Meta-Trader - Goodbye to February

Welcome back Meta-Traders.

It was a week to forget on the homefront. I missed Traders Expo in NYC on Monday due to a snow storm. Everyone was irritable around the house and about the only good news is that February will soon be behind us. As of now, the weather is no longer a factor and instead has just left behind a pile of dirty snow. So that's this week's theme photo - dirty snow.

On the global events front, things got ugly in Libya. Quaddafi vowed not to leave without a fight and instead, has vowed to fight to the death. As of now, the country appears to be a state of divided military rule with little chance of a peaceful settlement, let alone a stable democracy emerging. This un-nerved the energy markets and sent oil prices soaring and taking gasoline up as well.

The stock market hated all this and sold off sharply. Tech stocks also took a beating slicing about 4% off my portfolio in a 2-day period. Things came back somewhat by the end of the week and gained back about 1.5% of the loss. Netflix (NFLX) was particularly damaging, spiking to a high of nearly $248 then selling off back to the $210 area and finally settling at about $212. It makes the case that I need to pay more attention to topping formations and take profits after parabolic moves to the upside.

On the Forex side, things continued to move ahead nicely. Atinalla #1 Live had a nice week picking just over 3% for the week and this account is now up just over 30% year to date!

Atinalla #3 had an even better week picking up about 3.5% on the week and is now up about 11.86% on year to date basis.

Megadroid Live picked up 1.2% or about 9 pips.

FX-Regression Live had a decent week, but went out with a 40-pip open loss with a buy in USD/CAD. Overall, this account appears to be flip-flopping around even and this is typical for this system.

Atinalla FE Live had a losing trade and shed about 2% or -81 pips on the week.

Sapaq Demo had a pretty good week and has come back from a maximum loss of about 4% earlier in the month and has now come up above even.

My new live account Atinalla Full Portfolio Live had a nice week picking up 3.5% for the week, but went out with an open loss roughly equal to his gain. Even so, the other instances running over at Asirikuy are all doing well and i'm hopeful we will see future gains.

Finally, Atinalla #4 SM Live had a pretty good week and came back from some drawdown and is struggling to get back to even.

The only change this week is that i'm going start running Sunday gap trader DCT in my Megadroid Live account with minimal risk. Hopefully i'll get some time on Sunday to start up a new demo with one of the genetic portfolios setup on Asirikuy.

That's all, have a great week!