I would be up 11% without the arb liquidation and the 2300 lot in AAPL. Perfect storm on that one. No excuses; just stating where the losses occurred. I am long the AAPL Feb1/8 62/67 diagonal from an average credit of $0.60.
Yeah, worst was 24 cents off of value. Timber Hill went to bat for me during the OCC vs. RAES bandit days, but thanks, I can lose money all by myself. I don't need any help from my clearing firm. Just found this story in Barron's: https://www.barrons.com/articles/SB990117695657551270 And the two-factor BS with IBTWS. I mean, c'mon. I can't login to my account via iPad or phone and have two sessions open? WTF is going to have access to my quotes... but me. A la carte pricing on everything. TDA has given me free quotes for decades; even when there was only a few grand in there and dormant for over a year.
Year to date this week Just grinding, thats all I do. My results are typically not correlated with stocks as 1/8th of what I trade is equity indexes. On to the next week...sometimes I just can't wait to the next month starts as I am very much monthly focused. One massively positive aspect of this month is I have not made a single mistake in my systematic entrances and exits, 100% correct execution this month, that's another goal I have. Last year I would make about 4 mistakes a month, If I can cut that down to 1 or none per month, results should be better this year compared to last.
Having yet again a lackluster RED week. At one point I had paired my MTD losses to about (2.5), now I'm (5%). A red January. Had a beautiful short on NQ's today.... can you take a guess where I was stopped out....6720...bastards I was at one point up 40 handles in that trade looking for 90 handles. Then Crude oil....just getting my ask kicked on that squeeze. Pain makes you grow. Down 5% is not out of the norm though, even down 10% is not horrific, at least the way I trade. My target is still north of 100% this year, still confident I get there. Looking to buy Crude futures at 53.00, looking to Short Euro futures at 1.1499... I don't like calling trades out because 60% of the time I'm wrong or out at BE+1.... but these trades should work given the crap stretch I have had.