Average Joe's Trading Journal

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  1. AverageJoesTrades

    AverageJoesTrades Well-Known Member

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    Well now that I can no longer trust Robinhood since they were down for an entire day as well as 1/2 of an additional day I am creating this new journal with my other brokerage Interactive Brokers. This will be a mix of stocks/futures/options.

    As of yesterday I only had $2,043 in my interactive broker's account, which I currently have 2,767.34 transferring. At the close yesterday I bought the following - all 3/20 expiration:

    1 SPY 312 Call @ 5.79
    1 QQQ 218 Call @ 5.22
    1 XLV 97.5 Call @ 2.29
    2 XLU 66.5 Calls @ 1.15
    1 XLK 94.5 Call @ 2.12
    2 XLP 61.5 Calls @ 1.12

    Sold them all today right after the FED announcement
    1 SPY 312 Call @ 6.74
    1 QQQ 218 Call @ 5.56
    1 XLV 97.5 Call @ 3.00
    2 XLU 66.5 Calls @ 1.52
    1 XLK 94.5 Call @ 2.10
    2 XLP 61.5 Calls @ 1.39

    I then Stupidly bought 8 SPY shares @ 310 and sold for a loss @ 303.58 an hour or so later.

    Overall positive today $262 or a little more than 10%
     
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    Picked up 1 June S&P futures contract this morning at the market open

    1 contract @ 3048.25
     
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    ok - blowing the dust off this bad boy.

    I'm going to focus mostly on options here. Starting with $4,000 in profits from holding some futures contracts back in early June. I will be deploying 1/2 of the $4,000 at the close and if it opens against me - I will average down the other 1/2 account at the open. I'm only looking for a 25% gain each deployment, which compounded will take be 25 trades to hit $1M. I will either make it to the top or crash and burn. Again - I am playing with profits - this is not money that I *CAN'T* live without. Please remember options trading is very risky if you follow my plays - this is not financial advice.

    Picked up 101 XLF $25 Call contracts @ .20 right at the close - actually got filled on 1 @ .19 cents.
     
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    Sold 101 contracts right at open @ .30 for a 50% gain on 1/2 my account which equates to my 25% gain goal. Up $1,000 for the day.

    Account now at $5,000
     
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    Nice. I look forward to following this thread. I'm rooting for you! Can you post some resources to trading 'options' so us newbies can try to follow your strategy?
     
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    Thanks for following the support! Honestly I'm just looking for a quick 1 day pop based on years of reviewing charts. I only trade highly liquid ETFs - only 1-2 cent spreads that way I can normally get a good fill both in and out. I trade weeklies, unless it is Thursday/Friday entry I will move to the next week and I go 1-3 strikes out of the money to try and get a big hit on gamma, which moves the delta of the option.

    Watching IYR puts for this Friday.
     
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    Ended up picking up 34 8/28/20 $42.5 GDX Calls at the close @ .36 each. this is only 25% of my account because I was waiting on IYR to signal and ended up being too late to add more GDX. Hopefully I'll get a 100% pop and will still reach my 25% goal!
     
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    Sold right at the open for .50. Gold was ripping pre-market and came back down.
     

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