that would have been easy to post. Personally I keep a file with all my trades.

It would probably have saved me a few hours of research, but if you don't keep track of the trades it is OK, I will search for them myself.

Thanks Mr. Market

pf,
i sure your reasons are valid and important to you but why would you need a complete list going back that far. do you work for the IRS or something. other that trying to see whether or not mm is as good as he states what could be the purpose. he's as good at it as he states. maybe he slants it in his direction somewhat but who doesnt. overall you could do alot worse and probably are.

[pftrader]

pf,
i sure your reasons are valid and important to you but why would you need a complete list going back that far. do you work for the IRS or something. other that trying to see whether or not mm is as good as he states what could be the purpose. he's as good at it as he states. maybe he slants it in his direction somewhat but who doesnt. overall you could do alot worse and probably are.

I know that he is as good as he states, I know he is even better than that.

That is why I want to learn from him and his past trades. I don't learn anything if I just do nothing.

I can't believe how hard it can be for you to understand that going through historical trades can be very rewarding, whether it is going over your own trades (winning or losing) or someone else's trades (winning or losing). In this case I find it very interesting and worthwhile to go through the trades of Mr. Market.

Especially rewarding is to play back the events bar by bar, and analyze how I would have reacted to how the trade turns out. Psychology can mess up your mind, and sometimes you enter or exit trades when you shouldn't have.

If you don't understand my way of learning, fine, but don't judge me.

I have got my answer from Mr. Market and I have started to gather the all the trades I can find.

[pftrader]

All of the trades are on here but not in one place. When I start a new streak I only show the current streak on my homepage to avoid clutter. If you want to dig up all the old ones since the beginning of time and post here please feel free.

With Mr. Market's permission here are some I have dug up - if someone would actually happen to be interested. These are closed trades from 2004 to 2007. I do have the prices and gains also if needed.

Ticker, entered, exited

HZO 3/11/2004 4/6/2004
PDX 3/30/2004 4/22/2004
DECK 5/3/2004 8/3/2004
HDWR 9/21/2004 11/11/2004
SPF 4/14/2004 12/10/2004
MCRI 11/12/2004 12/22/2004
CMN 12/30/2004 3/22/2005
CME 12/15/2004 6/22/2005
DW 6/22/2004 6/29/2005
HANS 7/6/2005 7/19/2005
ARLP 1/21/2005 7/29/2005
FLIR 8/5/2004 8/1/2005
SNHY 7/14/2005 8/1/2005
BMHC 8/3/2005 9/6/2005
CMTL 3/29/2005 9/22/2005
CIB 8/9/2005 11/10/2005
HOLX 11/18/2005 12/21/2005
RIO 9/30/2005 1/31/2006
QSII 12/27/2005 2/7/2006
GGB 2/7/2006 3/1/2006
WIRE 2/16/2006 3/13/2006
AXR 7/6/2006 10/3/2006
FRGB 8/29/2005 10/5/2006
CNXS 9/12/2005 10/9/2006
AOB 12/15/2006 1/17/2007
CHAP 12/8/2006 3/22/2007
EXM 2/21/2007 4/20/2007
BBD 3/20/2006 4/10/2007
PCU 5/18/2007 7/3/2007
VIP 4/3/2007 7/9/2007
VSEC 7/11/2007 7/23/2007
RIMM 8/7/2007 9/13/2007

[Karel]

With Mr. Market's permission here are some I have dug up - if someone would actually happen to be interested. These are closed trades from 2004 to 2007. I do have the prices and gains also if needed.

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A quick search reveals 68 buy announcements, so you have a while to go

And most people are just not interested in raw data. Just work at your conclusions and present them.

And you should decide what to do when the streak is reset, which happens when one stock is bought out under the target price, or $$$Mr. Market$$$ decides to do some spring (summer, autumn, winter) cleaning. All stocks bought before the stocks that were discarded were bought drop off the radar here, but some might turn out to be winners later.

Regards,

Karel

[pftrader]

A quick search reveals 68 buy announcements, so you have a while to go

And most people are just not interested in raw data. Just work at your conclusions and present them.

And you should decide what to do when the streak is reset, which happens when one stock is bought out under the target price, or $$$Mr. Market$$$ decides to do some spring (summer, autumn, winter) cleaning. All stocks bought before the stocks that were discarded were bought drop off the radar here, but some might turn out to be winners later.

Regards,

Karel

Thanks Karel

I know, most people are not interested in doing any work themselves, only being presented with ready picks and getting everything served. This is of course normal in all aspect of life.

I'm especially interested in seeing what could be accomplished by using a different exit strategy than going for 15-20% from the get-go. I have experience of reading price action and find myself usually being better than simply setting a profit taking level at some certain percentage. And stop-loss of course.

By reading the price action I can either get out quicker if the trade turns sour, or ride the trade for more profit if I see strength when the profit taking level says I should get out. I can find optimal entry level, instead of buying the stock randomly.

The more you read charts, the better you get. If you have the ambition and work ethic to put in some hard work, that is. Not all do.

[skiracer]

what you should be studying is how he arrives at his choices. what the parameters of his scans are and why. his discipline is entirely to the fundamental side and related to earnings, pe, and forward pe's. but that doesnt necessarily mean that his entries are at the best time just that his picks are fundamentally very sound. but even more important is that building a sound base of the technical aspects of stock charts so that you can evaluate for yourself whether or not the timing is right for any entry whether it's mm's, your own, or someone elses. i wasnt judging you but if it appeared that way then i apologize.

[pftrader]

what you should be studying is how he arrives at his choices. what the parameters of his scans are and why. his discipline is entirely to the fundamental side and related to earnings, pe, and forward pe's. but that doesnt necessarily mean that his entries are at the best time just that his picks are fundamentally very sound. but even more important is that building a sound base of the technical aspects of stock charts so that you can evaluate for yourself whether or not the timing is right for any entry whether it's mm's, your own, or someone elses. i wasnt judging you but if it appeared that way then i apologize.

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