Personal Track Record

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Personal Track Record

Inception date January 25, 2008
Long/Short Long and Short
Cap bias Small cap
Holding Period Short term

Performance and Risk

Performance Summary (as at end of February 02, 2012)
Member  
Include cash 1M 3M YTD 1Y SI
Inception January 25, 2008 Member S&P 500
Month to date (%) 0.00 4.41
3 month (%) 0.00 4.76
1 year (%) 0.00 2.09
Annualized since inception (%) 16.13 0.68
Since inception (%) 82.50 n/a
Sharpe (annualized) 0.86 0.01
% of positive months 16.33 60.81

Past performance is not indicative of future performance

Commentary - Latest Posts

  • Cash Remains King. October 14, 2008

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  • FTO Trade - August 7, 2008 August 07, 2008

    Back from my trip overseas and back in the market.


    Making a tactical bet on oil refiners for the medium-term (next 3-6 months most likely). Refiners are somewhat independent from other energy stocks / price of oil and have taken a beating over the past year.  FTO beat earnings today but dropped over 8% on fears future results will be further negatively impacted by the weakening U.S. economy and the effect of record high crude. 


    The drop today helps the positive features of this stock (1. fantastic......

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  • July 1, 2008 Update (watchlist ideas) July 01, 2008

    Added an Interactive Broker's account so I can take a roundtrip trade on just about any share allotment I typically use for $2.00.  I think execution is faster on IB than Scottrade as well, so if you're hesitant about holding long positions in the current market it might be worth putting some cash into a short-term trading account over there.  

    Also using ThinkorSwim which is a bit more expensive but still nominal trading costs and a much better platform than IB or ST.


    Easy scalping today on AAPL -......

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  • Transferring brokers over next few days June 23, 2008

    I'll be switching from Scotrade to Interactive Brokers over the next few days.  During this time I cannot trade, so I've cashed out my positions.  


    Should be able to resume mid to late-week.



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patrickjosmith Profile Picture
  • Job Title Private Investments
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Expertise 5-10 years
  • Education -
  • Country United States
  • State Colorado

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  1. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
  2. Performance of a Personal Track Record is calculated by Covestor on a daily time-weighted basis of equity positions in the account provided by the member. It is exclusive of any commissions, fees, dividends, earnings distributions, and cash in the portfolio.
  3. Month to Date returns and Since Inception returns are revised daily. All other returns (month, 3 month, year to date, et al) are calculated as of the most recent month end date.
  4. All graph data is as of the end of day for the referenced period, unless otherwise specified.
  5. Benchmark returns have been calculated by Covestor using a time-weighted calculation of daily index valuations and do not include cash, dividends and earnings distributions, or transaction costs. More
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