Trading diary

Took another downturn in my ToS account today. Weed stocks accounted for about 2/3 of it. I also had bought a $5 wide call vertical in TTD after it had come up in the IU swing trading chat. I looked at the chart and the 60min looked like a perfect ABCD pattern. I think TTD is not liquid enough to sell spreads but i guess i was too greedy and possibly also ignored some of the Tastytrade setup rules because of that. In any way, despite TTD rising nicely, the spread accounted for almost all of the rest of the loss today. In general, my ToS account has been turning down recently, but i hope i can transfer a lot of money over to TW (tastyworks) soon so i can finally build a lasting account and hopefully soon get over $25k to get a bit more freedom with naked options as well as getting rid of the pattern day trading rule. Not much news in the CFD account. All positions lost a little bit because VXX had a up day. Patience here. I didnt add any other positions yet. With VIX dabbling around 10 ...

I overslept today. I forgot to set my alarm which i had turned off on my vacation last week. Luckily i dont have too many positions on. In my CFD account i only have three short VXX positions at -100 "shares" each. They are all green between $90-115 each. I usually want to get around $150 out of these so hopefully ill get there by the end of the week. I didnt put any new positions on because VXX moved lower. If it has a up day, thats when ill start scaling in again. In my Thinkorswim account i lost a bit today. That is pretty normal fluctuation since i bought a substantial amount of Canadian weed stocks. I own shares of Organigram and Aphria inc. They are quite volatile. Im thinking about keeping them until i own them for over a year and then reassess if i want to keep them or sell them. Reason for the 1 year mark is because thats when the tax in case i would sell switches from short term to long term capital gains tax which is much lower. I started watching Inves...

This is a personal diary to hold myself accountable in my trading journey. I want to be able to recap what i did well and what i didnt do so well and i want to do it for the public to see. What i will be posting about is: - Options trades on Thinkorswim - Options paper swing trades on Thinkorswim - CFD trades on Plus500 - Practice paper day trading on Thinkorswim I have quite a few plans for the future. I plan on keeping the CFD stuff going only until i have enough capital to trade actual stocks. CFDs are actually not what i want to trade because its basically betting on stuff instead of trading it. The only good thing is that they give me way more leverage than other methods so i hope to grow the account to around $50'000 and then move it all over. I also just opened a account with Tastyworks which i will use as my main trading platform. It will take a bit of time though to close out all my positions in my Thinkorswim account and move that money over. I also think i want to keep T...