Gross PnL: -$521.
Net PnL: -~$621.
Man really annoyed about this day. There were a couple of crucial mistakes towards end of day that completed destroyed a good mornings trading.
So started off the morning with some solid execution on some reasonable trade ideas. Out of the roughly 3-4 ideas, only one of them worked properly, and that was one that I only ever got a starter position on.
Then came the scalp off the halt gap down on VLRX, which was an opportunity I saw to push size a little; so did a solid job of trading that. At this point, up about $1000; for really only one really good trade idea.
Started going downhill after that. Took the short HAS trade for a fade, which initially was fine. When it failed to reject I simply didn't have the right mindset. There was plenty of opportunity to completely size down to a feeler on a dip (partial fills weren't helping on this either) - it is literally in my "anti-playbook" to aggressively fade a cleanly trending stock on news on day 1. So at peak I drewdown about $1000 on this (so I was BE on the day). At this point I knew I was trading badly, it is interesting to know that I would have been better off just canning the day here.
So CHEK popped up, and although it was clean; the volume pattern wasn't ideal - and I probably traded it a bit too aggressively. There was a seller sending it lower (and was relatively convinced he was fake) - turned out to be the case, but it tested me. Anyway way too aggressive given I needed to give it room to vwap. Good exits, realising I was in a pickle though and not holding on for breakeven of better.
So after all this (where I wasn't trading amazingly well); I was breakeven on the day. Donated another $500 to the market via a stupid NFLX trade.
Just so incredible how important it is to be in right mindset, a lot of avoidable mistakes that compounded somewhat. Not end of world, but shows how things can go.
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