Tuesday, 27. June 2017 - More of the same

Plus500
I held some Gold and Silver over the weekend and yesterday shortly after the open they both spiked lower sharply for no reason whatsoever. Apparently had something to do with liquidity.
I have lost quite a bit of money in this account now and ive decided that im going to try to get back to what was my initial investment and then get the money out of here and put it either into Tastyworks or start live day trading small as i seem to be much better at that.

Tastyworks
Today was a great day in TW. QQQ down, Oil and SPY up and the shorts in UNP and CCL are paying off as well.
I tried selling a iron condor in COST today but didnt get filled, so tomorrow im going to give that another shot just to try and take advantage of the high IV Rank.
I really hope the Nasdaq is coming down a bit more as this is currently my biggest position.

Thinkorswim
IYR is giving the gains back again, should have taken it off.
Ah well, cant loose too much here.
Soon i will have enough capital freed up to move it over to either Tastyworks or a new day trading account which i will elaborate on later.

ToS papertrading
I didnt day trade last night because i had to get up earlier today and im trying to get a proper amount of sleep, but in here things went well too. I got filled on a strangle in COST which went really well and ill try to take off tomorrow right away.

As for the day trading ive mentioned.
Im planning on opening a account with TradeZero as they allow very small deposits, offer a good amount of leverage and still arent restricted by the pattern day trading rule. Perfect to get started.
I want to deposit a very small amount to get started hopefully by the time im back from Switzerland.
That way i have time to practice more and get things set up, and i think trading small and not having much money on the line will help with mechanics and getting used to the software.
Also, with 6:1 leverage ill still have a decent amount of capital to trade with.

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