Objectives - March 2010

• Read 25 pages per week - Option Volatility and Pricing
• Read 60 pages per week - Data Analysis with Excel
• Read 40 pages per week - VBA Power Programming
• Archive 100 blog posts per week
• Perform 1 backtest research study per week
• Determine specific time period for backtesting that encompasses bear and bull market periods and also has little to no return for the buy-and-hold investor.  Use SPY or IWM to determine backtest period.  Summarize statistics for the period such as number of positive months, number of negative months, etc.
• Study Thinkorswim tutorials for Papermoney.  Learn to place orders for entries and exits, as well as tracking performance.
• Create a trading journal to track trades and various metrics.
• Document daily study activities on blog (pages read, blogs read, trades, tasks, etc.)
• Update daily market breadth indicators spreadsheet