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Progress Report 11 So today I managed to get the first draft of my essay for university done. If you remember, I had set myself a deadline on Sunday, but finished two days in advance. Perfect. More time for trading for the following days. However, the next tough cookie is finishing my thesis...

Progress Report 10 Major strides done today. I have managed to get my first three goals to closure. This does not necessarily mean I followed them and executed them to the tee, but I did pursue them to the point where I gathered enough information to ‘close’ them and decide on new steps...

Progress Report 9 No substantive progress on options trading today. I spent most of the day focused on trying to get the first assignment (the essay) done. I managed to get more than halfway through, so we are well on our way to get it done by the end of this week. I will try, however, to get...

Today was a slow day for options. I stayed most of the day focused on topics related to my studies. In that regard, however, the day was very efficient. My objective right now is to have my two assignments done as soon as possible. The first one has a deadline around the middle of June, but I...

Progress Report 7 After yesterday, I realized that I am not using my time efficiently. I spend too much time in distractions that take me away from my goals and that are completely irrelevant. The first time sink I identified, for example, is that I spend way too much time fixing my Spotify...

Progress Report 6 Today, I managed to get some reading done regarding trading mindset and price indicators. In regards to trading mindset, I am currently reading "The Inner Voice Of Trading", which is a quite light read and pretty funny/enjoyable. Moreover, I also started with "The Traders’...

I would short BA. That is my stock of the day. I am not sure when would be the correct moment to place the trade, but if you were already thinking of shorting an index, why not better short Boeing, which stands to lose a lot more?

Progress Report 5 Today was programming day. I started building the bases to build a whole library of tools that will eventually aid me with options trading. Note that these scripts will get a lot of performance data and current positions from my IBKR account. At the beginning I am starting...

Progress Report 4 Not a big day for trading today since I had to focus mostly on writing my thesis. I wish I had the whole day to just spend in trading, but I can't do it for now. Luckily I will soon have the time for it. This summer, I will put as much effort as possible in trading options, as...

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: The benchmarks are wrong. And there are many vectors to explain why this is faulty, below are a few. 1. Most funds are constructed for capital preservation, NOT for alpha generation. Let's first focus on Ray Dalio's performance, and in particular in regards to...

Progress Report 3 Today I spent some time trying to understand better the covered call strategy. Thereafter, I studied a slight modification of the covered call: the collar. The covered call is a bullish low IV strategy, which you need to ‘milk’ by entering the strategy multiple times a year...

Right now, these are my tickers. Not that I look at everything around them all the time, but I want to eventually learn their business like the palm of my hand: Indices: SPY, EEM, QQQ, TQQQ Equities: AAPL, MSFT, SHOP, JPM, XOM, BA Commodities: GLD, SLV, USO I will do report threads, that...

Fair comment, I will just post all eventual entries in this thread. I edited the post accordingly.

A short update today. It was a really long day. First of all, I managed to subscribe all my tickers to my news sources so that I have easy access to their developments. So now I have instant access to news related to them on Bloomberg, the WSJ, seekingalpha and a couple others. Besides my...

Indeed, I am loving as well right now! And there is still so much content to go through. I am a bit on the honeymoon stage, still. haha Thanks for the advice! I was hoping that the plan would work out and the car would land well. :( But indeed, anything can blow up. I have trying to be a bit...

The latter sounds more fun. ;)

A bit getting used to the functionality in the forum. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hey everyone, I was reading a podcast related to options trading, and they had this idea where you would post your progress card every day. The idea sounded interesting enough that I am giving it a try by posting my first ever progress report. (Yes, you guessed it, I am one of the countless...