Monday, 3. July 2017 - holymoly

Saturday was a great day for my real money accounts.
Not so much for the day trading practice.

Plus500
After all the losses recently i decided to make this purely my volatility account.
So whenever VXX spikes ill short it in here because of the leverage.
Other than that i wont be trading in here anymore.
The spreads are just too wide and its hard to make profits like this.

Ill shift my futures trading to Tastyworks where ill be trading the respective ETFs first until i have enough capital for the actual futures.

Tastyworks
Great day.
QQQ didnt bounce back much today and premium decayed nicely.
I started trading some commodity ETFs like CORN and WEAT and im happy that im doing this in here.
Lets see how this goes.

Thinkorswim
For once the options overpowered the weed stocks and turned a small loss into a small gain.
Nice.
I have also put through the transfer request to shift half the accounts money over to Tastyworks.
I will keep this account open though with a very small amount of money, just to be able to access the charts and scans.

ToS Papertrading
The options swing trades are working out nicely.
Im constantly amazed by the steadyness the Tastytrade system seems to be working.
Day trading didnt go well this time.
I bought CBI in to a weak open looking for a bounce.
But when it didnt bounce i didnt respect the stops and held for way too long.
That was mainly due to the fact that its not real money.
Otherwise i think i would have definitely cut the loss.
First down day in papertrading today. One out of five, thats not too bad of a ratio.

Ill start posting charts for trades soon.
Thatll be nice additional info.

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