Wednesday, 28. June 2017 - cracks appearing

There seems to be some cracks appearing in /NQ.
Its about time!

Tastyworks
Made a nice profit today as my two QQQ positions finally found the green again.
About 50% of todays profit in this account is because of the Q's.
CCL also helped. This put spread was way too big when i put it on but at least it seems to be working out.
I have put on quite a few positions today. A Iron Condor in COST with slightly long delta and a few verticals in MCD and other underlyings.
In some trades with very short term outlook i actually bought puts outright which i know is against the Tastytrade rules but i feel like i want to see if this can work for short swing trades.
I had to realize however that ive used up almost all my buying power.
Tomorrow ill have to look at taking some winners off the plate.

Plus500 CFDs
Went long gold yesterday but it ended up dropping back a little bit.
Small position, small loss so far but im staying in it.
Hopefully Gold will rally a bit when the indexes start crumbling.

Thinkorswim
Weed stocks accounted for a small loss in here today, though its not a very significant one.
I adjusted my IYR long put spread which i set up way too big for some reason, so i rolled up the put to the ATM to collect as much extrinsic as possible.
This is a august expiration so if IYR keeps rallying im looking to roll this thing up even further.
Im currently debating where the exess money in this account should go. I think to teach myself patience i should put it into the Tastyworks account instead of the day trading one. That way i will be forced to practice a bit more before i have saved up enough money for the 6x leverage account in TradeZero.
Thats probably the prudent thing to do.

ToS papertrade
I forgot to day trade today, so i just took care of the swings.
Got a nice up move in most positions but my big short in VXX pulled the portfolio down a bit.
At least i might be able to take off the puts i sold against it soon if we get a bit more volatility.
Im up over 10% for the year now (started trading on Feb 28, so thats only 4 months), this experiment is going great!
With volatility coming back these numbers should look even better soon.

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