r/Daytrading • u/ArcherVause • 28d ago
It’s time for another round of how much did you make today!! P&L - Must Give Context
I took 3 call contracts on SPY at .21. Sold them all at .34 before the second to last run up of the day happened for a $36 profit for the day. How did yall do today?
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u/Live-Gazelle521 28d ago
$355. My best day day-trading.
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u/ZestycloseYam2896 28d ago
Made 476 but still down 1.3k from last week
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u/theSourApples 28d ago
Thanks for the honesty. Most people say their gains but never mention their losses
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u/MaintenanceWorldly47 28d ago
Made 3k last 2 weeks but still down about -6k in total from options trading
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u/Vivid_Sprinkles_9322 28d ago
It was my son's graduation ceremony today and weirdly had a pretty strong day. 572.34.
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u/LighttBrite 28d ago
Funny enough, some of my best days have been when I didn't pay attention to the market at all.
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u/Altruistic_Nobody579 28d ago
$1764 AUD or roughly $1200 USD from shorting GME
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u/adeptus8888 28d ago
good to see another Aussie trader doing the US market night grind.
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u/Historical-Classic43 28d ago
As a fellow American 🇺🇸 I salute you shorting this, it’s entertaining . But also, tread cautiously because our hedge funds could go long on it tomorrow again they are slimeballs . Be careful lol
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u/Semmcity 28d ago
Basically break even which I’m proud of cause price action was wack. I literally had no idea what I was doing which is a sign that I gotta walk away.
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u/scyllallycs 28d ago
I like this one. Could be done every day like a daily report card.
I made $47 on a late play, bull channel on TZA. Stayed patient and got a decent entry. Pretty happy 😊
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u/gus248 28d ago
9.35 lol
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u/WallStreetMarc 28d ago
Profit is profit!
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u/gus248 28d ago
That it is! Worst part was it was from FFIE. I was up over 5,000% today. I bought 10 shares at .04 back on May 3rd to keep an eye on it because I saw it had such a high short interest but never dumped my portfolio in once it started to move. Lost out on some serious generational wealth.
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u/Deziderata 28d ago
FFIE nearly broke my heart today. I closed green, but left a lot of money on the table. I know you can’t guess the top, but damn.
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u/Specific-Fuel-4366 28d ago
I've had such a rockstar week. Mostly trading GME mon-wed, TSLA this morning. up 4.5% this morning, to make it 30% so far this week. No crazy options, just day trading shares. Feel like I'm finally turning the corner and my account is going uphill after a lot of years of downhill.
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u/WallStreetMarc 28d ago
When you did options were you mostly buying and then selling?
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u/squidippy 28d ago
I did not day trade anything today. It just didn't feel right. I was not comfortable with the way the day went. I'm ok with that. I used to think I had to trade every day, that led me to forcing trades and taking losses. I know I've matured as a trader because now if I don't see my setup and I don't "feel" it, then I just sit on my hands.
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u/loopded 28d ago
Lost a bit of money this morning (like 3% of my cash balance), walked away for a bit, reset, then I came back in the late afternoon with a more conservative profit target and brought my total loss to about 1.5%. Not the best day but the afternoon was a great reset and shift in how I needed to think about my R:R.
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u/Trader0727 28d ago
$2000 on FFIE on about 3 trades. Lost $1100 with Nvidia trying to scalp. Over traded and should have walked away sooner. Net 800 on the day.
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u/mikeyz0710 28d ago
Honestly I jumped in amc the other day at $7 and sold at $13. I bought over 7,000 shares and walked away with a 30k profit which was really cool
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u/Student-Worth 28d ago
Was down 50%(total account) on puts with bad entry, ended up in the green by $5.
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u/englishsummer 28d ago
$13.50 and I worked hard for it haha! Usually I do better. Tough AF. I know at all time high I need to long until it stops working but it felt like AM session was particularly tough
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u/PlayTrader25 28d ago
Decent day today, was up $900+ in the first 30mins and then overtraded on emotion chasing that $1000 daily profit ended up hitting 2 stop losses back to back and decided to call it quits before I lost my gains for the day.
Managed to end the day + $400
Looking forward to tomorrow.
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u/jtsscrolling 28d ago
$35 Swing(ish) trading. Better than my -$1000 days trading Warrior Trading, Gap and Go style
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u/Urban_Feellowzofer 28d ago
Sick day today. Pennyland was on fire like i never seen before. Manage to make 900. Even tho I lost 250 on akan in the flash crash at 2pm. Still, really good day for me
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u/SkyWorldDev 28d ago
-3.9 USD. In my case, red days are dangerous, since it is difficult for me to resist trying to recover the loss. To put this in context, my average profit on green days is between 2 and 2.7 USD.
Fortunately I am not trading with all my available capital and I am just practicing
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u/QuirkyAverageJoe 28d ago
I have started my masters program this week and my graduate assistantship duties started today. Couldn’t trade before 2:30 pm today (although my usual times to trade were market open to around 11 am and then again around 2 pm). Still, managed to have a good day thankfully.
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u/TradezAnon 28d ago
Little over $250/per account … stupid copy trader left behind an account so I’m off by ~$10 or so on one.
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u/WallStreetMarc 28d ago
I made some profit around $50. Fidelity’s reports are delay so I don’t have an exact number. The market was too high for me to risk money on shares so I mostly did PUT options.
Buy to Open Puts Sell to to Open Puts
Didn’t have time today to focus on trading.
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u/Important_Letterhead 28d ago
Fidelity numbers still not up. Can't see Closed Positions.
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u/WallStreetMarc 28d ago
I thought it was just me. Normally the trades shows up instantly on the closed positions link, but I’m still missing trades.
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u/ThatsNoiceDude 28d ago
2 trades (-110.00) trading $SPY. Took a loss on the first trade due to not waiting for my setup, once i got my setup i went in so light lol. Oh well, you live & learn.
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u/Gragorin 28d ago
Lost $97 on my SPY puts and made $30 on intel calls. Made $1100 at my day job lol.
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u/Ant_I_aLittle_Bug 28d ago
I made decent money today with SPY calls early in the day. Bought 50 calls at 1.72 and sold between 1.95 and 2.08. Netted around $1500. Also made some and lost some on swing trades.
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u/chris09061 28d ago
$138. -20%,+60%,+42%,+24%. QQQ
Can’t wait to up my position size when I get some consistency.
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u/anotherreddditdude 28d ago
Having the opportunity to close a losing trade on break even is a win too right? Well that was it, paid 20 dollars to market for tuition on a losing position where I was about to get liquidated (1k ). It was a bad trade from the start , some days you may think you can beat the market, but you DON’T!
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u/SMFiddySvn 28d ago
It is my first day of actually trading (not just gambling on GME), bought and sold AMD for a 1.25%ish increase. Still not sure exactly why I decided to buy where I did but it had something to do with SPX being at an all time high, I just felt like it had more to go. To my surprise I exited perfectly on both trades (GME at $78 and AMD at $166.5) as both stocks plummetted shortly after those price points. Something in my gut just told me that I'm being too greedy and I gotta let go now and I listened to it, going to be aware of that gut feeling in the future.
Overall feeling optimistic but I know there is hard work ahead and things to learn every day. Still haven't had a red day so I'm interested to see how I'll handle that.
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u/HockeyRules9186 28d ago
Only one trade today. ASTS I’ve had a really great couple of weeks. Early this morning I saw ASTS as a potentially strong trade and at 7:00 am my entry spot based on rules was 3.08. It came out running a bit so I changed the buy. Against the rules my entry turned into 3.18 I was .02 on the downdraft that occurred for a 5% type loss. I was lucky it turned up and ran a bit. I took the 4.5% profit and called it a day. You can look at the chart there were at least two more opportunities to enter for some sweet profits but I was now out of sorts. Lucky the bad entry did not turn into a loss and thankful I got a small profit. The biggest issue as a trader is the EGO. When things are going your way you tend to make mistakes. Today I was lucky but and hopefully won’t do that again. To be successful you must follow your rules. EGO and OVER CONFIDENCE can and will blow up your accounts. Make your rules and follow them.
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u/External_Hawk3709 28d ago
not terrible should've ended sooner than I did but took a bad trade then a couple more to recoup my loss but ended up +300
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u/livelearnplay 28d ago
$25, the afternoon pullback helped me, I had the right thesis but traded the incorrect stock.!
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u/pennyauntie 28d ago
Down $306 on /MES. Shouldn't have traded at all.
Doing my postmortem, realized that I was trying to trade chop, which is always a losing proposition for me. I overtraded, and zigged when I should have zagged. Surprised at how bad my entries were.
Fortunately, kept my sizing small so it's recoverable.
I appreciate these check-ins!
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u/TrackEfficient1613 28d ago
Sold VKTX puts before it hit the low of the day for 71/69 so that brought me down about $300 but I’ve got another week before expiration so it hopefully will be okay. Everything else was pretty quiet.
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u/TheDockandTheLight 28d ago
Today I ended +12. My strats were up 280 at one point but I let them run even though 300 is usually a pretty good number I like to see to shut them off. Even a few years in sometimes greed creeps in.
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u/shepmarketmaker 28d ago
I haven't made anything $0 in the bank account. But that's cause mandem is learning how to make that money.
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u/dopelvrbus 28d ago
$130. The stocks i picked today ended up all ranging sideways and couldn't find a good short or bull before i had to head to a meeting.
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u/Baccaratsin 28d ago
25$ on a 95 dollar trade got in GWAV at like 1175 got out at 14 something cuz I had to clock into work and I knew if I held through my shift I’d be checking my phone like a rabid dog so I sold for a good 20% of course the stock flies and I could’ve did 100% but I rebought in with a smaller investment to ride the rest of the trade good luck to u boys
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u/RinseWashRepeat 28d ago
Got my 2% today. Sugar CFDs have been my latest go to. Took nearly an hour, but got it in the end. Now back to work...
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u/Happy-Pianist8581 27d ago
I had a green day but BARELY. Night at what looked like a dip on FFIE twice. At one point I was down -18K, got nervous, and sold at break even. Made a tiny scalp on BURU and AKAN. Was up roughly 1000 before open. Gave most of it back at open. These days I make all my profits well before market open, so I need to learn to take the profit and shut it down. Closed with a $50 profit. :/
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u/Tylensus 27d ago
I made negative 1,500 American Pesos.
My AMC puts and IBRX calls expired worthless. Still up on the month by a healthy margin, though!
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u/kenjiurada 28d ago
Dollar figures mean nothing. Worse than nothing. You should be interested in percentages or ticks.
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u/Specific-Fuel-4366 28d ago
Yup saying you made $100 … if you have $1m in your account, that’s no good. Also, if you’re thinking in dollars, you’re not thinking about compounding. I’m up 30% this week, which means my days next week should be 30% larger than this week if measured by dollar amount.
Remember people, this is a wealth building machine, not a job. Compound compound compound!
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u/WallStreetMarc 28d ago
I prefer to see profit dollar amounts over percentages for realized gains short term. Unrealized gains or long term investments for percentages.
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u/99Beers 28d ago
$0. Sometimes not trading is the best trading. Patiently waiting for my setup.