1st Quarter Review
JANURARY Best Month of my life. Inside and outside trading. Got married. Caught a ton of major short pops, huge quick P/L moves. Nothing to complain about. Still a bit upset as I traded a lot of those with a scalpers mindset still, not quite willing to hold them as long as I should have. I have since recognized themes in the market and how I need to be trading around them. If theres a theme, and the stock acts right, and continues to act right, no reason not to hold as long as I can overnight. Was about as 'easy' as trading can get. Until... FEBRUARY Bad month. Part of it I was not in superbowl sunday mode everyday. I returned to trading after the honeymoon and promptly lost my ass pretty quick. Breaking lots of rules trying to get back in the swing of things and got crushed holding a trade big size overnight through earnings. -3k new biggest loss of career. But it was fine. More lessons to be learned. 1st and foremost, I hadnt traded properly in a few weeks to a...