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EOD. I missed a lot of good opportunities. But I didn't like the action. I can see some places where I could have justified the trade and I'll take note of them to see if I want to start trading those setups.

Me vs the Market- Watching the Rally pass me by:

So True... Even now, I put them on sometimes just to look at (especially on day bars) and it's like... The Math Gods knew... they knew! In fact, if you draw a fib right now from the high of the first bar of trading to the low of the next (5 min bars) that big red bar (9:45est) is bouncing off...

Nah. I just go off of price action, SMA, and S/R. I used to use Fibs but it was with a bunch of other things. I took everything off, rebuilt from scratch and kept the basics. I might put fibs back in when I don't have any levels to play off of but for now I'm keeping it as simple as possible.

Closed @5.12 For what I was expecting, this seemed a little too weak. This is an early close but We'll see if it's justified. Edit: Yeah... should have held for the rest of the bar. That's something I need to work on. But these days have so much extra punch I've been getting out at the first...

Finally some life. "Shorting" here and if it goes down, it should go down hard. Bot +2 QQQ 17 Apr 196.5 Puts @4.93 Went with 2 contracts instead of one: same delta, more spice.

Wednesday 4/8 Dear Diary, Looks like a quiet start for the day, right at the meat of yesterday's action. Going to try and format this journal in a more pleasant way so that it's not just boring fills but also more thoughts on my open and close reasoning so when I look back at this I can see...

Cls @16.23. Should have closed earlier.

Bot 213 Put @15.68

Cl @14.46. Just bad action against the whole time. Fun stuff.

Bot +1 QQQ 17 Apr 20 2015 Put @15.38 That'd be sweet if this fills the gap.

Marks were 193.7 and 193.99 respectively. I bought 90 delta, but only made 16 vs a theoretical 26. Vol going down for that expiration set? Probably. Maybe we should be trying spreads if the options are this close to expiration?

CLS @12.39 I'm happy about the trade, but the slippage is kind of brutal.

BOT 182 Call @12.23

CLS @ 12.95 Hit my target. So far it's still going up but I only have 1 contract :/ Up a lot after I closed, actually. Ain't that always the case- when you get out, that's when it leaves you in the dust. When I expand to two contracts, we'll catch these moves past our targets.

New Week, same game. Buy 1 QQQ 9 Apr 178 Call @12.51

EOD Missed a few opportunities but they weren't really screaming at me. Let's see what Monday brings.

9:14:51 Cls @13.56 Oof. I tried to get 13.64 but it slipped away and then I adjusted then I think I could have gotten it.

BTW I'm west coast

9:10:20 196 Put @13.33 Kind of iffy on this but we'll see.