I used to daytrade futures and there I would always put in a stop together with the entry order. But with the options plan, there is no hard stop...
Sold that one @1,15 (stock price was ~69,11) P/L on this position -37% Also long MMM 207.5 call Apr18'19 @ 4.00 (stock price was ~207.47) JP
Good trades are not the ones that make money but the ones were you follow the system. Classifying trades as good/bad whether they make $ or not...
[IMG] Sold NKE @2.60 (stock price was ~83.71) P/L on this position +8% This position looked like a dead fish in the water for a while now. The...
ConocoPhillips (COP) - long 65 May17'19 PUT @1.82 (stock price was ~67.12) Open positions are GS (long) / NKE (short) GS is taking quite a...
I use stochastics for almost everything. Trend determination (direction, strength, continuation / reversal) on different timeframes. Also entry,...
Nike (NKE) - long 85 Apr18'19 PUT @2.39 (stock price was ~85.81) JP
Thx for your interest. I didn't trade options the last 3-4 months of 2018. But I did test this particular strategy earlier that year. So this...
[IMG] On the left Altria (MO) as posted on feb 21st - on the right, today's graph. Sold rest of MO @$6.15 (stock price was ~56.10) P/L on this...
[IMG] GS - long 205 Apr18'19 CALL @2.80 (stock price was ~196.34) GS is moving sideways for almost two months now. I expect this to go higher...
Currently on my watchlist for longs: Goldman Sachs (GS) & IBM. Also Estee Lauder (EL) - but that seems not suitable for an option play (spread is...
[IMG] weekly: I've used the S&P this time instead of the DJ, but the result is more or less the same. A big red bar last week, the first one in...
[IMG] MO reached its initial target. But since it's going up in an otherwise red day so far, I think I'll hold on to it a bit longer. JP
[ATTACH] I was away for a couple of days so the promised reflection on the bumpy start is a bit later. The chart above shows the first trade of...
[IMG] Monthly P/L: +13.01% (on account) Some good things happened, some less good things happened, and no really bad things happenend. The...
Sold MS @0.87 (stock price was ~42.03). After two weeks, this isn't exactly working out like expected. So it has to go. P/L on this trade: -7%
Sold half of the MO position @2.73 (stock price was ~52.10) Target still remains 54-55 ish. Might stall here or even go down a bit. So with...
[IMG] Weekly Update: Ninth green bar in a row on the weekly, amazing recovery really. Nothing new to tell - still think this is a "too late to...
[IMG] Altria (MO) finally broke out of its sideways consolidation yesterday. So hoping for that move to extend. I'm deleting AMX from my...
[IMG] On my SHORT watchlist: AMX seems ready to go down some more. Maybe even a full $ or more. LONG watchlist: AMZN seems at an interesting...
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