Portfolio Review 01.05.2017

After the main portion of my eToro credits have been withdrawn from my eToro account, I took a break from ManualTrading to find new trading approaches. A few weeks ago I resumed my activities and would like to share my new strategy with you in this portfolio review. As always, the plain numbers first:

CopyTrading: -19,9% (last portfolio review: -21,2%)
ManualTrading: -11,0% (last portfolio review: -11,7%)
Overall: -15,7% (last portfolio review: -17,0%)



Remark: The graph above shows the profits relative to the money deposited on my eToro account. It doesn't consider remaining credits as well as compensation that I receive as popular investor on eToro.

Portfolio Review and adjustments 18.03.2017

When I first deposited money on my account, I received credits from eToro. After six months they have now been deducted which forced me to rearrange my portfolio. Here is my current portfolio status:

CopyTrading: -15,14%
ManualTrading: -8,11%
Overall: -12,01%

Portfolio Review 18.02.2017

I have been trading on eToro for nearly six months now, so time to share another portfolio review. Unfortunately I am still not profitable overall, but I have the feeling to make some progress on my manual trading:

CopyTrading: -10,92%
ManualTrading: -7,02%
Overall: -9,30%

Portfolio Review 14.01.2017

I didn't intend to publish another portfolio review just two weeks after the last one. But while reviewing my portfolio for myself I realized, that for the first time since I started trading, my ManualTrading portfolio has performed better (or less bad) than my CopyTrading portfolio:

CopyTrading: -8,03%
ManualTrading: -3,71%
Overall: -5,94%

Portfolio Review 01.01.2017

The year 2016 has come to an end, so it was time for a portfolio review. December has been a rough month for both CopyTrading and ManualTrading with quite some losses. Therefore the following numbers are somewhat disappointing:

CopyTrading: -7,74%
ManualTrading: -9,48%
Overall: -8,58%

The following graph shows the course of my equity:

Portfolio Review 12.11.2016

It has been six weeks since my last portfolio review and those weeks were exciting. We have seen quite some volatitly, mainly due to the elections of the 45th U.S. president. There was a lot of uncertainty and also some fear of what might happen. Finally Trump is the one to move into the white house and the markets didn't collapse as some traders might have expected. In addition to those interesting market surroundings, eToro - today the only platform I am trading on - introduced a new investment product: The CopyFunds (check eToro's website for more information). So it was about time to review my portfolio, so here we go:

CopyTrading: +2,54%
ManualTrading: -13,54%
Overall: -5,22%

Portfolio Review 01.10.2016

It is the end of a week, end of a month and end of a quarter - good time for a new portfolio review. There had been a lot of ups and downs with a positive result:

CopyTrading: +0,25% (total: +0,85%)
ManualTrading: +0,62% (total: -3,79%)

Porfolio review 17.09.2016

This week was rather bad for my portfolio. I already posted my big loss with copper here. In addition my CopyTrading portfolio wasn't going well - difficult times for all traders. My overall balance for the last trading week:

CopyTrading: -0,85% (total -0,03%)
ManualTrading:  -6,63% (total -7,56%)

Portfolio review 10.09.2016

Today I reviewed my portfolio to check on my overall performance so far. I figured that I had 25.9% of my equity invested in CopyTrading, 39,6% in open trades and 34,5% currently not invested. I also checked on my gains so far:

CopyTrading:    +1,64%
ManualTrading: -0,99%

Looks like I am better in picking people for CopyTrading than to trade on my own. An additional motivation to continue working on my trading strategy (check what happened so far here). It is also obvious that I need to keep a higher ratio of my equity invested, for a better overall performance. Based on the figures I decided to work on my CopyTrading portfolio.