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August 21st, 2005 by eyal | Filed under General rant, Personal development, Trading Plan. |
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There’s a good post by txtrader about Trading Journals. My broker (IB) doesn’t offer these features and I always distrusted the various trade reporting applications (and didn’t want to pay for them hehe) so I’m keeping track of my trades in a spreadsheet I setup for this. I record my trades at the end of every day or if really lazy / busy then at the beginning of the next day. The post by txtrader got me thinking about how am I actually using the log and that led to playing around with it for a couple of hours today. So now I have some nice graphs on my spreadsheet. I plot:
Equity curve
Distribution of wins/losses
Ratio of wins/losses
Amounts per stock
It is very interesting to look at the results in this way. I can’t believe I didn’t add these things for so long. Well, you live (and read blogs) and learn :)
I need to get some graphs going in my journal/spreadsheet too.
On another note, is your Wordpress configured to ping weblogs.com when you make a new post? My blogroll hasn’t caught any of your updates.
Doung, Thanks, I’m getting the ‘divorce’ looks from my dog instead :)
Hey Mike, the wordpress is set to update http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ I’ve never done anything with pings before.. I use an RSS reader that notifies me. Do you ping a number of sites? I just added a couple of more ping services: rpc.weblogs.com and ping.blo.gs so hopefully things will get updated.
Thanks for the tip.
Btw, saw you’ve just wrote THE “Day Trading 101 Resources” post :) Good stuff.
Ping-o-matic should be pinging weblogs.com and blo.gs for you but apparently it hasn’t been. I think it’s a good idea to ping those two services directly. Hopefully your blog will jump to the top of my blogroll after your next update.
Since you asked, here’s the list of services that I’ve configured Movable Type to ping (aside from webogs.com, blo.gs and technorati, which it’s configured for by default):
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
Again, ping-o-matic pings all of these itself but I think they get so many pings that many requests are probably getting lost in the shuffle.
Cool. Thanks for the list, I’ve added those in.