Journal of trader um (aka traderum)

Ok, here the screenshots:

First, the account screenshot (but as said above this is not the final result!):

 

Here's the screenshot of the said 2 close orders for the CBY options before logging out:

 

Here is the chart of the underlying (CBY):

 

And here the significant Times&Sales data for the said CBY option strike
to show that the said 2 orders have been executed as the market price has crossed the 2 order prices..:
Beware: here the times are in EST, all other times are usually in my local (CET). I have not managed yet to use local time inT&S.

 

Now I must (manually) calculate the final result...

 

Ok, I get a result of 603840.06 minus some commission (~ $500 or so) as the final account value.

That is: the profit of yesterday's action is then about $103340 (20.67%),
ie. the above value minus the initial acct value (500k).

(If someone gets a different result so let me know pls)

Phheew.. that was really a hard trade!

As can be seen I made a loss with the CBY stock (because I needed that capital for buying options of CBY). And the options finally made big profit whereby also eliminating the previous losses from the (forced) selling of the stock.
Ie. I just applied an emergency strategy in a worst-case scenario to prevent making losses. It worked!

 

Which one are you?

 

With your profits, maybe you can buy a copy of this: http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Star Tr...vanced Holodeck Tutorial Game Gear:1951001576

 

Yeah, makes sense, I'm a big SF fan

 

I think the end of gold has come (ie. it reached its peak),
so I'm short in gold...