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Progress Report 51 What has been keeping me busy today: University. Community Events. How has the portfolio done today: Continuing Trades (Open Before Today): TQQQ Covered Call. 100 Shares TQQ @ 95.2 (long) Raw Daily P&L +$322 100 TQQ JUL27’20 95 CALL @ 7.98 (short) Raw Daily P&L: -$200...

Progress Report 50 Bearish Wolf What has been keeping me busy today: Making a new P&L worksheet. Reading up on "small traders" regulation. Diving deeper into the "OMIB" model. How has the portfolio done today: Continuing Trades (Open Before Today): TQQQ Covered Call. 100 Shares TQQ @...

Progress Report 49 What has been keeping me busy today: University. Exam coming up next week (the last one before summer!). Learning about small trader regulation. How has the portfolio done today: Continuing Trades (Open Before Today): TQQQ Covered Call. 100 Shares TQQ @ 95.2 (long) P&L...

Progress Report 48 What has been keeping me busy today: Making a list of proprietary trading firms in the Netherlands. Set up of couple in regard to my operations that allow me to move leaner and faster. Now I am fully loaded (again) for the new challenges that I am looking up to. New paper...

Progress Report 46 Bearish Wolf Progress Report What has been keeping me busy today: Taking the day off. First real day off in almost two months. How has the portfolio done today: Continuing Trades (Open Before Today): TQQQ Covered Call. 100 Shares TQQ @ 95.2 (long) 100 TQQ JUL27’20 95...

Progress Report 45 What has been keeping me busy today: Creating a new cover image for LinkedIn. I kind of like it. By the way, I did not design all of it, I just stitched together some icons I found online. How has the portfolio done today: Continuing Trades (Open Before Today): UVXY...

Progress Report 44 Bearish Wolf What has been keeping me busy today: University mostly. Prepared and wrote an exam today. Crushed it. Mental Mathematics. Stopped learning strategies, now applying them. Progress curve in regards to time per exercise is going incredibly quick. (As expected)...

Progress Report 42 Bearish Wolf What has been keeping me busy today: University mostly. Preparing for an exam on Wednesday. Writing a new blogspot on strategies for mental maths. (See it here, draft version) How has the portfolio done today: Continuing Trades (Open Before Today): SHOP...

Progress Report 42 Bearish Wolf What has been keeping me busy today: University mostly. Preparing for an exam on Wednesday. Opening up new trades. How has my portfolio done today: Open (before today): SHOP Nov20’20 800 CALL (long). Daily P&L +7.76% Total P&L: +51.51% Opened today...

Progress Report 41 I have been thinking for quite some time now about what is the best step moving forwards to meet my goals in the fastest manner. The decision right now is concerns my time commitment to trading during my last year at university. Finishing my master by summer 2021 is one of my...

Progress Report 40 Bearish Wolf Short update today. I spent practicing mental mathematics, and then a big part of the day (5 hours) were spent talking with a friend about options and sharing my future strategies with him.

Progress Report 39 Putting the last finishing touches to the momentum strategy part of my trading. I needed to have a screener for stocks with high momentum and high liquidity, and I am getting there. From then on, it will be testing, testing, testing. Having learnt from options these last...

Progress Report 38 Bearish Wolf trading June 18, 2020 1 Minute These progress reports are getting shorter and shorter. Thing is, the main things that I am doing in now is deepening my knowledge on the basis on what I have learnt the past weeks. So there is nothing "new" to report, but plenty...

Progress Report 37 Bearish Wolf I focused today further in the Black-Scholes, and I can proudly say that I understand most of the basics of it, including the greeks. Everything was incredibly easy to understand, and I think that this comes due to experience having traded (paper) options for...

Progress Report 36 Bearish Wolf I learned today from yesterday, closed all bearish positions and opened bullish on the UDOW and SHOP. UDOW is leveraged 3X the DJI to be able to get some profit out of those basis points movements of the index. I entered this positions with only a call. I...

Progress Report 35 Bearish Wolf Well, would you look at who lost his shirt today: me. The bear spreads in a bull market. Yea, that was definitely a perfect idea. Two main things things learnt from this: I was estimating an x% move on the securities I was betting on, both on the upside and...

Progress Report 34 Bearish Wolf I mentioned yesterday that I would be reading up on the book by Natenberg. Well, no, I decided I am not doing that. I am taking it as a reference, for sure, but I am taking a shortcut to learn option pricing: just reading up on lecture notes. I have been lucky...

Progress Report 33 Bearish Wolf Small update today. I spent much of the time today looking at two things: option pricing and momentum. To learn about the theory of option pricing, I am going to tackle the book by Natenberg, but I felt that some structure was important. For this, I found a...

Progress Report 32 Bearish Wolf A lot of action happened in the market today. At the beginning of the day, it started rallying, but then it lost momentum and finished a bit lower. However, the SPX still higher than yesterday by less than a percentage point. The bear spreads I am holding did...

Progress Report 31 Bearish Wolf So many things happened today. And not the best ones. Let’s start: markets crashed today. Given that I had three bear spreads and one bull spread, you would expect I did well. Well, I did not. So this is how it started. At the beginning of the day, I was...