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Trading strategy journal

Welcome to a trading strategy journal, where real trades are shown on a live trading account.

About us:

  • Trading professionally since August 2008

About the strategy:

  • For the past few years it was traded on a real account under management and beat the S&P500 benchmark by 25-30%
  • The strategy uses the most liquid stocks and ETFs and it could process A LOT more volume

Goals for 2025:

  • Beat the S&P500 benchmark by 25-50% while preserving capital and preventing significant drawdowns
  • Use a public trade journal to record trades and account balance
  • Gauge interest for this type of content, and if there’s significant following then:
    • Showcase a larger portfolio
    • Offer trading signals
    • Offer trading education
    • Offer account management service

The forward test started on Feb 12, 2025 with the following initial values:

Feb 12, 2025 – starting account balance: $151,372.71

Feb 11, 2025 – SPY close: $605.31

Results:

TBA

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20 Year Treasury Bonds CDNS Dow Jones ETF GGLL GOOGL IEF MSFT NVDA Options QQQ S&P500 SNPS SOXL SPXL TLT TMF TSLA UDOW UPRO URA