New account high! +19% week. B"H

I see I didn't journal here yesterday. I had a really big down day yesterday, making all my stupid habitual mistakes including taking home a really big loser in BABA. Thank Gd I got redeemed today.

Today, B"H I got my piece out. I left a ton on the table, but when I got out clean I was very emotional. Took one more obvious trade in NVAX. Wanted NKE, but missed it and then decided not to mess around with my day.

Just for chuckles, the BABA puts I sold at 2.3 are currently trading at around 5.5. No regrets taking MY trade. Especially after screwing it up yesterday, this was gift horse.

-2% too big and a little scared

If I ever thought to trade without hard stops, see NVDA. I trade with hard stops to protect me from exactly this. If sometimes my stop gets run out I can always get back in, but if the market dumps I can not take this ride against me.

The market dumped today. I basically missed it because I was short BA and it didn't dump! WTF BA? Until after I closed it, and then it ran down much later to alllll my downside targets. Clockwork will do that sometimes. Was frustrating to watch everything else melt down except the thing I was in.

I was also short MRNA, which isn't necessarily correlated, but also didn't give up support.

Also, I tried somewhat bigger positions today. I thought I traded clockwork, but maybe I put my stops a smidge too close from being a smidge too scared. 

+10% day. Satisfying. Clockwork.

I'm finishing today still with dry powder, but I'm not even itchy fingers about it. Isn't that funny? On a day I'm down or small and frustrated, I can't wait to keep diving in. But on a day when everything works like clockwork, I'm ok not using all my money?

I was excited to get my piece of FB, but PENN was the stealth winner of the day churning nonstop up.

ETSY gave big %, but I had only a small position. Wouldn't have done it differently, it was icing.

Little bit in SPR. Stock made another nice move after I got out, but the spread was wide and despite volume, the trade felt thin so I took it all on p/l target.

Does it look scalpy to go in and out of FB and PENN like I did? No regrets about that either. I need to lock in profits, even if I take another swing. Can't just sit and hold and hope, but I can take another stab at it.

It's taken me all month to regain the losses I allowed in the first week of the month.
That's insane!

+2% day. I quit shorts early bc not correlating w SPY bull

Frustrating day, but I did come out green and I did trade like clockwork. Mama said there'd be days like this. My job is to keep trading clockwork, protecting my capital and I will take MY piece. PEACE!

Market action was REALLY strange today.  The stuff I was watching and trading went into peaks around 9:50-10:00, but SPY kept running and running. Made me have a lot of doubts about my shorts so I used tight stops and, esp on BA, got run out and missed the money. On the other hand, ZM (PTON, BYND, others I was watching) did take initial strong moves, but did not continue with SPY. It was like SPY was in a world of its own today (obv pushed by sectors I wasn't watching).

SPY for reference

BA This seemed to be a short play on daily, but Meir called it out long and I know this can go strongly both ways. Got my piece on the way up, but as it dropped (as expected), SPY still pushed up so I tightened stops and missed the move.

RCL Beauty short setup on daily but didn't get my move. Glad I stopped and didn't try to ride it out. Just like on BA, when this rolled, SPY didn't and I ate it on tight stops.

ZM In this case, the opposite. Sick strong open, then couldn't continue with SPY.