Historical Returns

The following represents the BLOG's 2010 ETF returns vis-a-vis other benchmark investment measures:

------------$Initial-----%Growth----$Return-----$Result
BLOG-----$100,000----26.6%-----$26,646-----$126,646
S&P 500--$100,000----12.8%-----$12,783------$112,783
1.5% CD--$100,000-----1.5%----- $1,500-----$101,500


S&P result excludes dividends.
Return on one Futures Contract: $137,684 (roughly margin of $25,000 to $50,000).
Please see the BLOG page on "Shortcomings and Limitations."

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Lackluster Day

Today was not very memorable. We were stopped out of silver. Most of our programmed trades lose ground in the first couple of days.

The winners tend to last much longer as evidenced by the current Platinum and British Pound positions. If you haven't had a chance yet, take a look at the post dated April 19. It shows a graph of our best trade of the year so far, up 17.1%. This Russell 2000 move is quite impressive, when you think about it. The breadth of market move was strong, and outpaced less broad stock market indices.

For tomorrow, buy silver (I know, we were just stopped out). The record on the computer system is 91 wins out of 106 trades, or 86%. The symbols are SIK10 and SLV. The average number of bars in each trade is only 4! So, if you are looking for a long-term trade, this isn't it!

Our usual statistics follow:

PORTFOLIO #1 Symbol Entry Stop Close Profit Days
Long Platinum PLJ10 1534.90 1653.70 1744.20 $10,465 57
Long Zealand NE1M10 71.15 69.20 70.83 -$320 8
Long Zealand BNZ 22.45 21.92 22.44 0.0% 8
Short S&P SPM10 1195.75 1230.75 1201.75 -$300 3
Short S&P SH 48.00 46.69 47.82 -0.4% 3
Long Aussie ADM10 92.13 90.53 92.23 $100 2
Long Aussie FXA 92.87 91.38 93.10 0.2% 2

PORTFOLIO #2
Open Positions Symbol Entry Stop Close Profit Days
Long British BPM10 149.75 151.11 153.77 $2,513 24
Long British FXB 150.46 150.66 153.31 1.9% 24


Closed Positions #2 Symbol Entry Out Profit Days
Short Silver SIK10 17.77 18.01 -$1,200 2
Short Silver ZSL 38.17 37.96 -0.6% 2


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