market comment November 2014

"With a small gain of 1.10% SP Alpha ended November.
How exciting was the October - November was so boring.
The S & P 500 climbed the whole month in small steps without any
Volatility.
Our early November initiated  long-term trade component #1 can benefit from it. Component # 2 could earlier this month realize a nice profit and could the  Losses of October catch up completely. The whole system moves
so again near its all-time highs.
We expect the remaining weeks of 2014, no major Fluctuations, experience has shown that the Christmas season is the Stock markets usually quite bullish.

market comment September 2014

With a small profit of 0.10% SP Alpha ended this September. After the S&P mid-September once again a new all-time high reached, (the system component # 3 traded this with a small benefit) the market began slowly to erode.
System component # 3 bought as a result of these again four new positions. These position was at the end of this Report although in a loss, but they are currently recovered and is just before its closing. For the coming autumn and winter months we expect a little
more clarity for the next longer-term movements and be quite sure of it with our Strategy investment style.

market comment August 2014

With a small profit of 0,80% SP Alpha finished August.
In history, the late summer months are a difficult time period  with large price declines. SP Alpha systems trading restrained in this time. In early August the trades from July were closed and since then no new opened. No later than October we expect then a little movement in the Portfolio.

market comment July 2014

With a loss of 3.60% SP Alpha had in July after five months
recorded profits again a loss.
The steady upward trend of the S & P500 was a sensitive damper
due to the intensification of political risks in Iraq and in particular
in the Ukraine.
Responsible for the loss were subsystem # 2 and subsystem # 3.
However, both were early August in a recovery with significantly
reduced loss left the market. The S & P500 is now more
far away from our "Short Mode", the German DAX has it sind 8/8/14 already
achieved.

today...

...subsystem#2 shall closed probably with a nice gain. SP Alpha ist now at All Time high!

market comment June 2014

With a small profit of 0,90% SP Alpha was in June in the 5th month in a row with positive end result.
The steady upward trend of the S & P500 continued in the past month. Interrupted by two minor setbacks, the first used subsystem # 3 for a small profit, the market closed again at All Time High.
At the end of the month Subsystem # 2 also made a small contribution to the monthly gain.

closing Position

today at market open we close our three scaled-in positions from subsystem#3

today 2nd entry from subsystem #3

today at market open we buy the 2nd position of subsystem#3 (last friday we bought the 1st)

exit systempart #2

today we close our mid-term Long Position from systempart #2, probably with a nice win...

market comment May 2014

With a profit of 3.17% (Managed account)  in May SP Alpha could now already the fourth month in positive territory.
From mid-May a steady upward movement began in the S&P500 which could be used consistently from 2 of the 3 subsystems: System Component # 3 bought mid-month near the lows in 3 Steps and left the market again near the old highs. System Component # 2 used the last report mentioned positive trend in the overall market and the upward movement led to the end of the month towards the S&P500 to new all-time highs.

today...

... we made the second entry from systempart#3 @market open

new Entry...

...today we buy @ open the first part of the position from systempart#3

market comment April 2014

With a Profit of 4,09 % (real Acc) respectively 4,00% (C2)SP Alpha had in April the third month in a row a positive result..

The last month was marked by a downward movement in the S&P500 at the beginning of the month and a move up to the end of the month. The S&P500 is now since 10 weeks in a trading range but the medium-term trend is still positive.

Near the lows at the middle of the month our system component #3 had opend some positions  and exited these later with profit. The long term trend following system component left the market with a significant profit on April 2.

new entry systempart #3

according to the well-timed exits of all system parts last week we will make a new entry today:  systempart # 3, Entry #1

market comment March 14

With a very handsome profit of 5,10% (C2) respectively 3,84% (real Acc.) finished SP Alpha March 2014.
The past month in the S & P500 was characterized by an unspectacular sideways trend. The respective low points could our system component #3 good use to scale-in positions. These positions could we close each near the highs with a profit.
The long-term trend-following system component could also benefited of the movement to the AllTime - Highs and leave the market at the beginning of April with a significant profit.

exit systempart #3 and systempart #1

yesterday we closed our scale-in position from last week (systempart#3) with a nice profit,
today we close @ Market open our longTerm Trend Position (Systempart#1)also with a profit.

for the next weeks and month we expect the " not so ideal time to be long in Stocks"
we will see what happens...

new Entrys today

today we habe two new Entrys:
System #2 enter long @ market open
System #3 PositionPart#1 enter long @market open

market comment February 14

With a small win of 0,61% (real account) and 0,1% (C2) finished SP Alpha February 2014. In early February, the S&P 500 took its long-term upward trend again and rose to new all-time highs.
Unfortunately, our position of system component # 2 from late january was closed near this short term low and could not benefit from the recovery - bad luck.
These things happen from time to time and give no us cause for concern. On the other hand is
the long-term trend-following system component is still in the market and benefited from the return to the highs.

market comment January 14

"With a loss of 12.10% SP Alpha launched in January in the new year 2014.

The upward trend in the S & P500 stopped abruptly in mid of this month, just before the most highly weighted subsystem went into the market. The since early November invested  trend-following system component is returned in this environment close to their entry price. The pullback component of the system is also currently fully invested and will leave with a pullback up the market again. The overall system is currently not far from his "short mode" in which it can then also set on falling prices.

Equities suffering hard last two days....

...and our systempart#2 had a very bad Entry Timing last Thursday.
So this is systemtrading, sometimes hard. It could be the first major Drawdown here on C2. But we always knew that this time will come, we stay cool!
Systempart#6 begins to scale in today, hopefully we can ride the pullback to north.

to C2 Costumers:

To better distinguish the trades of individual system parts from each other, we will use the following differentiation in the future:

System Part # 1: use SDS (Short) or SSO (Long)
System Part # 2: use ES Future & SPY (long)
System Part # 3: use SPY (for Long & Short)
System Part # 4-6 remains unchanged (use VXX and XIV).

Tomorrow we will close out the position in System Part 1 and simultaneously open a new position in the SSO. This trade you don`t do, he is merely for a better overview for the future!

We will also use Stops in the future. This Stops are far away and has no influence on the performance!
This is not a rule change - only a change in trading the rules!!

Email us if you have any further questions!

SP Alpha now available at United Signals

We are glad to announce that SP Alpha is now available at United-Signals.com.
For more information:

https://www.united-signals.com/strategies#/strategies

exit systempart#3

today we close the two scale-in Positions from systempart#3 at market open.

new Year - new Trades

We wish all readers of this Blog a happy and prosperous new year!

Yesterday we close the trade form system #2 with a small profit (about 5 points in S&P500).
At the moment we have  part#1(entry Monday) and part#2(entry Yesterday) form system #3 at market.
( and since Nov13, system#1)