I'm back after a long hiatus from this group. I have been learning from a different coach, mostly options strategies. I drifted away from this group mainly because it's really hard for me to post my trades. The strategies I play are difficult to enter into the journal here, as I never play straight calls or puts. Lately I've been dabbling in options on /ES futures to avoid PDT. We'll see how it goes.

Trade week for Feb 6-10. Red week. Just couldn't get on the right side, and had some bad luck with GOOGL. The SPY trade could have been a nice winner had I been able to close it P/M, but it was an options trade, so I had to wait until open. By then it had bounced, and decay took all my profit away. Held until stop loss, because I think there's more downside coming, but it bounced too high. CCL was a day trade that I couldn't monitor because I had to leave work and take my daughter to school. The other 2 trades are still open and are profiting right now. I'm waiting for more downside to hit at least 50% ROI on those.

My trades for the week of Jan 30, 2023. I'm very happy with this week. I hit my 70% win percentage goal!

Total Wins for January 2023: 10/18 trades Total Accumulative Return: +$525 Total Accumulative NET Return: +458.39 Win %: 55.56% Biggest % Profit: 128% Average Return %: 11.39 % Total Commission/Fees: -$66.61 I am posting my trades this way from now on. I have been trading options spreads and strangles, which are impossible to enter into the Profitly trade journal. All my trades are uploaded into my Tradersync journal from my brokers, Think or Swim and Tastyworks, so they are verified trades.

Total Losses for January 2023: 8/18 trades Return on Losers: -$239.45

I closed my BITO trade at open with a +7% ROI at $14.48 per share. Not bad for a gratuitous mistake and netted me about $180. ToS PaperMoney trade

I was going for a DP whisper trade on this one. Hit the BA target, so I entered. Stop set to $0.10 loss, looking for a TGT of $0.30. It trades sideways all day. I decided to get rid of it at EOD at BE because I didn't want to hold it O/N due to the risk. I didn't realize that my sell order was for only 100 shares instead of the 300 that I bought. I only just noticed I still had an open position when I started my trade review this weekend. As of Friday's close BITO is at 14.19. I will sell at market open on Monday, and hopefully lock in that profit. Gratuitous mistake! Jan 17-Jan 23 2023. ToS PaperMoney Trade

I was watching this one for Steph's strategy, and it hit BB for the daily whisper. I didn't short it tho, since it was too early to go in. I noticed it was showing signs of Tim Sykes's morning panic dip buy strategy-increasing volume on a possible reversal candle. I waited for the next candle for confirmation, and it started to form a bullish engulfing candle. Went in without a real plan, which made me panic when it went up and then down a few cents, so I ended up panic selling at BE with a loss of broker fees. Need a plan to keep the emotions in check, even when I'm paper trading. Jan 13 2023, ToS PaperMoney Trade

DPI swing trade BA $11. I bought the stock on this one because I know from experience that BITO moves slowly, didn't want to worry about expiry dates, and the price is cheap enough to make a decent profit by buying shares. Stop loss set at -$0.10/ share. TGT set to $0.30-$0.50/ share. The next morning, it gapped down a little, but not enough to hit my stop. I had to set an automatic stop at 10am EST, because I had to leave work and get my daughter to school. The stop hit while I was on my errands. Jan 10-Jan 11 2023, ToS PaperMoney Trade

I used DPI on this trade. I had a position open in real money at the end of 2022. I decided to cut that trade for a small profit, so I could stick to my paper trading goals for 2023. BAC was still holding above the prints, so I swung it o/n. After watching Stef's trading journal workshop, I realized I was lucky to get what I did. Yesterday's close was not ideal for a 5* trade according to the candle on the daily. As I look now, I see the hammer candle at the top of a MD run, which is a reversal sign. I took what I thought was half profits at market open, but thought I bot 100 instead of 300, so I still had 250 shares left. When I realized this, the stock had hot almost $35, so I took out another 100 shares so I held only half my position. During the workshop I took out the rest after midday weakness, and after Stef had commented that it wasn't an ideal swing trade. Looks like it might hammer again at close. I will be reviewing the workshop from today, and take notes on exactly what I need to be tracking in this journal before I take my next trade. Jan 03-Jan 04 2023, ToS PaperMoney Trade