RTT Trend Trading practice thread.

Not doing anything today but updating my CAT stop.

CAT 5 x Nov 90C @ 4.30 = 2,150
Stop: 3.95
Limit: 5.65
Now: 4.25

There are no new triggers on RTT today, and I was stopped out of CAT this morning at 3.90. I will record the loss tomorrow.

Again no triggers on RTT. Maybe just a slow time to be trading. I'm accounting the CAT loss.

CAT 5 x Nov 90C @ 4.30 = 2,150
Stop: 3.95
Limit: 5.65
Sold 5/15 @ 3.90 = 1950
-200


Account Total: $10,461

Now CAT is showing up as a put! I am going to stay out for now. I am doing some analysis of the plays that I have made. The first thing I am doing is going back through the entire thread and putting all trades into a spreadsheet. I am going to run some analysis on all the trades and see if there is something that stands out in terms of doing things differently. We know this is the 'harder' time of the year because of the summertime chop. So I may get a lot more selective on trades instead of trading everything that comes across the table. For now, I'm on hold until I do some further research. One of the things I may do is bring in an exterior chart for this time of year. Only trade the trades the qualify with another chart, perhaps. I'm not sure, but the first thing is to gather some information on the trades that I have done so far.

I already put a lot of them into the spreadsheet, and I'm already seeing that the movement in the fall/winter was so much more sweeping... These days, it seems like I am just in a trade long enough to get stopped out as my stop moves up. Back then, moves were happening very swiftly (for or against me).

So I'm going to have a google spreadsheet link soon enough. It will show all the trades up to this point, and I will start updating it further as I progress through the rest of the year.

I got a trigger on Yahoo to go down today, but that's a big drop already. Going to let that one pass also.

Still working on the spreadsheet. I see that I made some typo's in the calculations early on. That's pretty funny. The spreadsheet does the calc for me, so it will be more accurate once I have it fully filled in.

For anyone who wants to see it, I have made it publicly viewable.

[docs.google.com]

I continue to fill it in, but I am no where close to complete yet.

Still checking in. Had a trigger on DECK yesterday, but earnings is tomorrow. So there's no play there.

Other than that, things are quiet. Which is nice since I'm not really itching to jump into anything.

I am still filling in the spreadsheet. Should have it complete soon. It will be better for future trades anyway.

Ok

I got a trigger on CME, and though it's been a while, I'm going in!

CME 5 x Dec 95C @ 4.10 = 2,050
Stop: 3.20
Limit: 5.35

Happy last day of the month!

Practically no movement today on CME.

I'm going to leave it alone and check on it again tomorrow. Considering how things have been going, I'm not going to add any positions until later. I think I will just run one during the summer months.

CME 5 x Dec 95C @ 4.10 = 2,050
Stop: 3.50
Limit: 5.35
Now: 4.10

Skipped yesterday because nothing was triggering. CME is doing just fine, so I'm still holding... Going to move up the stop on it, but leave it alone otherwise.

CME 5 x Dec 95C @ 4.10 = 2,050
Stop: 3.75
Limit: 5.35
Now: 4.50

No new triggers today. Updating on CME.

It has gone back to even. Market is full of chop. I'm going to keep moving my stop up on it. See where it goes.

CME 5 x Dec 95C @ 4.10 = 2,050
Stop: 4.00
Limit: 5.35
Now: 4.10

Wow...

Never kicked me out yesterday. I don't know if this is because of paper or what. The price of the stock did go against me a little yesterday, but my stop never fired... Whatever happened today is welcome. I am kicked out on the high side.


CME 5 x Dec 95C @ 4.10 = 2,050
Stop: 4.00
Limit: 5.35
Sold 6/5 @ 5.35 = 2,675
+625

Account Total: $11,086

Couple more triggers on Friday, but I'm trying to trade less through the summer time. Holding on to my money until the fall winter. So I'm going to stay out for the most part.

Still checking every day in case I see something that looks amazing. I'd like to hold on to 10% coming into the fall winter though. Hoping to pull out some decent gains into the end of the year.

Still checking in. Still opting out of trades for the time being. I am actually looking for an RTT trade to come up long, but there are very few of those at this time of year. So I'm just staying out. But I am still checking in...

Wow.

I really would like to get into this AMZN position, but it would cost me 4k for one contract... So I'm going to have to let it pass. But I will practice it... Just won't count it here since my trade size is 2k here.

I am still checking daily. It does seem like just checking out this time of the year might be worth doing. I will continue to check daily until the fall winter.

Nothing interesting happening. I have nothing but short 1 week trends triggering in RTT. I'm still tracking AMZN, and it's working... Not up by much, but up now... Too bad it was too expensive...

Trigger today on NFLX which is also far outside of my trade size. Have to let it pass as well.

Nothing else going. Have a good weekend.

Finally got one!

I'm going in on AAPL today.

I am supposed to buy at least 180 days of expiration, but I'm going to let 176 days of expiration slide on this trade.


AAPL 2 x Dec 125C @ 10.00 = 2,000
Stop: 8.50
Limit: 13.20

I ended up stopped out of this yesterday.

Sure does seem like a good idea to do nothing until August... I'm going to keep checking in... Accounting to follow:

AAPL 2 x Dec 125C @ 10.00 = 2,000
Stop: 8.50
Limit: 13.20
Sold: 8.40 = 1,680
-320


Account Total: $10,766

I'm still here in still checking daily. But I am holding my cash until the fall winter.

I am looking at IBM today. But I am just looking for now.

Still here!

Still lurking... I'm expecting to go back to daily posts in early August...

I have begun tracking since the start of August, but I haven't seen any triggers yet. There was one to go down on TSLA yesterday, but TSLA was doing earnings.

There are no new triggers today.

Well well!

I'm back!

Here for an AAPL trigger that kicked in today.

AAPL 2 x Apr 120C @ 8.90 = 1,780
Stop: 7.15
Limit: 11.60

Are you sure it triggered a Call or a Put?....
At least you bought some time, that may save you... but the Stop price is getting close, too.
Good luck.


funkho Wrote:
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> Well well!
>
> I'm back!
>
> Here for an AAPL trigger that kicked in today.
>
> AAPL 2 x Apr 120C @ 8.90 = 1,780
> Stop: 7.15
> Limit: 11.60

It was definitely a call trigger. The update happens based on what happened the day before.

And yes, I have been stopped out of AAPL already today.

There are triggers on others though.

AAPL 2 x Apr 120C @ 8.90 = 1,780
Stop: 7.15
Limit: 11.60
Sold: 7.15 = 1,430
-350

CRUS 3 x Mar 25C * 6.00 = 1,800
Stop: 4.85
Limit: 7.90


Account Total: $10,416

Trigger came up on CRM calls.. Heading into that. CRUS is progressing nicely. Moving up the stop on that.

CRUS 3 x Mar 25C @ 6.00 = 1,800
Stop: 5
Limit: 7.90
Now: 6.90

CRM 2 x Feb 65C @ 11 = 2,200
Stop: 9
Limit: 14.50

I'm going to start closing plays off the list if they trigger out on RTT now. Sometimes, the signal fires, but then the play falls off the list. That has happened with CRUS. So I'm going to bail on it even today. Wait for another spot to get in it.

CRM hasn't removed the trigger, so I'm leaving it in.

CRUS 3 x Mar 25C @ 6.00 = 1,800
Stop: 5
Limit: 7.90
Sold @ 6.00
0


CRM 2 x Feb 65C @ 11 = 2,200
Stop: 9
Limit: 14.50
Now: 11.10

CRM is doing just fine. Going to move the stop up on it. Another trigger on CME.


CME 2 x Mar 95C @ 6.70 = 1,950
Stop: 5.45
Limit: 8.75



CRM 2 x Feb 65C @ 11 = 2,200
Stop: 10
Limit: 14.50
Now: 11.80

I got another trigger today on AAPL, so I'm going into that one as well. Only going to have three going at a time. CME is fairly unchanged. CRM is moving nicely. Going to stick with these.


CME 2 x Mar 95C @ 6.70 = 1,950
Stop: 5.45
Limit: 8.75
Now: 6.60

CRM 2 x Feb 65C @ 11 = 2,200
Stop: 10
Limit: 14.50
Now: 12

AAPL 1 x Apr 100 @ 20.95 = 2,095
Stop: 17
Limit: 27.50

It's not looking good, but I nothing has dropped off the trend list. I do not believe I have been stopped out yet on anything, so we're sitting tight another day.

CME 2 x Mar 95C @ 6.70 = 1,950
Stop: 5.45
Limit: 8.75
Now: 6.20

CRM 2 x Feb 65C @ 11 = 2,200
Stop: 10
Limit: 14.50
Now: 11.50

AAPL 1 x Apr 100 @ 20.95 = 2,095
Stop: 17
Limit: 27.50
Now: 20.00