2012年2月29日星期三

今日交易 - 贪婪的华尔街

今天出了一些利多的消息,欧洲央行发放低息贷款,美国GDP,PMI超出预期。但牛市只维持了一个小时。Bernanke的讲话没有涉及新的刺激计划,令市场很失望。股市下跌,黄金暴降。贪婪的华尔街。


通过上面的$RTU的PF曲线可以看出,空头很难控制市场。

市场头一小时和最后一小时发展很快。上午没有交易。在大部分时间内,市场的高低点都出现头一小时内,我的计算方法无法得出成功率高的判断。下午感觉空头有优势,交易了一次$TZA,基本成功。

2012年2月28日星期二

读经书

《圣经》的字真小啊。读了两周才看了一百多页,第二章还没有完成。知道了一些故事,或是传说。还没有发现有价值的地方。希望能够有所发现。

读《圣经》里面的故事,想起了老子的话“天地不仁,以万物为刍狗;圣人不仁,以百姓为刍狗”。

读了几本《周易》的书,没有领会到什么。

《古兰经》看了一些,列为下一个目标了。经常和同车的巴基斯坦人讨论宗教,他对我的评价是“对上帝的理解比许多高级神职人员要好”。其实我说的还是恩格斯《自然辩证法》里的东西。无神论没有给出答案。现有宗教的答案太过于简单。

今日交易 - 乐观的美国人

今天DOW终于收在13000上了,是2008年5月以来的第一次。挺佩服美国人的乐观精神的。今天美国的多项经济数据很差,唯一的亮点是二月消费者信心指数。随着消费者信心上涨的还有信用卡帐单。S&P500和NASDAQ也高收。RUSSELL2000下跌。市场存在分化。黄金大涨。

希望黄金不要涨得太快。交易了一次$TNA,基本成功。计算的价格区间与实际基本一致。没有抓住$TZA的机会。采用的方法侧重于安全的方向,不利于把握利润大的方向。还需要调整。没有变化头寸,尝试做空。

2012年2月27日星期一

今日交易

市场受欧洲问题影响低开,十分钟内迅速下跌近一个点。在发布美国一月房屋销售数据后,市场转变为牛市。DOW多次超过13000点(psychologically important milestone),但同上周几天一样,收市前跌下13000。看来心理价位还是很起作用的。黄金下跌。

近来美国经济数据出奇得好,令人不敢相信。看来美国政府下了功夫美化数字。美国还有大约五分之一的适龄劳动人员在失业。

没有改变仓位。交易了一次$TZA,区间很小,没有赔钱。$TNA上涨太快,没有抓住。感觉当前牛市要结束了,倾向于做空。

The Tunnel Thru The Air

CHAPTER I





CHAPTER II




CHAPTER III

2012年2月26日星期日

2012年2月24日星期五

今日交易

美国的经济数据(二月新房销售等)比预期要好。带动市场冲高。DOW又一次冲上13000,S&P 500也接近新高。但是都没有守住高点。DOW,Russel 2000略降,S&P 500,NASDAQ略升。黄金回落,预计下月及今年黄金表现会好于股票。

平仓了$TZA,有较小利润。今天又多次较大幅度震荡,有较好的当日交易集会,没有都抓住。近来多个利多消息无法带动市场大涨,市场还是牛市,面临调整。没有增加$SPY空头,时机还没有到。

今日交易

今天美国失业数据比预期好,带动了牛市。昨天的熊市没有能够继续。


平仓了$TNA,增加了$TZA。空卖下周$GLD 176 看涨期权,可以约有0.5%收益。二月的$GLD 170 看涨期权有0.8%收益。

2012年2月22日星期三

今日交易

市场开始感觉到熊市的气氛了。表现好的大多是和大宗商品相关的企业。黄金继续上涨,不知道今年能否突破$2000。

交易$TNA没有成功。真是没有感觉啊。手中的$TNA没有平仓,如果明天没有盈利就一定平仓。可以买入少量$SPY的看空期权。

2012年2月21日星期二

今日交易

本周没有重要经济数据。希腊问题暂时得到解决,希腊眼下可以借钱还债了。窟窿越来越大。DOW今天一度达到13000点,后来又降了下来,略涨。黄金大涨,超过两个点。

手中的多头仓位表现很好。交易的$TNA不成功。由此感觉多头力量在减弱。许多交易人员获利清仓了。没有增加任何仓位。以前这种情况下会做空,经常下手太早了,到了熊市到来时反而没有空头仓位了。

2012年2月20日星期一

读书有感

上周终于读完了罗杰斯的 Investment Biker,中文应该是《罗杰斯投资环球旅行》。此书描述的是罗杰斯两次环球旅行的第一次。罗杰斯是典型的自由资本主义者。他几十年前的一些观点、预言,现在已经可以验证结果了。是本不错的书。

现在开始读英译版的《圣经》,繁体中文版和简体中文版读起来太困难了。希望这次能够第一次完整读一遍。由于文化差异,总是无法领会其精髓。比起中国的古典经书的典雅、精深,个人感觉《圣经》是一个粗浅的大杂烩,像是一群没有多少文化的粗人编写的。希望这是我的偏见,通过阅读能够多领悟一些东西。

交易计划

上周DOW和NASDAQ都创下了多年新高。牛市继续。

本周一是美国公共假日。只有四个交易日。保持现有仓位。

2012年2月18日星期六

今日交易

市场高开,出现分化。投资者还是对希腊问题很纠结。

交易$TNA成功。今天价格区间较小。做$TZA更好些。

2012年2月17日星期五

今日交易

美国的经济数据很好,冲散了希腊债务的阴影。多头取得了大胜。

预计市场会在多头、空头的较量中震荡。但是市场一路高走,做空没有机会。不幸的是选择交易$TZA,有较大损失。

2012年2月15日星期三

锻炼 - 健身,节食 - 减肥

有位同事拿了个测脂肪比例的仪器(欧姆龙的)到办公室。我也测量了一下,脂肪比例17%。我没有什么概念。不过比我旁边卧推300磅的猛男低些。

平时锻炼没有注意热量的消耗值。今天听大家议论就留心了一下。我跑步12分钟,2350米,消耗了170卡路里。回家看了一下可口可乐,一罐中的热量是160卡路里。估计锻炼后吃下的芝士蛋糕得有个800,1000卡路里吧。看来减肥的关键不自于锻炼,而在于节食。

要健身去锻炼,要减肥得节食。

美国有个真人秀Biggest Loser。里面大家咬牙切齿锻炼的场面都是噱头,大家一定都是挨饿瘦下去的。

另外,上周三出事故受伤的那位健身者还没有出现。

今日交易

今天出现了近来少见的高开低收。中国救市的传言使市前指数期货大涨。牛市维持了一上午,下午一直下跌。创造了今年单日最大降幅。个指数下跌近一个点。黄金上涨。

本周前三天,空头力量在逐步增强。市场期望一个相当幅度的回调。

现在不想增加任何仓位,只进行少量的当日交易。轮换交易了$TNA和$TZA,继续试验精确把握交易机会和强化交易纪律,基本成功。近来交易金额较小,手续费影响了收益率。

2012年2月14日星期二

今日交易

市场又失去了方向。在今天的大部分时间内市场处于熊市。最后半小时反弹使市场接近平收。多头、空头力量还处于均衡状态。

交易了一次$TNA,略有盈利。今天由于多头、空头势均力敌的争斗很适合当日交易,做多、做空都可以。动作不够快,还不够熟练。

技术特点分析 - $TNA

2012-02

当日交易

1. 上涨时间区间与下跌时间区间大致相等。
2. 出现大幅回调后,早期买入点技术特征:在3分钟Stochatic/Stochatic RSI曲线中,在20水平线下方形成双底或三底;时间跨度与先前的上涨时间大致相等,一般超过30分钟。
3. 出现大幅回调后,晚期买入点技术特征:在3分钟MACD曲线中快速线自下而上穿越;3分钟Stochatic/Stochatic RSI数值超过50。
4. 当前当日大幅回调范围在$1.5-4(当前股价为$62),多出现在上午。
5. 出现次一级回调,在尝试而没有突破支撑线情况下,可以在自下向上穿越Stochatic/ Stochatic RSI 20水平线时买入。
6. 牛市回调时,Stochatic/Stochatic RSI在20以下时间较短。

一定要注意重要信息发布的时间,最后避开。

2012年2月13日星期一

今日交易

今天没有经济数据。希腊议会通过了实行紧缩政策的法案。股市上涨。今年的牛市还在继续。

交易了一次$TNA和一次$TZA。都没有成功。$TNA是没有计算好价格区间。$TZA是方向错误。

2012年2月12日星期日

交易计划

上周牛市出现了个停顿,多头没有能够继续推动股市上涨,空头也无法控制市场。下面如何发展还要看基本经济形势的发展。就当前经济形势而言,近两个月的牛市有些过了,需要一个调整。

上周买入黄金的操作不好。看不清方向就不要出手。继续练习观察当日价格方向的技术。

2012年2月11日星期六

上班路上,路杀(roadkill)

昨天早晨在上班路上压死了一只灰色的松鼠。是我遭遇的第一次路杀事件(roadkill)。当时转过一个弯,突然发现一只松鼠出现车前,已经来不及做出任何反应,只能祝愿松鼠幸运了。不幸的是右后轮送松鼠上天堂了。真是很抱歉。以前躲过几次过马路的小鹿、松鼠、树熊、花栗鼠。还有些大雁,明明会飞,还要溜达着过马路。

人类改变了环境,野生动物(还幸存的)很难适应。我的一位同事看到过一只树熊或野狼在过马路时会过一个车道停下来,观察一下再过下一个。大多数动物是没有这个本领。

2012年2月10日星期五

今日交易

今天全天熊市,DOW下跌89点,是今年降幅最大的一天。2012年到现在还是牛气十足。希腊债务问题又出现波折,中国贸易数据不好(有春节的因素)导致了今天的熊市。黄金、原油都下跌。

$LNKD昨日季报不错,今天上涨18%。

今天跳低开,幅度较大,多头阻止了进一步下跌,但没有能力逆转,价格波动很小。交易了一次$TNA,错过了当日低点,在很小的窗口进行了一次尝试,没有赔钱。

2012年2月9日星期四

今日交易

市场还没有找到方向,在小区间内震荡。出现分化,大企业上涨,小企业下跌。黄金先涨后跌。

交易了一次$TNA,虽然今天下跌,由于很早就达到了当日最低点,后来是在震荡中上升,比较好操作。利润略低于一个点。操作$TZA利润会高些,但窗口很小,形势不明朗。$FMCN有非常好的做多的机会,没有抓住。看不清黄金的近期方向,如果维持在当前水平,可以获得一定的稳定收入,每周0.5%。

2012年2月8日星期三

今日交易

今天股市几度受希腊谈判的影响。最终还是多头战胜了空头。黄金回落近一个点。

$GPRN市后发布第一次季报,下跌15%。

判断多头会赢,交易了一次$TNA,买入时机不好,止损退出。应该再继续做多一次。建立了$GLD多头,空卖其二月看涨期权。

YMCA出现严重事故

YMCA出现严重事故

二月八日晚七点半左右,在YMCA的二楼健身房出现严重运动伤害事故。有一位身体健壮的猛男在练习立定跳高时不慎失去平衡,后脑着地,受到严重撞击。他一度身体抽搐。事故发生就在一瞬间,前一秒钟我还和他打了个招呼,我一低头就听见一声巨响,一抬头发现他躺在地上无法移动。

给大家的教训是锻炼一定要做好准备,不做没有把握的项目。我和猛男经常见面,我们经常在等待锻炼腹肌的器械,说过几次话。他几乎全部是练力量,没有见过他练习柔韧,也没有看见他跑步。立定跳高看上去简单,但是如果柔韧性不好,很容易出现拉伤,导致身体失去平衡。

另外YMCA要求会员随身携带会员卡,还是挺有道理的。在今天的事故后可以通过会员卡的信息通知其家人。

出现这种事大家都挺揪心的。他被固定在担架后恢复了知觉,试图举手调整头部的固定支架。希望他能够早日康复。

2012年2月7日星期二

今日交易

本周没有重要经济数据。市场还在寻找方向。希腊问题一拖再拖。其实债务问题最严重的是美国,现在被市场直接忽视了。市场经历了短暂的熊市后转为牛市。美联储主席的谈话让黄金大涨。

感觉市场多头力量还很强,在低点买入$TNA,卖出的有些早,利润不足一个点。可以做到两个点。

超级碗(Super Bowl),麦当娜(Madonna),刘晓庆

没有观看上周日的超级碗决赛,不是很喜欢。就像是西餐,偶尔吃点还好,本质上还是不太对路。听说53岁麦当娜出现在半场休息的演出,在Youtube上观看了一下影像。感觉闹哄哄的,唱得也不好。麦当娜大姐年轻时看上去很老,老了看上去很年轻。这点和刘晓庆差不多。

麦当娜比起现在的Lady Gaga,Pink等像个纯洁的婴儿了。社会在变化。很久没有听新的歌曲了。平常听最多的都是几十年的老歌了,Hotel California, Wish You Were Here。

45 Years In Wall Street

William D Gann


CHAPTER I



CHAPTER II RULES FOR TRADING IN STOCKS


The Time change is more important than reversal in price.

Rule 9. Buy on Higher Tops and Bottoms

Buy when the market is making higher Tops and higher Bottoms which shows that the main trend is up. Sell when the market is making lower Tops and lower Bottoms which indicates the main trend is down.

Rule 10. Change in Trend in Bull Market

A change in trend often occurs just before or just after holidays.

Rule 11. Safest Buying and Selling Points

It is always safest to buy stocks after a definite Change in Trend has been established.

Rule 12. Price Gains in Fast Moves

When the Movement on Average or individual stocks is 2 points or more per day, it is far above normal and does not last very long.

TWENTY-FOUR NEVER-FAILING RULES

1. Amount of capital to use: Divide your capital into 10 equal parts and never risk more than one-tenth of your capital on any one trade.
2. Use stop loss orders. Always protect a trade when you make it with a stop loss order 3 to 5 points away.
3. Never overtrade. This would be violating your capital rule.
4. Never let a profit run into a loss. After you once have a profit of 3 points or more, raise your stop loss order so that you will have no loss of capital.
5. Do not buck the trend. Never buy or sell if you are not sure of the trend according to your charts.
6. When in doubt, get out, and don't get in when in doubt.
7. Trade only in active stocks. Keep our of slow, dead ones.
8. Equal distribution of risk. Trade in 4 or 5 stocks, if possible. Avoid tying up all your capital in any one stock.
9. Never limit your orders or fix a buying or selling price. Trade at the market.
10. Don't close your orders without a good reason. Follow up with a stop loss order to protect your profits.
11. Accumulate a surplus. After you have made a series of successful trades, put some money into surplus account to be used only in emergency or in times of panic.
12. Never buy just to get a dividend.
13. Never average a loss. This is one of the worst mistakes a trader can make.
14. Never get our of the market just because you have lost patience or get into the market because you are anxious from waiting.
15. Avoid taking small profits and big losses.
16. Never cancel a stop loss order after you have placed it at the time you make a trade.
17. Avoid getting in and out of the market too often.
18. Be just as willing to sell short as you are to buy. Let your object be to keep with the trend and make money.
19. Never buy just because the price of a stock is low or sell short just because the price is high.
20. Be careful about pyramiding at the wrong time. Wait until the stock is very active and has crossed Resistance Levels before buying more and until it has broken out of the zone of distribution before selling more.
21. Select the stocks with small volume of shares outstanding to pyramiding one the buying side and the ones with the largest volume of stock outstanding to sell short.
22. Never hedge. If you are long of one stock and it starts to go down, do not sell another stock short to hedge it. Get out at the market; take your loss and wait for another opportunity.
23. Never change your position in the market without a good reason. When you make a trade, let it be for some good reason or according to some definite plan; then do not get out without a definite indication of a change in trend.
24. Avoid increasing your trading after a long period of success or a period a profitable trades.

My rules -

1. Do not hold triple leveraged ETFs (FAS/FAZ, TNA/TZA) overnight, unless there is enough profit margin, 2%.


SAFETY OF CAPITAL

You can always find new opportunities to make profits, so long as you have capital to operate with. Taking heavy risks in the beginning endangers your capital and impairs your judgment.

STOP LOSS ORDERS

An investor or trader will place a stop loss order and one time out of ten the stop will be caught at the exact top or bottom. After this he always remembers that and says, "If I place a stop loss order, they will just go down and catch it, or just go up and catch it and then the market will go the order way." So he does not use the stop loss order the next time. The trader forgets that nine times out of ten the stop loss order was right and would have prevented big losses by getting him out at a time when the market was going against him. The one time that the stop loss order gets you out wrong it makes up for it in the next nine times that it gets you out right. So don't fail to use a stop loss order.

CHANGING YOUR MIND

A wise man changes his mind; a fool never.

OVERTRADING

History repeats because of the weakness of human nature.









HOW TO ANSWER A MARGIN CALL

When you make a trade and put up the required margin at the time and later the stock goes against you and the broker calls for more margin, the thing to do in most cases is not to put up more margin, but sell out at the market or buy in in case you are short.

Nine times out of ten after a customer puts up margin the first time, he will hold on until there is a second margin call and a third and put up as long as he has money to put up and lose all of his capital on one trade. If the broker has to call you for margin, there is something wrong, and the best thing to do is to get out.

JOINT ACCOUNT

It is hard for one mind to work on the stock market and keep right, but it is much harder for two to agree and work in the market.

It is a bad rule for a man and his wife to have a joint account together. The action of getting in and out of the market should be up to one man, who should learn to act and act quickly and not be influenced by a partner in a speculative deal.

WHAT TRADERS DON'T WANT TO KNOW

The average trader does not want to hear a painful truth. They want something in accordance with what they hope for. When they buy a stock they believe all the news, rumors, views and lies that are bullish, but just let some report come out that is bad or let someone tell him something unfavorable about the stock he has bought and he refuses to believe it.

Real inside truth about losses in Wall Street is seldom ever told. Traders, big and little, always talk about their profits and brag about their successful trades, but keep quiet about their losses.

The new lamb should know that failing to place a stop loss order and overtrading have been the cause of over 90 per cent of the failures in Wall Street.

HUMAN ELEMENT THE GREATEST WEAKNESS

The investor and trader must work out his own salvation and blame himself and no one else for his losses, for unless he does, he will never be able to correct his weaknesses.

Always remember that it is your mistake that causes losses and not the action of the market or the manipulators.


CHAPTER III HOW TO SELECT INDEPENDENT MOVERS




Buying One Stock and Selling Another Short

There are many times when you can sell one stock short at a High Level and buy another stock that is selling at a Low Level and the prices of these stocks will come together and you will make profits on both.


CHAPTER IV PERCENTAGE OF HIGH AND LOW PRICES

One of the greatest discoveries I ever made was how to figure the percentage of high and low prices on the averages and individual stocks. The percentage of extreme high and low levels indicate future resistance levels.

The most important resistance level is 50% of any high or low price.


Second in importance is 100% on the lowest selling price on the average or individual stocks.

Third in importance is 25% of the Lowest price or Highest price.

Fourth in importance is 12.5% of the extreme Low or extreme High price.

Fifth in importance is 6.25% of the Highest price, but this is only to be used when the average or individual stocks are selling at very high levels.

Sixth in importance is 33.3% and 66.7%. These percentages should be calculated and watched for resistance next after 25% and after 50%.

Stocks Selling Below 50 Per Cent Level

It is very important when a stock breaks 50% or one-half between the extreme high and extreme low level. When it does not get support and holds at this level, it is in a very weak position and indicates a decline to 75% down or more between extreme high and extreme low.

Do not buy stocks after they get below this level until you see an indication of support based on all of the rules.

MARKET ACTION PROVES THE RULES


CHAPTER V TIME PERIODS OF SHORT DURATION CORRECT PRICES


Remember, when you do make a mistake or see that you are wrong, the way to correct it is to get out of the market immediately, or best of all when you make trade, place a Stop Loss Order for the protection of your capital.


CHAPTER VI TIME PERIODS FOR IMPORTANT SWINGS ON THE AVERAGES



CHAPTER VII DOW JONES 30 INDUSTRIAL AVERAGES 3-DAY CHART MOVES
















2012年2月6日星期一

今日交易

市场在大涨一周后有个回调。另外希腊债务谈判还没有结果,期限已经快到了。市场在等待结果。各指数略降。

减少了$FMCN的空头头寸。今年的牛市很强劲,但同时基础也很脆弱,有些风吹草动方向就转变了。

交易计划

保持现有低仓位。观察原油、黄金。黄金可能会调整一阵子。

2012年2月3日星期五

健身总结

开始有规律健身一个月了。体重增长了3公斤,达到历史最高。这也正常,先长肌肉,后减脂肪。跑步由10分钟1600米增加到1900米。下周开始跑步12分钟,争取到3000米。游泳可以蛙泳1000米。下一步增加自由泳1000米。

今日交易

美国一月份就业数据很好,失业率达到3年最低。市场大涨,牛市得以继续。期盼中QE3变得不可能了,因此黄金大跌。各主要指数上涨约1.5%。

结束了黄金多头,略有利润。平仓了$TZA,损失20%,是近来最大一个损失。对市场方向判断错误是主要原因。现金仓位较高,不去追高了。

2012年2月2日星期四

今日交易

市场有些停滞,在等待方向。美国失业数据较好,没有推动牛市。$FB即将上市推动了网络、社交股大涨。市场在昨天牛市后又出现分化。黄金继续上涨。原油下跌,六周最低。

建立了$TD的空头。

2012年2月1日星期三

今日交易

德国,中国的PMI较预期的要好,而美国就业,ISM不如预期。在牛市氛围下利多的消息推动了上涨。虽然涨幅一般,但多头控制了方向。黄金略涨。

$FB终于要上市了。

今天做空$FMCN不成功。