Friday, May 8, 2020

Clockwork Friday +7%. Comfortably intense

Sometime during the session, I thought to myself, "This day is going to be annoying to journal." Maybe that means I overtraded? I did take A LOT of trades. Multiple trades on 7 stocks. I think I'll always wish for a better result, but I must not regret slippage on market orders. Slippage is going to be part of clockwork trading because market orders, especially stop market, is how I avoid the poison of big losses. And trading today's expiration on options... can't stick around for anything!

Maybe this is lazy, but I want to get something posted for starters so...



















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