LOL not really I was on the wrong side of it had 12 MNQ contracts short yesterday watched a huge winner turn into a bit of a loser, right now just trying to put out fires on everything else I own, so staying market neutral on the QQQ for the time being, and adding on rips and buying some shortsd out into dips, got greedy yesterday should have taking some off into the 20k area, but i totally thought if it gets through 20k it is going tyo 19k on the NQ, it will get there eventually but not without a fight.
LOL and the Trump Rug Pull again today, now they say they are going to wait on Tariffs, Lifted the Hedge see if we can get an up day, Happy I took off half at the bottom today, yesterday did nothign and watched the whole short melt down lol what a market.
LOL, believe me you dont need to warn me about the stresses of being a trader for a living thats why I wanted to get into wealth management to alleviate some that, but when the market is like this you either have to revert to making money from trading or just stand by and watch your account get bleed out while your living off of it during a down turn.
Short into this lets see what happens. Wasnmt expecting 500 to hold on the QQQ's Admittedly this one is a bad loss.
On a market down turn, like a severe one, yes usually everything gets hit but it doesn't last too long. Imo when there's a prolonged bear market usually something / a sector somewhere is climbing. My theory is big money somewhere wants to be contrarian and buying and pushing a sector up. Another way of looking at it, there'll be times when you are positioned correctly and scooping up money like krill as a whale, then it will dry up a tad later, so then just gotta live with it as it don't last long the dry period.
There's always going to be pain in trading, so a decision needs to be made, do I want the pain of day trading or the pain of swing trading.