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Trading week 13/2020 lasted from March 23 until March 27 2020 For this week I bit overtraded, in total opened  20 new positions (all ratio...

Trading week 12/2020 lasted from March 16 until March 120 2020 This was another disastrous week in the market, I faced at least one more margin...

Trading week 11/2020 lasted from March 9 until March 13, 2020 This was one of the worst weeks in the market so far. On March 12 I faced a margin call...

On March 12, 2020, markets tanked more than 20% from their all-time high's in February, I faced a margin call, my positions were force liquidated -...

Trading week 10/2020 lasted from March 2 until March 6, 2020 There were no closed trades this week. Just opened two call ratio backspreads on EUN2 and VGK...

Trading week 9/2020 lasted from February 24 until February 28, 2020 This was already the third week in a row when income from trading was positive....

Trading week 8/2020 lasted from February 17 until February 21, 2020 Actually the US markets were open just from the February 18, as February was a...

Covered calls probably are my favorite options trading strategy as it involves the least risk A covered call refers to a transaction in the financial...

Trading week 7/2020 lasted from February 10 until February 14, 2020 After three weeks in a row with negative net income, I finally managed to make a...

Trading week 6/2020 lasted from February 3 until February 7, 2020 This was meant to be a good week with a net profit, but I bit rushed and spent $750 on a...

Trading week 5/2020 lasted from January 27 - January 31, 2020 This week I closed 6 speculative trades on SPX, GC, and SPY - total net income - negative...

Trading week 4/2020 lasted from January 20 - January 24, 2020. Actually the week was even shorter as on Monday 20, there was a Martin Luther King Day...

Trading week 3/2020 lasted from January 13 - January 17, 2020 This week I was mostly closing trades made in the previous weeks. Also, one of my...

Trading week 2/2020 lasted from January 6 - January 10, 2020 This week I was mostly adjusting trades from the previous weeks. It depends how you count...

Welcome traders to the New Year, I wish you a very prosperous and safe trading 2020. Let's make it BIG! With this article, I'm starting the new trading...

I've been trading options since March 2019, I have been trading verticals since September 2019. Option trading is not easy, it can hurt. Money can be made and...

Trading week 52/2019 was from December 23 until December 27, 2019 (Monday - Friday). During the week there were the Christmas holidays, and I was...

This is a quick tutorial on how to setup / enable charts in Interactive Brokers to trade stocks, ETFs, indexes e.t.c. For the last couple of months I'...

Trading week 51/2019 was from December 16 until December 20, 2019 (Monday - Friday). The original plan was to sell only 0 DTE SPX trades on Monday...

It was on early November 5th, 2019 morning, I was reading an interesting story about a guy buying a Tesla car for his sons 9th birthday, here is the story...

Trading week 50/2019 was from December 9 until December 13, 2019 (Monday - Friday). This week I was on travel but managed to make a slim profit....

Selling covered calls has been one of my favorite options trading strategies. A covered call refers to a transaction in the financial market in which the...

Welcome traders to the eleventh week's (#11) trading result income report. If you are new here - with the help of these reports...

On October 10, 2019 I made my first Iron Condors trade on AEX index. The AEX index, derived from Amsterdam Exchange index, is a stock market...

This article has been in the blog's draft section for a couple of months and as it still bears some useful information I decided to publish as it is with...

Welcome traders to the ninth week's (#10) trading result income report. If you are new here - with the help of these reports I...

In the month of November 2019, I kept suffering from my trades on indexes. I took a loss of about EUR 3,000. If there was a lesson learned, then...

Welcome traders to the ninth week's (#9) trading result income report. If you are new here - with the help of these reports I'...

On Aug 2, 2019, I sold the following naked put -  PBT DEC 20'19 5 @0.4 This was already the fifty (#50) put sell from my short options...

On Aug 12, 2019, I sold the following naked put -  FTR JAN 17'20 2 @1.35 or I roll forwarded my first put sell I made earlier this year (My...