Trading diary

Had a great Friday. Gold went down nicely and with the drop in equities, all of the other accounts did well too. Was quite happy. Then today came along and while im not super red today, it felt meh. Plus500 CFDs Put on a few positions last night, short Gold and Silver and took off some of the energy shorts as i think Oil might want to bounce here. Also shorted AFL which went against me over night. First it looked like Gold/Silver might make up for the loss, but its lunchtime now and Silver is bouncing and Gold came back up a bit as well. Im going to keep holding though as they both have broken key resistances and i see a bit more downside. Tastyworks I added a skewed iron condor in QQQ, taking advantage of the high implied volatility especially compared to the SPY and DIA. Also added a short put spread in XOP. Im pretty short in here now and i think i want to add some long delta in form of a short call spread in VIX or something like that, just to hedge a bit of the risk as overall i s...

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...