Trading diary

Even though not all accounts have been green today, im quite happy with the way things are going. Tastyworks Red today because of some single positions but in general im happy because the QQQ trades are working out very nicely. Was able to take off a vertical for a nice profit and a Iron Condor is very close to be taken off as well. Also took off a small XOP vertical. Now looking to get short oil stocks in some way short term. Thinkorswim Green today because of WHEAT calls and weed stocks being good to me today. The wire out to Tastyworks has been confirmed, so this account will become less important soon. Plus500 No action today. Its crazy how the indexes are not corellated at all today so id think that at some point this might converge again, meaning SPY, DIA and IWM will probably have to follow QQQ down a bit. Im waiting for that move as volatilitiy will rise with it and ill get a opportunity to short VXX nicely. ToS papertrade Day trading went well. Had a small loss in NKE, mainly ...

We got volatility back eh? holymoly. I was so angry yesterday that i didnt post anything. But today im back. Plus500 I had forgotten about a GTC limit order in IWT that got triggered yesterday and was down a bit. So over night ive set a stop really close so that if it goes any higher, it would kick it out. Turns out the market is crazy right now and it turned into a nice winner which im not planning on taking off just yet. Im looking on shorting more VXX again soon. Hopefully this wasnt just another 1 day spike. Doesnt feel like a 1 day spike. I also traded some oil over night. Working much better, now that i have some kind of system with stops and limit orders instead of always going in with a market order. Turned out to be a small winner, but it was good practice in working with stops and moving them up. They do have a trailing stop feature on plus500 i want to try that one next time. ToS Slightly down, but not much. Mainly due to weed stocks and my short VXX position but that one i ...

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...

Today i finally realized that this weird market is my fault! Clearly it must be! It must be because the market is clearly going out of its way to do the exact opposite of what it trade. Even on a day where the broad market is turning down, /NQ rallies 50 points, which means i took quite a bit of a downturn in my Tastyworks account. Anyway, here we go. Plus500 CFDs AUD/USD finally seems to turn around and make my position profitable after going against me quite a bit. Wheat is stalling/taking a breather but at this point, all i hope for is to get out even. Tastyworks My RUT calendar is working out nicely however the ADBE earnings play fell flat so far, even though it dropped nicely after its initial highs, so maybe we will see another step down tomorrow. I put on another earnings play in ORCL. A small butterfly with very little risk but it looks like this one is not working out either as it seems to have rallied hard post earnings. Other positions are fine, CORN is bothering me but othe...

Good start into the week! CFD - Plus500 I shorted a bit of /NQ last night and it dropped nicely. I feel like a lot of trades im doing are chasing trades when someting is moving a lot. I think the reason why they seem to work out is because the size/margin in Plus500 is so high that i can scalp the smallest of moves for a profit. After that i also went short Silver and GBP/USD which are both green today and i bought COP on a alert by the trading safely guys. That one is working out nicely as well. ToS Weed stocks moved up while Corn took a hit. Overall the P/L are green for today but im glad im not putting on more positions in here. Tastyworks Corn lost here as well of course but since thats a very long term trade im not too afraid about it yet. I put on a put calendar in IWM and a short call spread in QQQ just to get my beta weighted Delta back to neutral. The account is down a bit but i feel confident that by managing Deltas, Theta and Vega properly ill be able to beco...