Monday, February 25, 2008

02/25/2008

G/L
10d,Theta
10d,65%VAR
10d,95%VAR
10d,99%VAR
2.5%
2.1%
2.8%
14.2%
32.0%

Feb 2008 Result

Feb 2008 Return: 1.1%

A modest 1.1% gain.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

01/22/2008

G/L
10d,Theta
10d,65%VAR
10d,95%VAR
10d,99%VAR

-0.6%
6.2%
10.4%
49.5%
99.2%
Did the market panic this morning? Or does it indicate further drops ahead?

Jan 2008 Result

Jan 2008 Return: -7.4%

SPX dropped approx 50 pts during Thursday and Friday. This is not a pretty
ending for January tradings.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

01/17/2008

G/L
10d,Theta
10d,65%VAR
10d,95%VAR
10d,99%VAR


-2.0%
4.6%
2.4%
30.3%
77.6%

What a market!!

SPX dropped about 150 pts from mid-December.

RUT dropped more than 100 pts.

Treasure bond keeps making new highs...

:-O

Monday, January 14, 2008

01/14/2008

G/L
10d,Theta
10d,65%VAR
10d,95%VAR
10d,99%VAR
1.2%
1.0%
0.1%
3.6%
11.0%

Monday, January 7, 2008

01/07/2008

G/L
10d,Theta
10d,65%VAR
10d,95%VAR
10d,99%VAR
-0.8%
2.7%
0.0%
32.0%
88.5%

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

01/02/2008

G/L
10d,Theta
10d,65%VAR
10d,95%VAR
10d,99%VAR
-0.1%
2.8%
1.8%
25.5%
76.2%

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

12/26/2007

G/L
10d,Theta
10d,65%VAR
10d,95%VAR
10d,99%VAR
1.2%
1.8%
0.2%
10.2%
37.7%

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

2007 Review

Here is a review of 2007 trading results:

Jan 2007: 5.6%
Feb 2007: 2.4%
Mar 2007: -15.0%
Apr 2007: 9.8%
May 2007: 5.8%
Jun 2007: 4.9%
Jul 2007: 10.0%
Aug 2007: -35.0%
Sep 2007: 12.0%
Oct 2007: 1.8%
Nov 2007: 9.4%
Dec 2007: 13.4%

Simple Average Total: 25.1%
Exponential Average Total: 13.3%


The index gambling trading started as usual this year. However,
the market soon had a very large single day drop on 2/28. This has
directly caused the 15% loss in March. It took two months (Apr & May)
to get back what had been lost in one (March).

Trading during the next two months (Jun & Jul) were relatively quiet. But the
market turned extremely volatile in August when the sub-prime mortgage
explosion rattled the whole market. As the credit market liquidity
disappeared, it has eventually triggered the stock market panic on 08/16.
August trading ended with an unprecedented loss of 35%.

Although the stock market zigzagged during the rest of the year, the
trading was relatively stable, largely due to very tight risk control. The
year of 2007 eventually ended with a profit.