Journal

I bought a call for COST, strike price 900 for June 21st expiration. The strategy behind buying these calls is this: earnings are due for Costco on Thursday and I expect good results. On top of that, COST has been one of my best long-term performers and I wanted to make some extra income from its strong trend. AMD closed down yesterday and NVDA managed to close up. Yesterday was a down day for the market but these two hanging tough in the face of the sell-off means the momentum is strong. ...

Now that I’m an active trader again I’m going to restart my semi-daily trading journal. I do this to keep myself sane spot where I make mistakes and learn to correct them. I’m long NVDA and it’s been a rocket to the moon. I got in around $750 and I expect it to hit $900 first before peaking out around $1,000. Traders love round numbers and I’m very wary of them because price action could fail around there. ...