Model Portfolios

Still under construction. I plan on posting model portfolios and watchlists here, and monitoring their performance. In the past, I never placed much value on paper portfolios. And I am still of the opinion that there is nothing like putting your real, hard-earned dollars out there to teach you about trading.
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I am the weak link in my trading system. My emotions are an enemy in my trading. I can be the most calm, cool and collected individual around when it is only for fun, and that is the weakness of paper trading. It does not prepare you for what it is going to feel like when the bullets start flying.
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That said, I have found that paper trading does have value. I use it for setting up different kinds of trades, then keeping track of them. I currently run one of the just-for-fun paper trading mutual funds on Marketocracy under the symbol CMF. I started it January 28 of this year. As of the close of trading April 1, it was up 5.6%. That was frustrating, since my real life trading has not fared that well.
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The Marketocracy experience has taught me some more lessons about what I need to be doing in my real life accounts, and that is valuable, paper trading or not.
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