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If my delta1 trades weren’t working so smoothly I would’ve liquidated my ZOOMFLY today.

Flies can go from a wash to realizing profits so quickly. Once again spot is testing my lower wing ($360). Today’s price action is almost EXACTLY what I needed to happen to save this from washing. The volume that accommodated the move is also a tell tale, ZOOM wants to go up a bit more (hopefully). Most likely will exit tomorrow. Fly is currently quoted at $3.20
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Yes,very nice pop.
I don’t do flys. The volume was just average today, didn’t convince me.but I didn’t act on my instincts.

huh?

first off, volume wasn’t average, in fact it was the opposite.

secondly, you don’t need to trade a fly, you can do any combo you want
 
The concept of return on capital on TIME is on my mind. Year after year I sell for a profit. Yet it’s always almost extremely too early, with my stock trending up for months on end, while I’m penny pinching reallocated profits to other extremely early triggers. So this year I said screw it, I’m not selling. I will only sell if the low gets taken out. But as long as I have a profit, I’m just going to hold. Unless the situation warrants it, I’ll liquidate.

^^^^ referring to my stock trades obvi

It is so hard to know how far a run will go without a meaningful correction. This is the power of scaling. Scaling strategies could be weighted towards statistics on historical data or by one’s assessment of trade quality, where perhaps a new and particularly compelling fundamental development would have a different scale out strategy than a purely technical based trade, for example.
 
First trading week of 2021.

Current Positions:

QTT - $1.62
GLG - $1.58
NNA - $3.20
SFL - $6.06
CRTX - $27.76
QIWI - $10.50

Some other stocks I'm not in but keeping an eye on:

$BEST
$VITL
$BXRX
$TEO

Two huge winners that closed the year was RIG and BTU.

Quick update.

I'm liquidating GLG, NNA, SFL at the open today. Holding the rest for now!
 
huh? walk me through this? Why would you trade options in this thing?

When I go long a stock I always have a hard time deciding when to sell. Looking at the options chains in this one I see in the 156 DTE to the $7.50 call is trading for $0.20. If I buy the shares at say $1.36 my basis is now $1.16 and I can use the 156 day window as an opportunity for it to run. I'm it ends up called away at $7.50 a share in 156 days I'm happy with that outcome and made a good return. Example I bought RIG a few months ago below $1 and shorted the $3 call against it on a monthly basis. I've sold that call three times now and it looks like this week it might finally get called away but It's been a nice profit.
 
When I go long a stock I always have a hard time deciding when to sell. Looking at the options chains in this one I see in the 156 DTE to the $7.50 call is trading for $0.20. If I buy the shares at say $1.36 my basis is now $1.16 and I can use the 156 day window as an opportunity for it to run. I'm it ends up called away at $7.50 a share in 156 days I'm happy with that outcome and made a good return. Example I bought RIG a few months ago below $1 and shorted the $3 call against it on a monthly basis. I've sold that call three times now and it looks like this week it might finally get called away but It's been a nice profit.

interesting! I was also long $RIG from 0.80c, one of my best trades last year! But didn’t even think to sell a call against it! I’ll look into this
 
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