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3 Trades, no success. Was looking for a renewal of the all day uptrend after a pullback toward the end of the day. Market was tired and it never came close to a EOD rally. If I had passed on these trades however, the market would have blasted to new EOD highs. here are the trades...

Metooxx, I must admit the first 2 option/stock "straddles" were pretty off the wall. :confused: But the BAC spread is a very conventional bear spread. The OMC short with a protective call is a common type of trade too. If you see any obvious flaws in the implementation, I would...

You are correct, I did figure that the delta was close enough to .5 to suit my purposes. I was counting on a breakdown of the stocks over the next few days... that did not happen. But I still could have gotten out with less damage by being a little more clever with my exits. All that...

As soon as my journal is successful, I am gonna start a chatroom... :D

OK.. My first foray into options hasn't worked out exactly according to Hoyle, but everyone starts somewhere. The first 2 trades that I closed out today could have been even or mayby just a teenie winner IF I had been paying closer attention. I have put on a couple of additional...

Didn't do any regular hours daytrades today. Did OK in opening orders (see Don's journal) AND..... ....did some more option work. (See the options Forum)

1 Fill, short ZMH +.65, Managed it OK this time, got about as much out of it as I deserved.. :p

Found a couple of good trades Thursday. Didn't post, was busy setting up E-signal. Gonna give it another try, (this is my fourth sign on to E-signal I think). here are the trades.. sorry , no charts today, it is 5:00 in the morning, gotta get busy with opening orders. (did OK there too...

Thursday, Jenny fooled me... :( JNY short -.05, started my way, then went backwards. That is a pretty sure way to get me out, since I figure if I am stuck a little, I can soon be stuck a lot. If the bid and ask are stuck at 1 X 1, and the last time and sales are against you...

The charts..

Just another frustrating day. The one trade that actually worked, I wanted just a bit more out of it, it started coming back.. until... you guessed it, ..I sold it,...then it went merrily past my original target... leaving me seething. :mad: My wife thinks I am crazy. I think I agree...

Well, They won't let us shoot them.. :(

Scratch morning.. FRE short -.15.. went my way just a bit, then had a gap up, panicked out at the top. It went on to make a nice short.. CB was watching the opening inducators, when it indicated way past my short, went to cancel, Oops.. too late... CB short, +.15 canceled quickly...

Ouch... :eek:

Not much of a day here. FDC long -.16, and darn glad I took a hike when I did. XOM long -.04, see above, S short +.40, it had looked weak, but started backing up some, so I jumped off before the numbers came out. Sure would have made out if I had been daring enough to hold for...

Slowed my trading even more today. One trade... not counting opening orders. But.... I was still going the wrong way. :( Jeesh.. it is so clear just 2 min AFTER I enter that I should have gone the other way. But I cannot, for the life of me, see it in time. And when I am even...

Mine :D

OK, HERE are the charts.

Slowed my trading way down today. Had a decent opening orders day, just wanted to try to add to it with a more careful trade selection. The C trade would have paid off at 1:1, but I really wanted to hold for more. Unfortunately, it paid too many visits to my buy point, I figured C was...

1 fill, TGT short +.55