Monthly Report 

1^st April 2007  – 30th April 2007

Regular readers may recall that last month I had been working on an analytical program (pictured again below) that looked at some relative strength ideas.  I'm pleased to say that I now have got several of the systems in small-scale production.   So far, the results have been encouraging, and I'm hopeful they will enable me to scale up in the not-too-distant future.

I seem to be on a bit of a programming roll at the moment, because I've now also written another analytical module to look at the effects of economic events on the market (news trading).  So far I haven't come to any conclusions, as I have been concentrating on getting the database right, but the screen shot below should give some idea of what I'm presently looking at.   Basically, the core of the program is an economic event database that includes the date and time of the release, and supporting information including actual and consensus numbers.  From that I can look at any number of pairs, both before and after the event; across a number of timeframes.   

I later expect to add some kind of numerical analysis after I have the event database fully built.

Good trading!