Wednesday's Small Lots

The markets began to turn sideways to down this morning, sending the MACD histograms on my holdings into a downtrend. Based on the signals, I exited all of my small-lots positions, four for a profit and three for a loss.

sym	shares	entry date	exit date	entry price per share	exit price per share	result $	result %	annual rate	days held	tactic
AXAS	76	8/9/2016	8/10/2016	1.32	1.21	-0.11	-9.09%	-3318.18%	1	earns
BBD	11	8/5/2016	8/10/2016	8.98	9.05	0.07	0.77%	56.46%	5	turtle
ITUB	9	8/3/2016	8/10/2016	11.15	11.20	0.05	0.45%	23.28%	7	turtle
RYI	7	8/9/2016	8/10/2016	14.28	13.15	-1.13	-8.59%	-3136.50%	1	earns
SN	13	8/9/2016	8/10/2016	7.80	7.82	0.02	0.26%	93.35%	1	earns
TESO	7	8/8/2016	8/10/2016	7.39	7.21	-0.18	-2.50%	-455.62%	2	earns
XEC	1	8/3/2016	8/10/2016	118.80	127.98	9.18	7.17%	374.02%	7	earns

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 10, 2016

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References

Tradecraft: Playing the odds to build winning stock market trades from options, a description of how I trade, can be read here.

Small Lots: A new strategy discusses the thinking behind the analysis that identified these trades and can be read here. The symbols noted in this post are intended fortrading on a commission-free platform such as Robinhood Financial.

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