Buffalo Bill Legend   Posts: 539 Joined: 10/3/2006 Location: Stafford, VA  User Profile | Side note: On a few of those I made up the losses (and more) by buying the stock in my 401k near the lows and letting them recover (after figuring out the reason for the initial losses. Sometimes it's a good company that just missed earnings and wall st over-reacts creating a good buy). CBB is a good current example - I lost $4K in ATM on CBB but have made $9k (and still growing) in my 401k on CBB. ATM highlighted this possibility. I didn't do this in my ATM acct bc I want this to test the ATM system not me doing things on the side. At the end of July I looked at the individual perf of each strat and killed the poor performers (abt 1/2 the strats). For Aug it is 6/7 winners, with 3 open and all 3 are profitable right now. And Aug has been a choppy month so I'm thinking this year will be much better. BUT the perf is nowhere near the historical BT numbers - 20% vs predicted (based on 10yr BT ave) of 90% yearly ROI. I am building a new ATM system using the new Arm6 capabilities and focusing on HA bars. We'll see. Until then I'm letting this one run  Attached file : ATM perf.jpg (411KB - 336 downloads) |
