[IMG] This is what is to be expected from the 14Jun/17Jun 283/282 Put. Purple line is today and the green arrow is where current price was when I...
[IMG] [IMG] My first attempt to trade diagonal spreads. I took these trades last tuesday when SPY was ~278.50 so the 282/281 & 283/282 were both...
Very true. An important reason for me to stop daytrading. Such <15 periods can go on for months.
Some thoughts on trading options. This is a relatively new instrument for me. (trading it for less than a year and not very actively) There are...
[IMG] Another month has passed. And there's good and bad news. The good news is that my sytem works. The picture above was a prediction for the...
Sold this @3.74 (underlying was ~284.07) P/L on this position: +6% Open positions are PM and FB and both rather red. JP
SPY - long Jun21'19 282 PUT @3.52 (ETF was ~285.40) Shorting the index instead of a stock... JP
Yes, please do. I'm using options myself as a directional trade. Just buying calls or puts. But I'm very interested in the mechanics of those...
[IMG] I really need to pick up my homework again during the weekend because there is a clear correlation between actually doing it and my...
[IMG] Concerning the PM trade: V-shape reversal on the weekly. The top was around 92.70. Meanwhile we had a retrace back to ~82.50, which has...
Facebook (FB) - long Jun21'19 190 CALL @4.60 (stock price was ~186.76) Not exactly a bargain right now. But... this signalled yesterday....
Philip Morris (PM) - long Jun21'19 87.5 CALL @1.15 (stock price was ~85.34) JP
Throwing this out. Not going as expected. Sold DIA @$2.43 (ETF price was ~254.80) P/L on this position -35% JP
[img] DIA - long Jun21'19 262 CALL @3.70 (ETF price was ~258.80) Seems like an interesting place for a push up on the daily chart with the double...
To elaborate a bit on the inactivity: I'm a great fan and user of cycles in stock charts. Some years ago I did some testing with Fourier...
[IMG] Monthly P/L: +15.96% (on account) No new trades were initialised in April. So this is all the result of the seeds that were planted in...
[IMG] [IMG] Sold GS @$3.60 (stock price was ~202.57) P/L on this position +28% I was hoping that this would break out of the sideways zone to...
I've put in a stop order on GS @2.85. It's not my habit with options, in fact it's the first time I do this in this journal. But I have to go for...
[IMG] Sold MMM @7.30 (stock price was ~213.79) P/L on this position +82% Broke out of it's triangle. Monthly is still up for me. But since it's...
[IMG] Monthly P/L: +0.28% (on account) Month started ok and ended horribly. On the 8th of March many stocks started an upswing. Should have...
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