Recent content by Matt_K74

6:30 (mountain time) Start trading platforms and pairs/option system. If it's not a major news day (fed, cpi, jobless claims ...)[i check marketwatch economic calendar] also start a day trading system. Launch final analysis step for pairs trades - launch jobs to auto-download quotes and run...

weight: 177 fitness: F - talking about painful - may have cracked two ribs moving furniture into the new rental - in serious pain without meds right now. Weekly P&L -6670 - outlier days are not my friend - things are more deteriorating than improving right now but i'm mostly pissed that i'm in...

Still confident - these outlier days are painful. I make money from little moves and noise in the market - if there is an actual signal I often get crushed. Having said that usually the option premium gain accounts for these monster move days but today it didn't. Same with pairs trades - they...

weight: 178 fitness: B Followed plan all day and still sucked. Got my work cut out for me this month. Daily P&L -7794 - equal split - pairs trades lost 4167 - options lost the rest

It's hard to define what "works" means. Here's the data i have: It works most days, it works most month, it works most years. It's highly skewed towards small winners and large losers. It usually works better than putting a similar amount of $$$ into the S&P. It didn't work last year, it didn't...

weight: 178 fitness: B Followed plan all day and day went in my direction - could have done without the end of day rally. Daily P&L 2574 - all from options - pairs trades lost -737 today. I need to start distributions from my trading account - otherwise I'll run out of money in Feb 2024 - so...

weight: 178 fitness: B weed/alcohol: Stopped yesterday - hope it'll last for a while Daily P&L -1739 - Pairs trades made 4957 today, all losses came from option trades (not a surprise since direction and volatility went the wrong way)

I'm willing to try - do you have some specific examples (what to change or how to think differently about my identity)?

S&P EMinis - 5 lots - minute charts but that didn't matter - or another way to look at trimeframe is - until the 3000 were gone and i hated myself

weight: 174 fitness: B weed/alcohol: Using heavily - shit week across the board, work, trading and money wise. I'm buying a second short term rental and from colorado secretary of state company registration to me saying good bye to 600 grand took the best of me. Savings are down to 200k after...

weight: 174 fitness: B weed/alcohol: Using - I know I see the same correlation but in my heads it's a heads heads tails situation - not that uncommon sleep: C Weekly P&L -1626 Increased size too quickly - got killed on Wednesday and Friday - big movers are killing my trading. Had a real good...

weight: 173 fitness: F - rough week at work and at home weed/alcohol: Not Using sleep: D - couple nights on the road in shitty beds Weekly P&L 17565 Reduced trading size a lot after CPI - this could have been a bigger gain. Trading is easy when vol and direction match :)

weight: 173 fitness: A weed/alcohol: Not Using sleep: A Weekly P&L 15938 Gotta love January - firing on all cylinders - let's see how long I can keep this up (also a accommodating market that helped quite a bit)

weight: 177 fitness: C weed/alcohol: Using sleep: C Weekly P&L 125 - sideways week, yearly P&L $-69598 - sucks. Bye Bye 2022 - I won't miss you. I'm adding some funds to my account - mainly cause I'm over leveraged and want to have more margin cushion. I will start next year with 1.35M. This...

weight: 175 fitness: F - still sick but somehow managed to kill it in a zwift race today after not being on the bike for two weeks weed/alcohol: Using sleep: A Weekly P&L -954 had a strong Monday and Friday but got killed yesterday (-19557) Next week is year end accounting - I plan to start...