DUST

The last week has put my feb 10 puts from decent profit to underwater in a week.  $10.32 close means it may be roll time tomorrow.

The part about premium selling that sucks is the whipsaw.  The shiny stuff putting the heat on right now.

 

Time to freak?

NO-Time to follow the plan and adjust/roll when atm hits.  #psychology

 

/VX Futures…I’m an idiot! LOL

Yesterday:

Taking a shot for a quick scalp…
SOLD FEB /VX @ 24.00
Looking to close it below 23.50 or so. I’d take 50 ticks…

Then last night I watched a doom and gloom video put out by one of John Carter’s people. Didn’t like the price action so closed it at even. Now it would be profitable by 115 ticks (10 bucks per tick)…learned (again) not too take the news or random opinions too seriously. Should just trust the chart which says shorting this any time in the 24-25 range is a pretty good bet.

Grrr!

#psychology

Friday trades and Psychology

Couldn’t post these due to my other real job.

#vxxgame:

STO Feb2  UVXY 27 put strike @.40

STO Feb ’16 SVXY 45 call @.60

STO Mar 1 UVXY 23 put @.65

STO Feb2 UVXY 29 put @.65

BTC Jan5 UVXY 82 call @.18-Probably would expire worthless, but nice two day gain and in this market I choose to error on the side of caution and take it when I have the nice gain.

BTC Feb1 25 put @.06

#miners

STO DUST Feb4 12 put @.55  I now have equal calls and puts on both sides for February.

#psychology

I just wanted to comment on what I feel is the most important part of trading and that is psychology.  Hopefully this spurs a continued theme here whereby we can notice certain traits with each other and help with self-coaching in this area as it can make you or break you as a long term and profitable trader.

My 3 main areas I am focusing on as strengths and weaknesses right now:

  1.  Position sizing-Strength – I have made some erroneous trades this last year and what has saved me is my position sizing based on my rules per my account size

Goal-Continue with proper position sizing going forward

2. Discipline-Big Weakness- This is an area whereby I need to really focus my  self-coaching.  I make impulsive direction trades sometimes that are based on “gut” and  not a plan or a setup.

Goal: I’ve started to create a set of daily trading plans using Evernote on my phone (Since most of my trades are via phone due to work) The plan includes If/Than statements same as an Algo would have setup in a trading strategy.

3.  Stop/loss– Moderate weakness- Sometimes I have good stops and sometimes I let it go too far taking a larger loss than I should before an adjustment.

Goal-Write a plan for each month in my #vxxgame  #miners and #/esfutsoptions of what my stops are targets are for each position.

 

Jeff and everyone,

I hope I did not clutter the site too much with this post and want to keep a continued #tag going on various #psychology self-coaching cues and strategies that could benefit everyone.

 

Enjoy your weekend!