Recent Posts Tagged With 'open positions'

• Corn position

  Posted on Saturday June 21st, 2008 at 18:10 in corn ethanol, open positions, spread betting, corn futures, spread betting blog, general commodities, corn speculation, corn spread trade, soft commodities spread betting, spread betting corn, spread trading commodities

  Sell order was activated on Friday at the asked for price, £64 in profit (64 points). Early in session tested over 750, but poor finish does not bode well for Monday (for the long side). Looking at the chart - break of trendline and on monthly, th...

• Trading update

  Posted on Tuesday February 26th, 2008 at 16:07 in open positions

  Sold 2/5 of NY coffee - at entry price - no profit/loss as market is closed lower at 159.95, still £3pp open as ‘core position’ with a open loss of £4.50 (ie will ride through a correction as a barometer for when to add to position). Bo...

• Commoditize your portfolio…

  Posted on Friday February 8th, 2008 at 15:31 in coffee, sugar, commodities, open positions, spread betting, coffee bull market, spread bet northern rock, spread betting blog

  From now on, due to time pressures I will have to post only on Friday a review of the week, and Sunday for a general Big Picture, “Kitchen Cabinet” overview. Update on Coffee, well, letting profits run on this one, as it didn’t want...

• Coffee update

  Posted on Thursday February 7th, 2008 at 13:33 in coffee, commodities trading, corn ethanol, open positions, general commodities, coffee speculating, corn speculation, corn trader, futures trading with spread betting, spread better

  Coffee trade still on, set tight stops but market just continued higher today - slight correction from yesterday, set stops at 2156 (1), 2148 (1), 2146 (1) and 2120 (2) so only the 2156 got hit before price took off again and setttled at 2181. So st...

• Coffee brewing up

  Posted on Wednesday February 6th, 2008 at 13:55 in market wizards, open positions, spread betting coach, spread betting novice, spread betting profit

  My positions in coffee are showing a combined profit of £947 as of today (Robusta £607 and Arabica £340). I am feeling that it has been a good run up recently, since December and have no reason to sell, but for some reason am feeling a bit edgy a...

• Cafe’ espresso

  Posted on Monday February 4th, 2008 at 17:21 in open positions

  Breakout day for near month coffee (March)… High of the day was 144.00, and no time to set buy stops, so will double up position tommorow as price pulled back to 142.50. Robusta also showing strength, other positions, Sugar closed out 2/5 posit...

• Trading update…

  Posted on Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 16:58 in commodities, futures trading, open positions, commodity trading, coffee trading, commodities investing, silver trading, spread betting uk

  Friday saw some changes to my trades, I have been recently stepping back from daily trading and just managing, or handling my positions as this suits the approach I am confortable with. The numbers are fairly modest but at the moment it is time for ...

• Positions update

  Posted on Thursday January 31st, 2008 at 16:13 in open positions, spread betting blog, spread trading blog, trading thoughts

  Here is my open position as of yesterday, Coffee has gained today and made a high at 2128 before falling back some, as have silver, buying more at 1710. Long DAX30 since closed for a loss of about £75 and also stopped out of £15/point NR at 106. ...