Objectives - May 2011

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

• 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
• Simulate trades for swing trade breakout strategy daily
• Finish reading Option Volatility & Pricing
• Complete 1 options trading tutorial from CBOE education website each week
• Complete 1 Lessons Learned per week
• Create post summarizing list of questions for traders and programmers
• Add historical backtest results for day trade mean reversion baseline strategy to the DTMR trading plan blog post
• Add historical backtest results for swing trade breakout strategy to the STBO trading plan blog post
• Continue to network with traders and programmers
• Begin paper trading day trade mean reversion baseline strategy with Interactive Brokers trading simulator
• Track DTMR strategy with excel to evaluate slippage compared to IB results