Objectives - February 2011

Below is a list of tasks I wish to complete this month:

• Study DDE for Excel API spreadsheet for TWS Interactive Brokers and begin using for order entry
• Finish StockFinder layout for mean reversion strategy research
• Improve entry and exit orders for mean reversion strategy
• Create post summarizing performance for 2010
• Read trading blog posts daily
• Archive important news and blog posts in searchable database as needed
• Follow the activity of SPY and IWM daily
• Update Market Report daily
• Update Market Breadth Indicators daily
• Simulate trades for mean reversion trading strategy daily using Interactive Brokers paper trading account
• Complete 1 Lessons Learned per week
• Determine top ten trading prop firms to submit resume
• Add swing trading breakout trading plan post to About Me page
• Create spreadsheet of trading network and contacts
• Complete objectives review for January 2011
• Create spreadsheet to track TeleChart long and short mean reversion trades and IB mean reversion trades to evaluate slippage and commissions