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The automated trading system (aka “The Damn Thing”) has been running every trading day since March 17 without any real problems. So we have over a month of statistics to go over. The more trading results and the more statistics we have, the better idea we have on how well the system will perform in the future.
Here is a chart of cumulative returns in terms of R (risk per trade) for each day since Mar 17:

It is up 33.47R in 27 trading days, which is great - that is an average of +1.24R per day. I can only hope that it will continue to do this well in the future.

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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The ATS was pretty flat this week, only making +0.27R and $12.96 on 20 trades. Only 6 of the 20 trades made money, for a win rate of 30%, which sucks. Expectancy for the week was +0.01.
With 3 trading days left in April, we’re up about 17R.

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” - William O’Neil

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Twist is pretty cool - it allows you to see trends in Twitter. For example, here is a chart comparing the terms “coffee” and “tea” as they have been posted on twitter for the last week:

It seems that each morning, when twitter users drink their coffee, they post something like “I am drinking my coffee now,” or other fascinating information like “this coffee is delicious.”
Actually, Twist lets you look at what people have posted about your search terms, so here is what people are actually saying about coffee every morning when they drink their coffee:

coffeechica: Hanging out w/ Marta in the lobby, drinking coffee and working on an lj_2008 post. GOOD morning!
Taoski: Just had death by meeting… My mind was wandering off in the pursuit of coffee and profitable niches
DaleChumbley: @wvagent Sorry for the identity crisis. Can I help? Good luck with the cOffee fix. Let me know how that works for ya.
_alan_: is powered by coffee, baby, YEah.
bug77: Recovering from spoiled half & half in my coffee. For a minute there I thought I was dying.
Softwear_Chic: icing foot, drinking coffee, on conference calls…no high-heels today
wanderlusttrav: Making coffee
sirtimbly: Kona is the most fantastic tasting coffee I’ve ever tasted, it’s Kona day at the coffee shop today!
jonbro: drinking coffee out a paper cup.
brockter: at the coffee shop…hegemony, hierarchy, and heterarchy are the keywords for today…