Introduction
As one of Spain’s most popular eToro traders, Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta has been a keen stock market observer for more than 30 years. Along the way, he has developed trading strategies that found success and high yielding profits in the market. Today, that achievement has carried over to making him as one of the most copied traders on eToro, thereby giving up-and-coming traders someone to look up to and imitate. Get to know him more in this profile article.
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Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta Fact Card
Name: José Ángel Zabalegui Labarta
Nationality: Spanish
Alma mater: Universidad CEU San Pablo, Business Administration
The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (The CISI), Certificate in International Advanced Wealth Management Level 3 and 4
Title: Popular Investor, eToro
Trading, Análisis Cíclico
Founder & Managing Director, Tracom Investment
Social media:
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jazabalegui
Education
Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta finished a Business Administration degree at Universidad CEU San Pablo, a private Catholic university in Madrid, where he attended college from 1998 - 1992. Almost 30 years later in December 2021, he earned a Certificate in International Advanced Wealth Management Level 3 and 4 from the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (The CISI).
Career History
Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta started a professional career in Banking by trading futures, options and government bonds shortly after graduating from college in the early 90's. Over the course of his tenure in the industry, Zabalegui Labarta developed an interest in studying and analyzing the financial market by coming up with his own technical analysis focusing on forex, commodities and stock indices. Aside from his banking and trading career, he has also garnered a wealth of experience developing strategies for online marketing, e-commerce, social networking and blogging.
He has been the Founder & Managing Director of Tracom Investments SL since 2004. Before that, he was a Production Manager and Board Member of the pro-environment company Good for You and Good for the Planet from 2004 to 2014 and as Managing Director in Spain for CondeNet from 2001 to 2004. Prior to that he has served in various positions in several companies in the financial and banking industry such as CIMD, Credit Agricole Indosuez and Kelkoo.
In the last five years, he has ramped up his investing activity by beginning to trade on the eToro platform while mastering concepts of market analysis based on JM HURSR Cyclic Theory.
Zabalegui Labarta is also an active advocate about the environment and the energy sector, thanks to his more than a decade of active participation in various Research and Development projects relating to the environment and energy industry.
Trading in eToro
Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta began trading as user @Analisisciclico on the eToro platform in 2017 after he was convinced of the many benefits of social trading and learning about eToro's Popular Investor Program. He found the many features of the platform beneficial to traders because it reduces the over-all risk of trading.
He also credited the eToro platform for providing investors a transparent and limitless business opportunities for traders. When he started trading on eToro, he first made sure to diversify and protect his investment by using the platform's stop-loss automated orders and established a 5-year time frame perspective.
Trading Methods
Zabalegui Labarta's go-to trading strategy is "swing trading" especially on US indices and on major currency pairs. He retains his invested assets for an average of 4-5 days using several proven methodologies and keen technical analysis of the market.
He then applies what he calls the JM HURST Cyclic Theory — a theory that states that cycles of various values, sizes and degrees, will eventually synchronize at a given point that are determined by their harmonic proportions — whenever he would need to come up with an important trading decision or approach.
Net Worth
Since 2017, Zabalegui Labarta has attracted almost 6,000 copiers and over 77,000 followers with more than $5 million in copy assets under management.
Portfolio
Holding an average risk score of 3-4, Zabalegui Labarta has transacted on a total of 316 trades since he started on eToro in 2017. Of these trades, he has achieved a profitability rate of 65.82%.
Past performance is not an indication of future results. Trading history presented is less than 5 complete years and may not suffice as basis for investment decision.
By consulting his eToro trading history, you will learn that he heavily traded on currencies 77.18% of the time, followed by Indices with 13.93% frequency rate, Commodities with 5.38% and Stocks and ETFs with 2.88% and 0.63% respectively.
His most commonly traded forex pairs are the NZD/USD which he traded a total of 25 times followed by the DJ30 in 21 instances and the GBP/USD for 20 trades.
Currently, the top three financial assets on his portfolio are the USD/CAD, GBP/USD and NZD/USD forex pairs.
Zabalegui Labarta averages 5.75 trades per week with an average holding time of 1.5 weeks and a 58.18% profitability week rating.
| Year | Performance |
|---|---|
| 2017 | 42.43 |
| 2018 | 144.73 |
| 2019 | -5.43 |
| 2020 | 7.34 |
| 2021 | 29.49 |
How to Follow?
Still deciding if you should follow Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta? Well, for one he is generous with offering advice to his followers. He would often remind that trading's end goal is to achieve profits but to maintain sustained profitability is like joining a marathon. This and other handy tips will help any budding trader get a head-start in the complex world of trading. What are you waiting for, to follow Zabalegui Labarta, simply click the “+” icon displayed beside the Copy button on his eToro profile page.
How to Copy?
In order to copy this trader, you'll need to have a trading account first with eToro. Signing-up for an account with this brokerage firm will initially ask for a username, email address and a password and the process will only take around less than a minute to accomplish. After that, you'll need to verify your account and make an initial deposit so that you will have funds to allocate for copying Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta's positions.
- Once you have an account with funds, all you need to do is to go to his profile. Labarta's eToro profile can be accessed here: etoro.com/people/analisisciclico
 trading profile on eToro.webp)
Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta (@Analisisciclico) trading profile on eToro - Click on the "Copy" button. This will launch a pop-up window.
Clicking Copy button - Enter the amount that you'd like to allocate for copying this trader.
Entering amount to copy Jose Angel Zabalegui Labarta on eToro - You can also set the platform to stop copying if the copy value drops below a specific ratio or amount. Another parameter that you can configure is the "Copy Open New Trades". A check on the box will automatically copy any new positions that Labarta will open.
Configuring copy trading parameters - Click the "Copy" button to execute the copy order.
Executing copy trade order on eToro
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