Trading diary

I didnt post yesterday because despite it being a green day it wasnt spectacular and i didnt put on any new trades or anything like that. But today i finally got to put on my first trades with Tastyworks. Im so happy that this is finally working! I was a day one waitlist people but because im in NZ i had to wait until now to get going. I put on a SPY calendar for $230. Front month is 43DTE so im going quite far out with it but i kind of think that the market will go just a liittle bit further up before it comes down and volatility will speed up a bit, so that seems to be a nice setup. I had also tried to buy a few CORN calls which didnt get filled unfortunately. Ill give it another try tomorrow. I like the ABCD pattern thats forming there and from what i read the fundamentals look really good for a nice rise. ToS The weed stocks for once were flat and the options positions actually gave me a bit of a gain. CORN is working out well, X is working out well, TTD is volatile as F*...

I made a mistake in my CFD account yesterday during the day (NZ day). I wanted to short Gold as the chart really looked good and i thought its due for a step down, looking at the longer term charts. So i set up the trade on Plus500 and pressed the button. Right away i realized i had forgotten to put in my custom position size and had just left in the Plus500 standard size. So instead of my usual 20 ounces of Gold, i had shorted 200 ounces. I couldnt take it off right away because the spread that Plus500 makes its money with had put my position $70 in the red. (Thats also the reason why i only want to stay with CFDs as long as i have to be able to have a account big enough to pass the PDT rule. Anyways, i was at work and i had stuff to do so i monitored it only sporadically, which is another mistake, but it was going my way and was up about $150 after just a few minutes. So i kept it on and watched it go to $350 before i had to focus on work and left it unmonitored for about 2h. Next ti...