Vicky is trading a notional portfolio of $50,000 testing her strategies and trading plan before embarking on the real thing. You can read her bio here and view the trading plan here.
Although based in New Zealand she prefers to trade the ASX, generally holding shares from days to months.
Vicky is a mum and also works part-time in a busy publishing company, so fits her passion for trading around these other commitments. (Trying to prove it can be done!)
Using the name, Shetrader, Vicky posts regular trading blogs so you can follow her progress and decisions surrounding her trades.
Blogs by this Author
I mentioned earlier that I joined the VirtualShares..com.au trading game and was part of the Sharetrader group (only about 10 players joined in this group). The game finished after 42 days and it w...
From the ASXDuring the Game period (August 5 – November 14) we saw a lot of volatility and uncertainty in the markets. Over this time the All Ordinaries (XAO) lost 26%. With the market in a si...
The markets have been all over the place and when you think they can't go any lower, they inevitably do! Worst bear market drop in history - yah, glad to have been there for that one.Seems there wi...
It's been pretty frenetic times on the markets lately. The ASX has reached 5-year lows.Thought it was about time to update my trading diary. Here is a summary of my progress (or equity curve) - whic...
Your current portfolio (live) Portfolio total $50,543.18 >> See details National performance (at close 11/09) National leader $57,506.77 National average $48,074.32 Your ranking (at close 11/09)...
Well, well, well. What can I say. The market has been all over the place the past week - up, down.I came across my first delemna in respect to Stop Losses. When you are trading CFD's, you can move y...
Have been geeking out and putting close of day stats into a spreadsheet to track my performance. Remembering that my iniital goal was to increase my account by 3% over the 3 months, I may well have...
The markets have been continuing on a slight uptrend. BHP went ex-dividend on the 1st and fared ok, but subsequently dropped over 1% yesterday and nearly hit my stop loss. We're hanging in there, bu...
Well the good news is that my account is now up 6.5%, albeit on the back of a couple of positive days on the ASX200 anyway.Perhaps my initial goal of increasing my account by 3% wasn't ambitious enoug...
The market has been up and down, some days following the US and some days not. BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) has performed well and increased 5.9%.I have changed the initial stop on BHP to a trailing stop...
