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Live Trading System Signals on April 12, 2024

The 250K Portfolio was down on the day by -$925 but up on the week by almost 4K or 1.6%. It is good to be trading in Q2 and up on the month and on the quarter. We continue to work to get back the Q1 losses.


The Stock Index Portfolio was down -$4,050 on the day but up on the week from our drawdown entry alert for the full trading Wednesday -Friday by about $500.


I will update the Portfolio Calculator this week. Less and less Nasdaq may be on the table. It served us well yesterday but if we can rotate risk, we will!


Wow on the wild afternoon moves in commodities with big reversals in Crude, Gold, and Silver. Gold was up on the day in our trading. Silver trades were "ghosted" in the new platform update which worked to our advantage since Silver was a net loss. End of day Copper trading was also ghosted as Copper surged at the end of the day and we missed that move. Lots of strange spikey moves. Coffee surged today and then sold off into the close.

 
 
 

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