Main Account: +$236. Really hard day. Definitely tested me. Best to look at it in chronological order to get a feel for mistakes. There was also some amazing trading though, but ultimately failed my goal of managing size correctly and got punished for it (to the tune of around $600 on TSLA which put me near max draw-down).
Started the day with a solid short on NUGT off the open, added to a winner and locked in well over $200. This is obviously when I should be scaling down size and trying to cement gains, and I was mindful of this fact; but TSLA was behaving so I added to short (from 1/5 to 3/5s). Then when TSLA broke above the opening high I didn't take the stop-loss ended up riding it from 152 to 162 where I stopped at the high.
Ended up revisiting the TSLA short (with a surprisingly good attitude, i.e. didn't get too tilted) and crushed it - so really happy with this.
EXPE was a bit of a muck up as well (nowhere near as bad as TSLA). Didn't behave quite as well as expected - probably was a bit quick on adding. Ended up getting a really solid long on it though.
Equity fluctuated a lot throughout the day. Up $300-$400 off the open, then down $500, then up $600, then ended day at $200 (the last fluctuation was just good trades going wrong I think or drawing down on unrealised profits, although clearly inappropriate size). It's this sort of inconsistency, and the breaking of the rules that is stopping me from scaling up at all... But for the past few weeks I have been happy with my trading - need a couple of weeks without breaking sizing rules and I can look to increase size.
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