The experiment has fully recovered from all the problem children trades and reached its high-water mark today. Now let's see if I can continue to...
Finally a little down action allowed me to close my two problem children trades without too much damage. The account was up about $1,000 on the...
My strategy might not be the best, but at least I am posting what I'm doing daily. Stones my man!
Post your daily trade log, Overnight! Let's see this superior performance!
No I am up $4,414.19 since April 5.
Don't be jealous, Maverick!
Good question! I did speak with TD and they confirmed that I can't!
If you are following along on my trade log, I did something entirely new based on tastytrade's research. I bought a 1210 put calendar spread in...
I failed to close a couple of ES trades when they reached a loss equal to 2x the credit received. This happened because I can't enter stop limit...
I haven't been posting many updates but all trades are up to date on my trading log. The remaining problem children trades will be closed this...
You're right. I'm sure they would much prefer to be down money on the year. Gotcha! Perfect sense!
I would imagine that quite a few fund managers would love to be up on the year.
Great question, Maverick. There are two things that I look out to tell me that I've gotten too big. The first is my theta. My ideal number is...
Back to the experiment, the account was up around $500 for the day and up $3230 since inception. I sold a single SPY put today at 20 deltas. I...
I didn't add any trades today because the account is maxed out. I'm still hoping for some significant downward movement in order to take care of...
One trade today. I sold the SPY 16 SEP 16 205P(1) with 53 DTE. Theta is 229, delta is -776, vega is -1070. My experiment is treading water and...
On my SPX and SPY I set up two closing orders simultaneously. One to take profits at 50% and the other to close at 2x loss, with one order...
Three trades today. [ATTACH] Here's a look at the Greeks: [ATTACH] Since I can't enter a OCO order to close my ES positions at 2x the credit...
And the asshole of the day award goes to . . .
My apologies, Maverick. The worksheet has now been updated.
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