Thomas Walters

Trades


Long Term Investments
I invest in an S&P 500 tracker mutual fund (unhedged) and so I created a chart using MATLAB to monitor its performance. Each plotted point represents a purchase made, and the vertical lines show a new year, with the percentage growth in the previous year. I try to leverage profits using technical analysis to time investments, which this chart can give an insight into. I am also looking to leverage with currency hedging when I feel that the USDGBP is high in relation to average historic levels.

Performance Chart

Here is a hedged fund that uses currency forwards, options and currency swaps, to track the S&P 500 index. The graph was creating in MATLAB using data from the Financial Times, tracking the fund price in GBP and the actual index price in USD. The index price is adjusted to be equivalent to the Fund price on day 0, and subsequent prices are divided by this constant to allow for a simple comparison.

Performance Chart

28/10/2023

SPX Currency Hedged

Continuing to purchase and DCA the S&P 500 index (currency hedged) due to its poor performance since July, despite the dollar strengthening against the pound and the DXY rising, suggesting the index has not even been able to rise with the strengthening currency. Still awaiting a bullish reversal and hopefully a crossover in the MACD.
Result: As of June 2024, SPX is up approx 24% since this image was taken in November 2023

29/08/2023

HSBA (Long)

Entry: 595.6 GBX
Target: 650 GBX
Stop Loss: 575 GBX
Duration: ~2 weeks
Traded off of strong technicals

Result: +4.925% (held for 17 days)

22/08/2023

FTSE 100 (Long)

Entry: 7262 GBP
Target: 7450 GBP
Duration: ~3 weeks
Will not look to hold beyond 21st September, due to next BoE decision. This trade is played off strong technicals in the RSI, Stochastics and MACD, as well as reaching a key support level.

I coded the graph below which shows the mutual fund that I traded, also showing how closely it followed the index. In the future I will look to trade using ETFs, to enter/exit at any time in the day.


Result: +1.243% (held for 20 days)