Tactical Trader

20 yrs of expensive trading lessons — finally profitable the last 3. Live portfolio, strict 75bps risk, stop on every trade. Follow for daily trades. Not FA.

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Updated my live trading dashboards to new URLs.

Be sure to bookmark to follow my trading journey to financial freedom.

📊 Open positions → https://t.co/JF9gxUpKno

👀 Watchlist → https://t.co/0yaLC5dwKP

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Cannabis ETF $MSOS is breaking out with strong direction movement with DI+ > DI-

Buying long $MSOS risking 75bps of trading capital with stop at $4.95. Results in a position size of 4.3%.

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@TedPillows the US dollar $UUP

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New trade: buying Metals and Mining ETF $XME

Risking 75bps of capital with a stop of $116.

Position size = 8.6%

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Using $IGV as the example:

Bullish trend ✅
Breakout of price✅
+DI > -DI ✅
ADX > either DI line ✅

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Monthly Recap for May

May MTD Performance: -4.58%
YTD Performance: +14.30%

May was a rough month for the trend following strategy. First down month of the year.

I went into the month long Oil $USO, Commodities $BCI, Oil Equities $XLE and $OIH which were all stopped out during the month. Also went long and was quickly stopped out of Silver $SLV, Silver Miners $SIL, and Copper Miners $COPX.

The market trend reflected a regime change this month and I am now long new ETFs of:

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Internet $FDN, Software $IGV, Blockchain Equity $BLOK, Solar $TAN, and Argentina $ARGT.

What do all these ETFs have in common?

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Trade Update:

Sold all Copper Miners $COPX (reducing portoflio risk as already hold $CPER)

Sold half South Korea $EWY (beta to $SPY > 3)

New buys:

Internet $FDN, 9.6% position with stop at $259.90

Broker Dealers $IAI, 10.8% position with stop at $171.86

US Dollar $UUP, 15% position with stop at $26.95

Solar $TAN, 3.6% position with stop at $58.49

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I have now built out at correlation analysis tab on my Open Positions site to view risk/beta vs $SPY, $UUP, $TLT, $USO

I also added a SIGNAL QUEUE on my Watchlist to analyze Buy Trigger candidates to my current portfolio and calculate portfolio risk pro-forma

LFG

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Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

After recent drawdown, I went back with Claude Code to analyze my portfolio risk at the time. I was overly concentrated to the same bet through recent additions of $SLV, $SIL, $CPER, $COPX, $PPLT ... portfolio risk was heavily tilted to short USD exposure ...

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@AlphaMind101 Respect.

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@prrobbins Having an initial stop before entering trade and sizing position rising same % of capital to the initial stop

Same way the Turtle Traders 🐢 did it

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Focus on DEFENSE. Don't Give It Back! At least don't give back anymore than I already have in terms of performance.

I did add 1 long yesterday in $AMLP based on a breakout. I will not be adding any additional positions or risk to the portfolio until performance stabilizes.

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TREND FOLLOWING WIPEOUT 🏄‍♀️

Post Mortem of Recent Recent Performance

I was at my all time highs on 5/13 (7 days ago) up 20% YTD. I was doing a lot of High Fiving and raising my stops, however, I was not selling...

Like the great macro trader @tgmacro says, High Five with one hand and sell some with the other. I did not do enough of that...

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My current draw down from all time highs is -6.58%. I'm up +13% YTD.

Yesterday I was stopped out of $PPLT, $SLV, $SIL, and I unwound my $GLD before stop was hit, as price action does not look healthy.

Where to I go from here? ...

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📊 May 18 — DAY MOVERS

Tracking ~150 ETFs covering global macro exposures.
Website: https://t.co/LHBWqo2sbJ

WINNERS
• Developed Europe: $EWG +2.34%, $EWU +2.33%, $ENOR +2.15%, $EWD +1.84%, $EWQ +1.52%, $EWP +1.51%

• Commodities: $WEAT +3.69%, $CORN +3.31%, $SOYB +1.90%, $UNG +1.85%

• Energy: $XES +3.06%, $OIH +3.04%, $XLE +1.92%

• Latin America: $ARGT +3.55%, $ECH +1.50%

LOSERS
• Crypto: $ETHE -4.61%, $IBIT -2.88%

• Uranium & Rare Earth: $URA -2.50%, $REMX -1.95%

• Industrial Miners & Resources: $XME -2.06%, $COPX -1.44%

• Gold & Silver Miners: $SILJ -2.02%, $SIL -1.08%

• US Tech: $SMH -1.83%, $XLK -1.08%

• EM Asia: $EWY -1.54%, $EIDO -1.34%

• US Factor: $MTUM -1.32%, $IWO -1.29%

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Selling all $XME, stop of $113 triggered.

I entered the trade on 4/14, risking 75bps of trading capital. Since opening the trade I have increased the stop a bit, so total loss on the trade is 25bps.

Goal is to keep the loss on the losers less than the gains on the winners.

Defense first.

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Selling all of position $REMX

Stop hit. Defense first.

Ended up with a small gain of $450 on this trade. Nothing to write home about, but did not let a winning trade turn into a losing trade.

Entered trade on 4/10/26, sold 25% position higher and let the rest run until stop was hit today.

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I size all my positions by risking 0.75% of trading capital/AUM to my initial stop. You can find a Trade Calculator on my free watch list site that will do this math for you when you enter required fields.

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Entering new position in $OIH

50 day high breakout triggered

Stop placed below 50 day moving at $412

Position size based on risk of hitting the stop equates to a 8.67% position when risking 0.75% of trading capital/AUM

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On my free watchlist of ~150 ETFs covering global macro exposures, $OIH triggered a 50 day high break out