It has been a few months after the $1,000 Trading Challenge at the beginning of the year. This semester and work has kept me pretty busy until recently, and I've kept mostly to the sidelines watching the markets and taking notes. I have pulled out the remaining money since the challenge and have been working on being more consistent with my trades. My accounts have blown up in the past because I haven't kept good risk management when I start losing, and because I generally enter positions with very close expirations.
I've started a $1000 paper trading account that I'll be running until I take it to $5000. After I will fund my account with real money and go from there. I call out my entries and exits as I take them on our discord, and only enter in plays I would actually enter with real money. I'm trying to keep this as close to real trading as possible. I keep track of all of my plays on a spreadsheet (updated EOD) and wanted to put it out there for all interested (link at the end). I call out anything that I'm looking at on our discord page, and where I think things are going. I get information from a variety of sources, groups, option flows, huge volume flows, and my own DD, but after I decide to enter the play the responsibility of loss or gain is mine and only mine. I started the challenge to myself a week ago (4/22/2019) and decided to start a running post to keep myself accountable.
Attached is the spreadsheet that I have been and am going to keep logging all of my trades on. As of week in, I'm up to just under $2300. My win rate is approximately 59%, and in a future post will go over how I'm keeping my risk management. Any highlighted box amount may not be accurate, because that play may not be closed yet. I'm excited to be putting this out there and start posting again. As always, feel free to contact me anytime I'm happy to help.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GyrgONG0pJ2fcv-uHOXsLDdmXCDGJH67FY19pFfxEB8/edit?usp=sharing
This project is for me to learn and to keep pushing myself. Any plays I discuss or enter is not investment advice, please do your own DD as well.
I've started a $1000 paper trading account that I'll be running until I take it to $5000. After I will fund my account with real money and go from there. I call out my entries and exits as I take them on our discord, and only enter in plays I would actually enter with real money. I'm trying to keep this as close to real trading as possible. I keep track of all of my plays on a spreadsheet (updated EOD) and wanted to put it out there for all interested (link at the end). I call out anything that I'm looking at on our discord page, and where I think things are going. I get information from a variety of sources, groups, option flows, huge volume flows, and my own DD, but after I decide to enter the play the responsibility of loss or gain is mine and only mine. I started the challenge to myself a week ago (4/22/2019) and decided to start a running post to keep myself accountable.
Attached is the spreadsheet that I have been and am going to keep logging all of my trades on. As of week in, I'm up to just under $2300. My win rate is approximately 59%, and in a future post will go over how I'm keeping my risk management. Any highlighted box amount may not be accurate, because that play may not be closed yet. I'm excited to be putting this out there and start posting again. As always, feel free to contact me anytime I'm happy to help.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GyrgONG0pJ2fcv-uHOXsLDdmXCDGJH67FY19pFfxEB8/edit?usp=sharing
This project is for me to learn and to keep pushing myself. Any plays I discuss or enter is not investment advice, please do your own DD as well.
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