Hey Guys,
You know how sometimes you go on a roller coaster and when you get to the end it just kind of abruptly stops. They put on the brakes and you go from super fast to super slow in an instant. That's what the market feels like over the last couple weeks. It was bounding up and down and all over the place, and then in the last two days it just abruptly stopped and slowed down into this pretty narrow price range.
I closed the VRSN stock trade in my main account today since it reached its time limit. It locked in a half-sized profit. That gives me four wins and no losses so far this week as far as closed trades in the main account. Since November 1, my win-loss record on stock trades is 29-19. I feel pretty good about that, especially considering it includes a two-week period of extreme market volatility.
There are no new trades yet so far this morning. We did get one yesterday in the low-priced account for SFM. But otherwise, it's been pretty quiet. It was exactly like this the last time there was a patch of volatility in the market. After the market rebounded, it took a handful of days before trades from the back-tested strategy started setting up again. It's a natural mechanism of the trading strategy. The trades will definitely start to flow again at some point.
I have some options trades that are reaching their time limits today. They're the ones listed in red. I'll be manually closing those positions right near the end of normal trading hours today like I normally do (unless they reach their profit targets first). Once those options positions clear out, my portfolio is going to be pretty thin. I'll just be patiently waiting for new trades to set up so I can fill it back up.
If you have any questions or feedback, I'd love to hear from you.