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FROG 70 calls
Entries: 2.45
Exits: 2.95
Time to scale: 27 mins
TiT: 27 mins
20%

AMD 90 calls
Entries: 0.18
Exits: 0.29, 0.22, 0.20
Time to scale: 3 mins
TiT: 12 mins
33%

Stray thoughts:
  • One of those rare days when everything works (even the ones I considered taking but hesitated on). Literally none of my ideas failed (or would have failed). I guess the one thing I am happy about is being defensive about the AMD (not stubbornly holding through that big selling pressure from the Qs).
 
PINS 70 calls
Entries: 0.10
Exits: 0.23. 0.32. 0.38
Time to scale: 8 mins
TiT: 11 mins
210%

Stray thoughts:
  • This was what's often called "lotto" sized, so nothing to write home about, except there's always some novelty of hitting 100%+ for me.
 
I might just start posting losses only here. A lot of small winners today (PFE, AMD, a few others), many of which I cut way too early (in hindsight). So here we go with this new idea. Losers only.

SDC 12.5 calls
Entries: 0.42
Exits: 0.35, 0.34
TiT: 20 mins
-18%
 
I like sizing down on Fridays and going for these "lotto" plays.

That said, no noteworthy day trade losses to report. I will say that I cut some FB calls really early (at a ~20% profit), which was good practice/muscle memory.
 
No net losses on day trades today, though I did mis-manage 2 different longs (PINS did not cut remainder at breakeven; BIDU exited at an arbitrary point).
 
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