Period Update 12/30/2017 - 03/31/2018 ---------- Good three months (+73.6K, +42%). One big down month, Jan, followed by two strong months of Feb/March. Jan was shaping up to be a negative month, but made some final blunders that accounted for the big negative. Missed out on much of the upside, and just when I decided to put some momentum strategies to work, the market started to fail, resulting in even more negatives. Glad though the volatility picked up in Feb and Mar, and became very active with the volatility strategies - worked wonderfully to recoup my losses from Jan, and racked up more gains. Hope the state of the market continues a while! As the account grows, the acceleration rules means I can do more % size on options now. Next update will be in 3 months.Still not ready to revert to monthly updates. Code: For 2018 Starting Balance: 172,023 Start Date End Date P/L Withrawal Closing Balance 2018-01-01 2018-02-05 -55560 -6000 110,463 2018-02-05 2018-03-05 70245 -3000 177,708 2018-03-05 2018-03-31 58942 0 236,650
Nice profits. You smashed through the poverty line! How do you feel about going back to monthly updates?
No monthly updates. Don't want to get back there, and get jinxed (account goes below once again). Besides there isn't much motivation to do that.
I trade stocks and stock options. About 70% of my option positions are intra-day (not held overnight) - but the opportunities are like one such trade every 3 or 4 days: yes I am picky. You can't be very active in the intra-day time frame, as the costs can quickly add up.
Period Update 03/31/2018 - 06/30/2018 ---------- Negative three months, down 13.5K(6%). Lots of toiling without any break-through. Suffered the first month with some serious losses after raising my leverage on options. Had to scale back, pared back the losses, but nothing remarkable afterwards. I hope the next 3 months provide something better. Next update will be in 3 months. Code: For 2018 Starting Balance: 172,023 Cumulative P/L: 60,044 Start Date End Date P/L Withrawal Closing Balance 2018-01-01 2018-02-05 -55560 -6000 110,463 2018-02-05 2018-03-05 70245 -3000 177,708 2018-03-05 2018-03-31 58942 0 236,650 2018-03-31 2018-05-05 -16482 -3000 217,168 2018-05-05 2018-06-02 -6498 0 210,670 2018-06-02 2018-06-30 9397 0 220,067
Well done keeping going since 2014 ! You must be getting more comfortable though with some big wins ?