Seperate Investment Account

So I have decided that I will open up a serperate IRA account for investment ideas. As this is the only way I will mentally be able to hold investments. I can not convince my brain to do it in my IB account. It is registered as some conflict of interest in my brain. And the reason I want to do it in a IRA account is because this is just another layer of comfort for my brain. It does not mean however that I will not actively manage the positions. But I will be comfortable with tieing up capital that I do not need to access for a while. The goal would be to put $4,000 a year in this account. I currently have a 401k with work and I max that out and mostly use an S&P index fund and money market. For example in Febuary when we hit 1040 on the S&P 500 I moved everything from money market to S&P and have since made a quick 10.5% in my 401k. As I think we will move higher, I have set the sell zone of 1175-1200. I think it is possible for the market to make it to 1200 this year. But at the same time I still think that long term money should be managed as well and you should still have stops. 1130 on S&P is my signal to sell and move back to money market until I see opportunity again.

Comments

WOW! I think that sums it up

Many of you have been reading this blog may have noticed that my blogging frequency has increased over the past few weeks as I got short the market. As you can imagine I am down money since getting short the market, this is the time when most people pull away from posting. But my goal is to stay active and involved and show you that trading is not always rainbows and butterflies. It is times like these that the things I have been sharing over the past couple of weeks are so important. You need to trade small relative to your account. I have a decent short position in the market and my portfolios are set up to make some awesome returns if we finally turn lower. But something I would like to point out is that my account is 70% Cash. I learned a long time ago how important it is to live by the rules you preach. Because of my discipline I am able to continue to hold my positions, I have time and capital on my side. I can't stress enough how important it is not to get to big....

Stay Small, Stay Out of Trouble

To expand on my post from yesterday about patience. I want to talk about a very important element that allows patience in a position, and that is staying small. If you trade too big RELATIVE to your personal account size, you are likely to be forced to exit the trade before the trade works in your favor. Many trades myself included have all experienced the pains of trading a position way too large given our account size. There is this predisposition out there that the only way you are going to make money in the financial markets is if you are trading 10 lots of options and 1000 shares of stock at the time. This is not the case, and if this is your mentality you will likely ensure yourself trouble. We have all read the stories of traders blowing up their account. I personally think a good rule of thumb is to not risk more than 5% of your account value on any one position. Good Luck Trading! In The Money Trades And 1 favor that we ask: If you like the hard work w...

more good news from FXStreet : Tom Fitzpatrick, senior technical analyst at Citibank in New York. Monday, July 15, 2002 "Parity is a psychological, not a technical level...and whether we pause around parity or not, we are likely to see significant further dollar losses...Our initial target is $1.03 to $1.0450. If that level is taken out, it actually casts a question mark against the whole of the dollar's rally of the last seven years, and could open up a full-blown bear market for the dollar." Julian Jessop, chief European economist at Standard Chartered Bank. Monday, July 15, 2002 "The dollar is under pressure from everything from economic problems to asset reallocation away from the U.S. and corporate accounting problems. It's difficult to see any positive factor for the dollar at the moment. The root of the problem is the U.S. current account deficit. If the U.S. doesn't have to attract an enormous amount of foreign capital, people wouldn't have to wor...

Forex Is Crazy

Search This Blog