Top 10 best and worst trades of the last year

Below I have summarised the top 10 winning and losing trades taken over the course of the last twelve months. These are included in the 160+ trades I took, which form the performance statistics summarised here:

Top 10 winners:

	Date opened		Company	Opening price	Closing price	Risk:Reward ratio
1	28-Feb-13		Supervalu	398.100	618.000	8.80
2	28-Aug-12		Northern Dynasty Minerals	274.600	508.900	7.81
3	09-Jul-12		Supergroup	348.000	604.000	7.76
4	05-Dec-12		Banco Espirito Santo (URE used)	82.200	116.100	4.84
5	10-Apr-13		Unipol SpA - pfd	201.510	239.000	4.54
6	07-Aug-12		D S Smith	159.000	200.180	3.74
7	05-Dec-12		Banco Espirito Santo	82.200	106.000	3.40
8	06-Feb-13		Zynga	286.000	345.600	2.98
9	06-Aug-12		Exillon Energy	106.810	147.430	2.94
10	17-Jul-12		Homeserve	169.710	215.000	2.66

Top 10 losers:

	Date opened		Company	Opening price	Closing price	Risk:Reward ratio
1	16-Aug-12		Shanks Group	83.160	74.690	(1.69)
2	31-May-13		Affymax	197.100	148.000	(1.64)
3	11-Apr-13		Cape plc	328.410	322.000	(1.00)
4	11-Mar-13		Bankinter SA	453.200	433.500	(0.79)
5	01-Aug-12		Highland Gold Mining	116.120	110.000	(0.61)
6	03-Jan-13		Avocet Mining	73.940	70.400	(0.59)
7	15-Mar-13		Abengoa SA	233.800	225.000	(0.59)
8	06-Mar-13		Bebe Stores Inc	420.100	406.100	(0.56)
9	25-Jan-13		CPP Group	22.371	18.500	(0.55)
10	13-Jun-13		Saipem SpA	1,973.000	2,028.000	(0.55)

Some notes:

• All of the above trades except one (Saipem short) were long trades;
• I hold one open position that would be in the top 10 winners - this is not shown above;
• One of the winning trades included a dividend received;
• Two of the losses were bigger than 1R - this is where the stock gapped through my intended stop levels;
• On one of the winning trades I employed the Uniform Risk Exit (go here for more);
• Although not shown here, the holding period for these losing trades was significantly shorter than the winning trades - in some cases the trades were closed on the same day they were opened;
• Showing how the tight stops I use can sometimes work against me, the day after closing the Saipem short the stock fell more than 28%;
• I have shown on the blog plenty of charts where the profits have been at least 10x the initial amount risked (e.g. look at Ted Baker on this post) - I did not have a winner of that magnitude in the year.

These trade signals were all per the system rules in my e-book, and were tweeted in real time to the members of the mentoring programme. Alternatively, I can show you via the 1-2-1 training how I go about trading and obtaining results such as these.