Tactical Trader @TradeTactically

Cannabis ETF $MSOS is breaking out with strong direction movement with DI+ > DI- Buying long $MSOS risking 75bps of trading capital with stop at $4.95. Results in a position size of 4.3%.

@TedPillows the US dollar $UUP

New trade: buying Metals and Mining ETF $XME Risking 75bps of capital with a stop of $116. Position size = 8.6%

Using $IGV as the example: Bullish trend ✅ Breakout of price✅ +DI > -DI ✅ ADX > either DI line ✅

Internet $FDN, Software $IGV, Blockchain Equity $BLOK, Solar $TAN, and Argentina $ARGT. What do all these ETFs have in common?

Monthly Recap for May May MTD Performance: -4.58% YTD Performance: +14.30% May was a rough month for the trend following strategy. First down month of the year. I went into the month long Oil $USO, Commodities $BCI, Oil Equities $XLE and $OIH which were all stopped out during the month. Also went long and was quickly stopped out of Silver $SLV, Silver Miners $SIL, and Copper Miners $COPX. The market trend reflected a regime change this month and I am now long new ETFs of:

Trade Update: Sold all Copper Miners $COPX (reducing portoflio risk as already hold $CPER) Sold half South Korea $EWY (beta to $SPY > 3) New buys: Internet $FDN, 9.6% position with stop at $259.90 Broker Dealers $IAI, 10.8% position with stop at $171.86 US Dollar $UUP, 15% position with stop at $26.95 Solar $TAN, 3.6% position with stop at $58.49

I have now built out at correlation analysis tab on my Open Positions site to view risk/beta vs $SPY, $UUP, $TLT, $USO I also added a SIGNAL QUEUE on my Watchlist to analyze Buy Trigger candidates to my current portfolio and calculate portfolio risk pro-forma LFG

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. After recent drawdown, I went back with Claude Code to analyze my portfolio risk at the time. I was overly concentrated to the same bet through recent additions of $SLV, $SIL, $CPER, $COPX, $PPLT ... portfolio risk was heavily tilted to short USD exposure ...

@AlphaMind101 Respect.

@prrobbins Having an initial stop before entering trade and sizing position rising same % of capital to the initial stop Same way the Turtle Traders 🐢 did it

Focus on DEFENSE. Don't Give It Back! At least don't give back anymore than I already have in terms of performance. I did add 1 long yesterday in $AMLP based on a breakout. I will not be adding any additional positions or risk to the portfolio until performance stabilizes.

My current draw down from all time highs is -6.58%. I'm up +13% YTD. Yesterday I was stopped out of $PPLT, $SLV, $SIL, and I unwound my $GLD before stop was hit, as price action does not look healthy. Where to I go from here? ...

TREND FOLLOWING WIPEOUT 🏄‍♀️ Post Mortem of Recent Recent Performance I was at my all time highs on 5/13 (7 days ago) up 20% YTD. I was doing a lot of High Fiving and raising my stops, however, I was not selling... Like the great macro trader @tgmacro says, High Five with one hand and sell some with the other. I did not do enough of that...

📊 May 18 — DAY MOVERS Tracking ~150 ETFs covering global macro exposures. Website: trade-tactically.netlify.app/watchlist_dash… WINNERS • Developed Europe: $EWG +2.34%, $EWU +2.33%, $ENOR +2.15%, $EWD +1.84%, $EWQ +1.52%, $EWP +1.51% • Commodities: $WEAT +3.69%, $CORN +3.31%, $SOYB +1.90%, $UNG +1.85% • Energy: $XES +3.06%, $OIH +3.04%, $XLE +1.92% • Latin America: $ARGT +3.55%, $ECH +1.50% LOSERS • Crypto: $ETHE -4.61%, $IBIT -2.88% • Uranium & Rare Earth: $URA -2.50%, $REMX -1.95% • Industrial Miners & Resources: $XME -2.06%, $COPX -1.44% • Gold & Silver Miners: $SILJ -2.02%, $SIL -1.08% • US Tech: $SMH -1.83%, $XLK -1.08% • EM Asia: $EWY -1.54%, $EIDO -1.34% • US Factor: $MTUM -1.32%, $IWO -1.29%

Selling all $XME, stop of $113 triggered. I entered the trade on 4/14, risking 75bps of trading capital. Since opening the trade I have increased the stop a bit, so total loss on the trade is 25bps. Goal is to keep the loss on the losers less than the gains on the winners. Defense first.

Selling all of position $REMX Stop hit. Defense first. Ended up with a small gain of $450 on this trade. Nothing to write home about, but did not let a winning trade turn into a losing trade. Entered trade on 4/10/26, sold 25% position higher and let the rest run until stop was hit today.

I size all my positions by risking 0.75% of trading capital/AUM to my initial stop. You can find a Trade Calculator on my free watch list site that will do this math for you when you enter required fields.

On my free watchlist of ~150 ETFs covering global macro exposures, $OIH triggered a 50 day high break out

Entering new position in $OIH 50 day high breakout triggered Stop placed below 50 day moving at $412 Position size based on risk of hitting the stop equates to a 8.67% position when risking 0.75% of trading capital/AUM