It turns out Tech Trader would have bought these months ago if we just had the stocks in the scan list.  Unfortunately, Tech Trader is only looking at top 1000 stocks right now; need to have much more capital before we can think of increasing the universe, else the size of each position will be too small.  Just something to keep in mind for the future as far as capacity for Tech Trader is concerned.

Great example on GRUB of Tech Trader's option pricing algo at work.  Normally I would have just crossed the spread, but it now knows to aim for $.50 on a spread of $.45x$.70 based on how other contracts are priced.
Edit: Not trading this specific strike/contract.  Just wanted to show how TT would price a wide spread.  Sorry for the confusion.


In other news, XLP has exited around $50.20 for about a 1.2% total gain (QQQ had 2.4%, XLK 2.1%, and XLF 2%).  Still holding EEM which is taking a hit, but it's small compared to what the others made already.  Slow day overall.

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Just finished adding the ability for Tech Trader to automatically figure out fair value for options based on intrinsic/extrinsic of other contracts.  I'll never get ripped off by a 40% spread again! Bahaha

Tech Trader almost closed its QQQ and XLK longs from yesterday this morning, but that pullback in the first hour was enough to give it more runway.  Looks like the pattern has been selling from Europe market hours and then relief after.

Tech Trader's going for it here on this China yuan devaluation sell off.  Intraday bottoms on both XLF @ $24.7 and EEM @ $35.3.  Looking for another bounce here in the next few days.

Tech Trader crushed it with XLV and IBB after intraday bottom signals in each last week.

Tough morning for the IBB long yesterday, but that's why there was only one trade as opposed to a handful.  Tech Trader following up on that trade with another intraday bottom in XLV now, essentially the equivalent of a trader averaging down.

There goes TLT above $122 after yesterday's intraday bottom signal.

Pretty exciting.  After about 2 week's slumber, exposures are starting to pick up again.  TLT just got an intraday bottom at about $121.4.  Names like FOLD and SPR are lining up to be bought on breakout continuation to the long side.   Update: Lost the signal for FOLD at close and didn't trade it; looks like it's tough to sustain a breakout for individual names at least.

Tech Trader up .5% today with the market flat.  Longs are up about .3%, while shorts, which only are 30% exposure to the 75% long, are up.9%.


Biggest contributer today is shorting CRUS, which is adding 5.4% P&L.  It's impressive that Tech Trader held it short for as long as it did given it's huge run up over the last few weeks.


New positions potentially being added today are long EL and short GRMN, both which look pretty good chart-wise.  EL is forming an ascending triangle breakout while GRMN is just continuing a gradual melt downwards.

Tech Trader closing out the week flat and month up 3% when S&P has been whipsawing to be up 2%.  For the year, the automated strategies in Tech Trader are up 20% and S&P up only a couple percent with much more volatility.  Bottom 30Min etf positions are closed out now.  Exposures are still very neutral at 72% long vs 29% short.  Sector exposures also crushed way down on the lower chart.  Need to get Tech Trader automatically posting its own updates unless I want to become its coffee boy lol



SPY, for comparison (much more volatile and up only a few percent for the year):

Tech Trader again up while the market is down.  Current portfolio is up .2% despite remaining intraday bottom signal positions in QQQ and SPY being down.  Market is down over half a percent (SPY .5% and IWM .7%).  Much of Tech Trader's performance today is again owed to being short names like ARRY, FCAU and HLT.

All three intraday bottom signals from the last couple days are working now.  All the more fun when the automation is actually trading calls and not just equity like the model portfolio is showing.


Individual names are doing ok today.  Took a big hit from shorting CRUS (down 17%) but other names like GRPO (+4%), HLT (+2%), etc are doing well enough to neutralize it.  Overall Tech Trader just killing it year-to-date, which really highlights how unique and "human" Tech Trader's trading style is given that a recent article just made the point that humans are beating most other computer-driven funds this year.


Also interesting to note that consumer is starting to take a lead from Healthcare for dominant driver of performance.  Again, none of this is coded.  Tech Trader just looks at individual names like a trader, but the macro themes arise on their own.