Closed equity is unchanged as no trades were closed during December. I'm mostly cash at the moment, and only holding 2 stocks, GOLD and NVT, which has been the case for the past few months.
I started out in trading early 2005 through managed funds.
November 2005 started in stocks through fundamental analysis.
After the 2006 May correction I learnt to use stops!
A few months afterwards I read Michael Covel's book and it was a real eye opener for me into what can be achieved through mechanical systems trading.
In 2009 I started looking seriously at short term automated trading through AmiBroker/IB as this would allow for all the benefits of short term trading (smoother equity curve, faster recovery from drawdowns, etc) without the associated screen time.
