Lets hope not. The purpose of this journal: I am always looking at ways to reduce/minimize my risk. I am a sole person operation and was thinking to myself what would happen lets say I was in a car crash and in a coma for a month or something. This would cause real carnage most likely on my options/futures positions. So I mentioned this to my eldest daughter (graduated uni last year having done a bachelor of business specializing in HR not finance) to see is she would be willing to take on the role of closing out all positions. She thought why not go the hole hog and show her how it all works and how I trade. Okkkkkk I said with hesitation but thought to myself that I reckon females make better traders anyway. So this is where we are at 5 months in having explained about how the markets work, what a future is, what an option is and so for. How it will be laid it going forward: - Anything in blue writing will be new info added that day. - The positions visual table is self explanatory and an example is below. - Analysis is done on the XJO chart and instruments traded will be xjo options and spi futures which are both derivatives based on the xjo symbol. - xjo options are $10/contract/point and spi futures are $25/contract/point. - Roadmap: will be a guide on where the market will/will not trade up to a certain period. Where stats are kept for some guidance a % confidence factor will be noted after it. - Dates: there will dates entered on the day that a comment, trade etc is placed in the journal and will stay there until that entry is removed. - She will place all trades and it will be her decisions based on what she has learned. Obviously I will not let her blow up my account but she gets to keep whatever she makes as her effort. - I will be making all the comments in here but if she does decide to put anything in she will sign off by saying Miss J. Wish her luck I know I am
Summary XJO 7154 SPI 7167 New Today: 2 new trades Note: Soz these trades were actually from yesterday Positions Visual: Positions List: 25/5 - sell 2 June 15th calls at 24 25/5 - sell 1 June 15th put at 60 Orders: None Roadmap: Nothing yet
So if someone Posts and signs off "Miss J", we know you're in a Coma somewhere. Lets hope we never hear from Miss J. Best of luck with the Trading too!
Lol no she is a busy young lady so only if she has time she might write something. She wanted something she could look back on if needed when this little experiment is well and truly done.
Buy side options is not a game worth regularly playing. Trade 1 micro e-mini futures contract (but NOT the MES) within the first 2.5 hours of RTH and see what 200+ trades reveal about your ability level.
No options have been bought yet bro. Dax is much better to trade than ES. ES is algo'd within an inch of its life
Summary XJO 7217 SPI 7231 New Today: 1 new trades, 1 new roadmap guidance Note: Portfolio delta is 1 so pretty neutral Positions Visual: Positions List: 25/5 - sell 2 June 15th calls at 24 25/5 - sell 1 June 15th put at 60 29/5 - sell 1 June 15th put @ 35 Orders: None Roadmap: 29/5 We shouldn't get a decent close below 7130 anytime before 15/6 .. 48% confidence
Summary XJO 7091 SPI 7104 New Today: 1 new trade, 1 new order Note: Portfolio delta is 6 but will look to turn negative with a sell order on the spi Positions Visual: Positions List: 25/5 - sell 2 June 15th 7300 calls @ 24 25/5 - sell 1 June 15th 7125 put @ 60 29/5 - sell 1 June 15th 7150 put @ 35 31/5 - sell 1 June 15th 7225 call @ 20 31/5 - buy 1 June 15th 6900 put @ 22 Orders: sell 1 spi at 7115 or better Roadmap: 29/5 We shouldn't get a decent close below 7130 anytime before 15/6 .. 48% confidence wrong