Yng has a nice habit of posting his monthly stats up and I think it would really help my trading If I could pinpoint costs, bad habits, and highlight good trades. So... I will do my best to recount what the months of August/September were like in terms of trading my account.
August was my breakout month. It wasn't very eventful.
August:
Starting account value: $4900
Ending account value: $4855.61
Total loss: $44.39
Total loss (%): 0.9%
Total commissions paid: $30.03
Total # trades: 2
Total # winning trades: 1
Total # losing trades: 1
Positions held long: 0
Positions held short:2
Largest winning trade: $1
Largest losing trade: $-59.40
Total # trading days: 1
# green days on account: 0
# red days on account: 1
September:
Starting account value: $4855.61
Ending account value: $6147.64
Total gain: $1292.03
Total gain (%): 26.6%
Average daily return: 0.887%
Average daily P/L: $43.07
Total commissions paid: $376.17
YTD commissions paid:$406.20
Largest winning trade: $992.40
Largest losing trade: $-146.88
I hit some lows during September that you don't see in the above statistics. It was tough. At its lowest point I was down nearly $300 to $4629.94. My trades on RAMR and SIL helped bring me well out of the red.
