Friday, 16. June 2017 - Meh

CFDs
I closed out the short sugar position for a small win and also made a quick trade in silver yesterday which was a small winner.
Overnight i opened a small short gold position which is going my way but only small as well.
Then i went long QID and shorted a stock Tim Knight mentioned in his segment that has a beautiful setup and looks like its breaking down nicely.
I think next week ill have to look into oil/energy, looking at some charts there are some nice setups.
ALSO... goddamn wheat went all the way back up and turned into what wouldve been a winner of about 2/3 of the value of what i locked in as a loss yesterday. Frustrating especially because the assumption was right, i just couldnt stomach the volatility.

ToS
CORN calls and the weed stocks pulled me down today.
Ive given up on X and will just let it expire out of the money to save the commission to close it.

Tastyworks
The short call spread in QQQ had a nice up turn today but got cancelled out by the corn calls.
I have also placed a few gtc limit orders on VXX december puts in case it spikes up when im asleep.
They are far away though but i dont want to miss out on moves anymore and i think this could be a nice way around it.

ToS papertrade
I bought back the /GC future which made a lovely profit as i managed to capture the whole 20 point move from last night.
The account is up 9% within 3-4 months now.
Lots of the positions im defending are turning into small winners or scratches as well, so its just fantastict to see that later down the road, i will be able to work a account just like this as a "safe" investment account without the volatility and uncertainty of day, swing and cfd trading.

Tonight ill stay up and practice day trading again.
I hope that i can maybe do this twice a week. Monday night (Monday morning in the US) would be great as well as it seems that a lot of day traders have their most profitable days on Mondays.

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