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Hi Chuck, Anything in particular you're looking for in a chart ? (no problem if you don't want to share too much publicly) Be careful with the extra stress that comes with posting real-time entries. Anyway, good luck with this journal. JP

as a follow up: stoploss levels for HD / KO / WFC -48% on that position Broke through stop level and the daily bar closed back above it. Was sold prematurely. -45% on that position. Stop was clearly breached. -57% on that position. (not 100% sure this calculation is correct but I take .63 as...

I feel you. I started to journal everything in detail, to make the problem visible. But it seems you made that conclusion already. I feel you even more... In the end I was so sick of it (after years) that I just completely gave up on countertrend trading. Here's what I do: I wait for a trend...

Looking back in hindsight to yesterday. Those trades triggered stop loss levels, which somehow made me sell at the worst possible time. Only to recover above those levels at the end of the day. Anyway, it's more a daytrader kind of market now (imo). Daily swings are great. JP

sold @-0.695 (stock price was ~47.57) sold @0.66 (stock price was ~52.86) sold @2.40 (stock price was ~2.40) Taking my losses on those... JP

The weekly graph is continuing to the downside. Looks like a bit of a panic on the daily even. JP

Sold again @2.45 (SPY was ~294.40) since we're at the level again I posted on Saturday. P/L on this trade: +42% All my positions are red today but this one makes more then up for it today. (Though I shouldn't daytrade) JP

Bought (again) SPY Oct7'19 295 PUT. @1.70 (SPY was ~296.10) I need some short in my port. Don't like this downthrust today. The daily graph still looks vulnerable to more down today. JP

Bought T Oct11'19 38/37.5 Bull Put for a credit of -0.31 = (Sold T Oct11'19 38 Put @0.89 / Bought T Oct11'19 37.5 Put @0.58) Stock price was ~37.78 JP

The S/R level I was referring to earlier on Thursday. Tried to sell the SPY put close to that. JP

Sold again @2.65 (SPY was ~295.22) P/L on this trade: +16% It's probably a bit early to sell yet, but I'd rather not hold this through the weekend. Meanwhile the weekly S&P graph has this ugly rollover down kinda look. JP

Bought HD Nov15'18 235 Call @4.60 (stock was ~230.69) JP

Bought SPY Oct7'19 295 PUT. (SPY was ~296.30) @2.28 The S&P looks vulnerable here to me. I don't quite like the daily graph. I don't plan to hold it for more than a couple of days. Will keep an eye on this with special attention to yesterdays lows, which is very close to 2940 (august...

Long KO Nov15'19 55 Call @1.17 (stock price was ~54.38) BIDU was on the long list but missed that yesterday, not going to run after it. Although still potential. JP

Back somewhat later than expected. But nevertheless. Did some extra study'n'sim. Trying to pick it up where I left off. Bought WFC Oct18'19 49.5/48.5 Bull Put for a credit of -0.37 Stock price was ~49.45 Vertical (& diagonal) spreads were added to the arsenal. Together with the already used...

This was hanging around worthless in the ledger for several weeks. It's officially gone now. Full loss on that, a thing to avoid in the future. My book is empty now. See you back in august. JP

Continued from previous post... This is a "raised from the dead" kind of situation. I had actually given up on this trade. I had a limit order to sell this @ $5.30 but during the open it got executed @ $5.60. I was like:wtf:. Just got incredibly lucky. Let's just keep it at that. Very poor...

Sold this @5.60 (Sold at open ~194). P/L on this position +21% I'll post the charts on that below. JP

My first diagonal spread (live) test is coming to an end. The Jun14 puts expired worthless last Friday. SPY price was between 289-290 (see purple Arrow). The Jun17 puts will expire (worthless) today. The profit is $0.457 with a max risk of $0.543 (282/281 P) and $0.543 with a max risk of...

This is how that same situation will look next week (06/12) considering price remains constant. Theoretically it's possible to not only receive credit when opening this position but also receiving again $ when closing.o_O Just mindblowing if you ask me. I took two different spreads to have two...