LOL. You must have a good memory. I forgot I even posted that. But yes, it's true. I blew a $20K loan day trading index futures knowing absolutely NOTHING and my parents helped me refinance the loan on better terms (still had to pay it back myself, no handouts). It wasn't exactly a sinking hole, but at the time being a debt that was hard to carry with high interest as a student with low income. And yes. I promised them to never trade again and honored that 'promise' for a few years. Nobody in my family knows I'm trading. Funny thing is I probably have my 10K hours doing this and only my girlfriend knows. Anyways. Back to the market. I think we'll see a decent recovery tomorrow. Minimum 5530. Possibly all the way back up again. Selling further in RTH is possible, but from my POV the least likely scenario (unless something changed which I don't understand). I'm long 5450.25. Stop at 43. May take another stab if I'm stopped out before hitting the sack. Could be that we need to go a bit lower first, so only testing the waters here with minimum size. PS: I saw the questions about the accounts and I'll just let that question be unanswered for now. I regret not posting yesterday's number instead as that was the BIG one. LOL. Only reason I posted it was because @Picaso asked about the result today and I now regret posting it because I knew there would be questions.
1st trading day of the year so far in 2024. SPX. Avg. change is actually negative. 50/50 pos./neg. and only one biggie. So no, 1st trading day of the month is not usually very bullish.
Added one on this pullback and tightened up the stop a bit. I "know" tomorrow will most likely see a (big) recovery, so I'll just hold here. I just "hope" I won't get shaken out overnight without being able to get back in. Could get another deep dip first. Only God knows. Now we pray.