Live Crude & Gold 15 minute & Daily Charts



Today's Economic timetable



Upcoming UK Ex-Dividend Dates



Reuters



Bloomberg Top Headlines



Marketwatch



The Wall Street Journal



The New York Times



Global Markets



Asian Markets News



South China Morning Post



Japan Times



Business Standard



China Daily



Moscow Times













FTSE / DOW YTD

CC.

Very interesting and honest appraisal.

I know the moment I feel comfortable with my holdings there seems to be a kick in the teeth on the way.

Do you use any particular software packages for management of "portfolios"?

I use a spreadsheet Fred. I have all my open positions in it in a list and then I use a pivot table to consolidate them into a summary. The spreadsheet also works out how much "income" I will get from dividends.

If I want to look at a particular stock I use a filter.

It also does my capital gains calculation as part of my portfolio is in a trust to mitigate inheritance tax. Not one of those off-shore ones I hasten to add - just a standard on-shore discretionary trust where sadly the rate of tax is rather frustrating.

Thanks.

.

Afternoon all.

CC

We've all been there to a certain extent. I too did "OK" at day trading, but the effort, stress and time was consuming the rest of life. I then found I was better "trading" longer term, but still making a life of it full time was not within my grasp. Have done far better just getting into companies on a medium-longer term basis. Retirement beckons for me as well, but not looking for the income route yet. Got a bit more damage to do. :)

Did you ever read Mark Douglas, Trading in the Zone? I found it very enlightening back in the day.

Cheers,
Al

Never read any of them Al. For me day-trading was and is always about psychology and the level of conviction I have over a trade.

Maybe I should