Good to hear. My week sucked. 1) AAPL diagonal (155/157). Had a gain of 30 and swung 60 cents to a 30 credit on 2,300 contracts. 2) IB saw fit to close a portion of a box arb... at a 25 cent loss. I'll have to go to arbitration if they don't stop acting stupid. 3) Quotes just GONE for large portions of the week. TDA and others were fine.
I am down 5% for 2019 (IRA. Work up 1.8%). The diagonals in AAPL are for today's LTD and the following two weeks.
Based on my backtesting, January (for at least how I trade) is often difficult, especially the first two weeks.
This week was positive, still down for January a bit, but cut my losses in half based on this weeks performance. As I have been saying 2 weeks left for the month and a whole year to go to hit my goal. First two weeks of the year based on my backtesting for how I trade is typically a bit difficult. Two goals this year, develop a sounds options system to deploy by 4th quarter, and produce more then I did last year with my futures system. MTD/YTD (-2.21%)
I'm surprised Dest took NFLX long at $350 or whatever it was. After that announcement it seemed a pretty obvious sell the news going into the earnings report.
I swear Jan is always a difficult month. Lots of churn as the largest players manipulate the market to establish six month to 18 month positions. But what the hell do I know, could just be randomness.