I wanted to create this separate from my Robinhood trading journal. This journal will be split between Scottrade Options and an Interactive Brokers Account Scottrade has been allotted $2,000 for trading volatility options Interactive Brokers has been allotted $25,000 for ETF trading Edit: I am going to keep my portfolio returns graph on the front page. I will try to keep this up to date every morning.
Scottrade options have not had any activity Interactive Brokers has been live since 2/21/2017 here is the history: and here are the current holdings: Currently the IB account is up + $7,424.42 / + 29.70%
And this is why if you're trading volatility you want to short vs going long XIV - risky, but the decay is higher on VXX. VXX has already surpassed the low before the big green bar - whereas XIV is still $1 away from the high before the big red bar.
I'm been lax in updating this log. In my Interactive Broker's Account: I added 493 more shares VXX Short on 6/13 @ 13.17 I added 500 more shares VXX Short this morning 6/14 @ 13.00 I added 139 more shares DGLD Long this morning 6/14 @ 46.61 In my Scottrade Options: I bought GLD JUL 21 2017 119.00 P yesterday @ 1.14 & .99
Targeting to buy back the other 493 @ 12.99 if we get there today Still holding GLD Puts in my Scottrade account
ugh, I just noticed I set the buy back on the 493 @ 2.99 instead of 12.99. I was wondering why I was till holding those shorts. DOH! I've changed it to 12.99 and seeing if we get there today... again. Still holding PUTS in GLD in my Scottrade account
Current holdings in my IB account: Long 139 shares of DGLD currently up $362 Long 151 shares of SSO currently up $682 Short 772 shares of VXX currently up $1,558.62 Overall the IB account is up $7,815/31.26% Current holdings in my Scottrade account: GLD JUL 21 2017 119.00 P Overall the Scottrade account is up $33.08/1.654%
Close out my GLD JUL 21 2017 119.00 P @ 1.56 today. I will be withdrawing this money from Scottrade as I just made enough to pay off a car. Still holding DGLD in my IB account.
Sold to close 151 shares of SSO @ 91.35 this morning. Sold to open 510 shares of VXX @ 12.71 this morning - tight stop. Still holding DGLD
Haven't updated in a while. Here are my current holdings: Still around $7,876.10 after the last couple days. Scottrade account was liquidated at Breakeven
Portfolio is completely filled out with positions: I have a stop loss of 94 shares of XIV @ 83.20 and a take profit of 94 shares of XIV @ 89.14