Signal History for 2016 - Trading the Line

S/T SHORT TERM SIGNALS

Open Date	Type	Signal	In. Stop	Close	Close Date	Gain
12/31/2015	S/T SELL	2045	2060	1901	01/22/16	+ 144
01/22/16	S/T BUY	1901	1882	1880	01/25/16	– 21
01/25/16	S/T SELL	1880	1894	1880	01/26/16	0
01/26/16	S/T BUY	1894	1880	1886	01/27/16	– 8
01/27/16	S/T SELL	1886	1893	1895	01/28/16	– 9
01/28/16	S/T BUY	1895	1885	1912	02/02/16	+ 17
02/02/16	S/T SELL	1912	1922	1860	02/12/16	+ 52
02/12/16	S/T BUY	1860	1853	1899	02/24/16	+ 39
02/24/16	S/T SELL	1893	1913	1913	02/24/16	– 20
02/24/16	S/T BUY	1926	1914	1932	02/29/16	+ 6
03/01/16	S/T BUY	1945	1926	1983	03/08/16	+ 38
03/08/16	S/T BUY	1993	1983	1983	03/08/16	– 10
03/9/16	S/T BUY	1990	1981	1981	03/10/16	– 9
03/10/16	S/T BUY	1985	1980	2037	03/23/16	+ 52
03/29/16	S/T BUY	2044	2033	2045	04/05/16	+ 1
04/06/16	S/T BUY	2061	2054	2050	04/07/16	– 11
04/12/16	S/T BUY	2056	2042	2075	04/28/16	+ 19
04/29/16	S/T SELL	2065	2085	2067	05/10/16	– 2
05/10/16	S/T BUY	2084	2062	2058	05/12/16	– 26
05/13/16	S/T SELL	2054	2064	2066	05/16/16	– 12
05/16/16	S/T BUY	2066	2056	2056	05/17/16	– 10
05/17/16	S/T SELL	2056	2062	2065	05/24/16	– 9
05/24/16	S/T BUY	2065	2050	2096	06/10/16	+ 31
06/14/16	S/T SELL	2072	2095	2095	06/20/16	– 23
06/21/16	S/T BUY	2088	2077	2055	06/24/16	– 33
06/24/16	S/T SELL	2055	2080	2055	06/29/16	0
06/29/16	S/T BUY	2058	2040	2155	02/08/16	+ 97
05/08/16	S/T BUY	2172	2160	2172	08/17/16	0
08/17/16	S/T BUY	2182	2168	2175	08/26/16	– 7
08/26/16	S/T SELL	2165	2180	2180	08/19/16	– 15
08/29/16	S/T BUY	2180	2171	2165	08/31/16	– 15
08/31/16	S/T SELL	2165	2182	2182	09/02/16	– 17
09/06/16	S/T BUY	2184	2173	2165	09/09/16	– 19
09/09/16	S/T SELL	2160	2176	2140	09/12/16	+ 20
09/13/16	S/T SELL	2140	2168	2125	09/13/16	+ 15
09/15/16	S/T BUY	2147	2138	2150	09/26/16	+ 3
09/26/16	S/T SELL	2150	2161	2156	09/27/16	– 6
09/28/16	S/TBUY	2160	2151	09/28/16	09/29/16	– 7
09/29/16	S/T SELL	2153	2167	2163	09/30/16	– 10
09/30/16	S/T BUY	2163	2152	2152	10/04/16	– 11
10/04/16	S/T SELL	2151	2163	2166	10/10/16	– 15
10/10/16	S/T BUY	2166	2152	2152	10/11/16	– 14
10/11/16	S/T SELL	2149	2162	2136	10/11/16	+ 13
10/13/16	S/T SELL	2127	2147	2128	10/13/16	– 1
10/14/16	S/T SELL	2137	2144	2142	10/19/16	– 5
10/19/16	S/T BUY	2142	2133	2136	10/27/16	– 6
10/27/16	S/T SELL	2136	2147	2105	11/01/16	+ 31
11/02/16	S/T SELL	2107	2112	2102	11/02/16	+ 5
11/03/16	S/T SELL	2095	2102	2089	11/03/16	+ 6
11/07/16	S/T BUY	2111	2104	2195	12/01/16	+ 84
12/05/16	S/T BUY	2202	2193	2258	12/28/16	+ 56
12/30/16	S/T SELL	2240	2262	2256	01/03/17	(- 16)

OSC OSCILLATOR MOMENTUM SIGNALS

Open Date	Type	Signal	In. Stop	Close	Close Date	Gain
01/04/16	OSC SELL	2012	2078	1906	01/026/16	+ 106
01/26/16	OSC BUY	1906	1848	1848	08/02/16	– 58
08/02/16	OSC SELL	1853	1928	1928	02/17/16	-75
02/17/16	OSC BUY	1928	1872	2061	04/06/16	+ 133
04/06/16	OSC SELL	2061	2120	2090	05/25/16	– 29
05/25/16	OSC BUY	2090	2026	2075	06/14/16	– 15
06/14/16	OSC SELL	2075	2120	2088	07/05/16	– 13
07/05/16	OSC BUY	2088	1990	2164	04/08/16	+ 76
04/8/2016	OSC SELL	2164	2205	2185	08/11/16	– 19
08/11/16	OSC BUY	2185	2148	2178	08/16/16	– 7
08/16/16	OSC SELL	2178	2194	2139	09/20/16	+ 39
09/20/16	OSC BUY	2139	2115	2139	13/10/16	0
10/13/16	OSC SELL	2139	2180	2141	10/20/16	– 2
10/20/16	OSC BUY	2141	2115	2126	10/31/16	– 15
10/31/16	OSC SELL	2126	2154	2154	11/09/16	– 28
11/07/16	OSC BUY	2163	2118	2249	12/28/16	+ 86
12/28/16	OSC SELL	2258	2288	2268	01/10/17	(-10)

S/T SIGNALS	+378
OSC SIGNALS	+179

It was a tough year especially through the summer with the period of very choppy behaviour but the system catches the big moves and with sensible position sizing it was a very profitable year.

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
Albert Einstein

“All of our days are numbered. We can not afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world; a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you can hold on to that flame, great things can be constructed around it; things that are massive and powerful and world changing. All held up by the tiniest of ideas.”
Nick Cave, 20,000 days on Earth

2026 Positions

(All numbers refer to SPX)

S/T SELL Signal below 6845 on 03 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6877 on 02 Mar

S/T SELL Signal below 6850 on 02 Mar

COVER Short Signal above 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6857 on 27 Feb

COVER Signal below 6884 at 6857 on 27 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6884 on 23 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6850 on 23 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 23 Feb

COVER Signal at 6864 on 23 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6883 on 18 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6834 on 17 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6888 on 12 Feb

COVER Signal at 6915 on 12 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6899 on 06 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 06 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6901 on 04 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

S/T SELL Signal at 6915 on 03 Feb

COVER Signal at 6942 on 03 Feb

S/T BUY Signal at 6968 on 02 Feb

COVER Short Signal at 6938 on 30 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6910 on 30 Jan

COVER Signal at 6940 on 30 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6907 on 29 Jan

COVER Signal at 6934 on 29 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6905 at 6923 on 22 Jan

COVER Signal at 6849 on 21 Jan

S/T SELL Signal below 6894 at 6843 on 20 Jan

COVER Signal below 6925 at 6843 on 20 Jan

S/T BUY Signal at 6961 on 15 Jan

COVER Signal below 6934 at 6925 on 14 Jan

S/T BUY Signal above 6890 at 6900 on 05 Jan

COVER Short Signal at 6864 on 02 Jan

S/T SELL Signal at 6837 on 02 Jan

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“In the end, I’m not interested in that which I fully understand. The words I have written over the years are just a veneer. There are truths that lie beneath the surface of the words... truths that rise up without warning, like the humps of a sea monster and then disappear. What performance and song is to me is finding a way to tempt the monster to the surface, to create a space, where the creature can break through what is real and what is known to us. This shimmering space where imagination and reality intersect... this is where all love and tears and joy exist. This is the place. This is where we live.”
Nick Cave 20,000 days on Earth

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
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>“The mind is a glass floor.
The mind is the spirit’s tear.
The mind is our prior and subsequent ghost.
The mind is the Bullion Express and the blood on the tracks.
The mind is a stone door.
The silver on the backs of mirrors.
The wave that defines the coast.
It’s what the drunk grave robbers couldn’t stuff in their sacks.
The mind is the sum of all and more.
The spasm between one and zero in the Calendar of Black-Hole Years.
The contract between the lash and the whipping post.
A quilt of dreams stitched with facts.
A meaningless argument among whores.
Rain that keeps falling when the sky clears.
A masquerade party, guest and host.
A candlelit landscape of puddled wax.
The mind is what thought is for.
The parking lot at the Mall of Fears.
The fire-pit for the piggy roast.
What the soul surrendered and won’t take back.
The mind is neither either nor or.
The real center of an empty sphere.”
Jim Dodge, Stone Junction, 1990

“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
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“There was a student... just the other day... who said that my problem, if one's nature is a problem, rather than just problematic, is that I see things in terms of victory or death, and not just victory but total victory. And it's true: I always have. It's either victory, or don't bother. The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray. You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This? Twenty- odd years of school which is all instruction in how to be ordinary... or they'll fucking kill you, they fucking will, and then it's a career, which is not the same thing as existence... I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do... every day. I'd rather die if I don't get it.”
The Gambler (2014), Dir. Rupert Wyatt