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Hello, I wonder what good free portfolio manager applications there is. I want to input historical trades from my trading strategy and have it calculate win/loss ratio, etc for me. And create reports that shows return per month. In the past I have done simple calculations in Excel, but it's cumbersome and slow/boring to do.

Ok, I will describe my strategy deeper. - The strategy trades Intermediate Term swings (multi-month trends). - Only executes trades in the main direction of the long term trend (LT) If the LT trend filter is in Bull/Long mode (cyclical bull market) we only take the BUY signals, and the opposite if the LT filter is in Bear/Short mode. Here is a chart illustrating the Intermediate Term swings of the S&P 500 that the strategy seek to exploit: http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5597/itswingsspxmq2.jpg (will add more info later)

Ok, I will describe my strategy more closer. - The strategy trades multi-month trends. - Only executes trades in the main direction of the long term trend (LT) If the LT trend filter is in Bull/Long mode (cyclical bull market) we only take the BUY signals, and the opposite if the LT filter is in Bear/Short mode. Chart illustrating the Intermediate Term swings of the S&P 500 that the strategy trades: http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5597/itswingsspxmq2.jpg

Ok I see. Here is an old chart showing strategy signals and trade P/L's for year 2003-2006 http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=c2yz5.gif I will see if I can make something more updated. I'm very happy with the entry signals, it is the exit/sl that I want to see if I can find a better method than the one I currently use.

Hello, I'm looking tips on good stop loss / profit taking methods for Intermediate Term trading (1-9 month market trends). I looking for something thats not too tight stoping me out of the trade too early or too loose giving back too much gains. I trade the S&P 500 index.