Objectives - April 2010

• Read 25 pages per week - Option Volatility and Pricing
• Read 60 pages per week (Finish) - Data Analysis with Excel
• Read 40 pages per week (Finish) - VBA Power Programming
• Archive 50 blog posts per week
• Perform 1 backtest research study per week
• Post 1 Lessons Learned per week
• Create posts summarizing backtest results for breakout volume and one day weakness analyses
• Start studying the characteristics of high momentum stocks such as stocks that are up 20% in a month, up 50% in a month, up 20% in a week, etc.  Create a spreadsheet to document characteristics of these stocks such as float, volume, beta, linearity, etc. Document factors daily.
• Document daily study activities on blog (pages read, blogs read, trades, tasks, etc.)
• Update market breadth indicators spreadsheet daily
• Monitor StockTwits feed daily
• Monitor intraday performance of SPY and IWM daily