August 2025
-$4669 6 trades 3W ($724) 3L (-$5393) MA crushed me, I discuss it more at some point below. DE was a wing hedge that turned ugly fast. This turned out to be another huge research post. After I had just done Julys massive restructuring posts, in the first week, I had already seen another black swan sell crush me and a wing hedge that is supposed to offset loss, turn into a 5x loss of the original trade. I had to step away I had to rethink everything I had to look deeper I had to ask myself the question, what am I really doing here? So I went through some soul searching this month. It was tough but journaling and typing it out always helps me get through it. And I believe I got 90% of the way there. I got to the point I was satisfied with understanding why I was dissatisfied with what was going on. And to the point I would know how to go on from there. Some of this post I had started in late July, getting a head start on stat research, but after the ugly we...