Trendfinder Trading Systems

It was a relatively quiet stock market this month. There were a couple of intraday trades early in the month, and a handful of swing trades. The biggest winner was the Index Trader V portfolio.

The market appears to be shrugging off any impeachment or trade war concerns. However, this might be a mirage. The huge influx of money from the FOMC over the last several months during “not QE” may be the primary reason the stock market has been heading upward. This influx may end next month, and if does, we will find out what impact it truly has had.

It was a quiet month in the stock market and for these trading systems. This works well in combination with the being long equities. The stock market continued climbing to all time highs. When the market next declines, volatility will likely pick up, providing opportunity for these trading systems to profit.

It was a tough month for these systems. Only one ended with any profit.

This month the intraday systems ended relatively flat, and the swing systems ended with a loss.

It’s already the end of September??? That month sure flew by for me. Overall, the stock market didn’t move that much, especially considering all of the political and macro events that occurred. I’m seeing a mixture of bullish and bearish indications going forward. Looks like the market will continue to chop around until there is a clear winner between the bulls and bears. If nothing major happens, the bulls will likely be the winner.

The day trading systems did very well this month. The swing systems had 1 winning trade and 4 losing ones. For all but one portfolio, the day trading profits made up for the swing losses.

MeanSwing3 EMD was the big winner this month. Overall the portfolios did very well. The intraday systems had a few trades at the beginning of the month then went dormant as volatility was low. We shall see if volatility is returning now and there is more trading activity in August.

The majority of trades were winners this month, and every portfolio had a nice profit.

This was one of the worst months for these trading systems. The first few days of the month were great. We had two systems long with nice open profits, and then Trump announced he was raising tariffs over the weekend. After that the unpredictability of the market made for very tough trading conditions.

It was a pretty quiet trading month since the stock market had very little movement.

Quiet periods like this don’t last forever. We shall see when something can rock this quietly bullish market.

The standout system this month was SimpleSwing2 ES. Overall, each portfolio had a net profit this month.

Not much to say about the market right now other than not much is happening. The Fed is now neutral to slightly accommodative. Large cap indexes are over their 200 day moving average, and small cap indexes are below. I could make some comments/predictions about this, but it would be waste of time. I think it’s better to let the market do what it does and utilize trading systems to profit from the moves.