posts/live-trading-logbook.ipynb

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    "After some weeks of silence, he he... I come back with a short post about *live* trading in the **forex** market.\n",
    "As you probably know [if not, you are knowing it right now ;-)], one of my interests is the *analysis*, *modeling* and *forecasting* of financial time series. To make it short, I have developed some statistical models to forecast the dynamic of selected portfolios.\n",
    "Currently, I am trading equities and other more complex financial derivatives. But my models are also suitable to apply to other markets, ie. the **foreign exchange** market (yes... **forex**). So, I made a quick research on some interesting **forex** pairs and then I started a little account to perform some *live trades* accordingly to these models.\n",
    "And now, I pretend to *log* the trades from this little account in a subset of post on my blog, a sort of public *live trading logbook*.\n",
    "\n",
    "OK, we can start the logging right now! I opened two **short** positions some days ago:\n",
    "<!-- TEASER_END -->\n",
    "\n",
    "<table>\n",
    "<tr>\n",
    "<th>Ticket</th>               \n",
    "<th>Date</th>\n",
    "<th>Transaction</th>\n",
    "<th>Currency Pair</th>\n",
    "<th>Price</th>\n",
    "</tr>\n",
    "<tr>\n",
    "<td>1350434307</td>\n",
    "<td>2013-11-05 22:08:02</td>\n",
    "<td>Sell Market</td>\n",
    "<td>GBP/AUD</td>\n",
    "<td>1.68983</td>\n",
    "</tr>\n",
    "<tr>\n",
    "<td>1350434298</td>\n",
    "<td>2013-11-05 22:07:59</td>\n",
    "<td>Sell Market</td>\n",
    "<td>AUD/USD</td>\n",
    "<td>0.94939</td>\n",
    "</tr>\n",
    "</table>\n",
    "\n",
    "And is time to close them... so closing them whereas I am writing this post (just wait me a minute, I will be back!).\n",
    "\n",
    "OK, I closed both positions:\n",
    "\n",
    "<table>\n",
    "<tr>\n",
    "<th>Ticket</th>               \n",
    "<th>Date</th>\n",
    "<th>Transaction</th>\n",
    "<th>Currency Pair</th>\n",
    "<th>Price</th>\n",
    "</tr>\n",
    "<tr>\n",
    "<td>1355893384</td>\n",
    "<td>2013-11-13 01:25:10</td>\n",
    "<td>Close Trade</td>\n",
    "<td>GBP/AUD</td>\n",
    "<td>1.70790</td>\n",
    "</tr>\n",
    "<tr>\n",
    "<td>1355893378</td>\n",
    "<td>2013-11-13 01:25:09</td>\n",
    "<td>Close Trade</td>\n",
    "<td>AUD/USD</td>\n",
    "<td>0.93063</td>\n",
    "</tr>\n",
    "</table>\n",
    "\n",
    "And I added some pics to illustrate these trades:\n",
    "\n",
    "![](../galleries/trades/1.png)\n",
    "![](../galleries/trades/2.png)\n",
    "\n",
    "With these trades, we had a net increment of **4.5%** in the *balance*! \n",
    "\n",
    "Nice beginning! Let's see how far we can go...\n",
    "\n",
    "Damián"
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