No one leads an optimized life. Did you go to the perfect school for you? Do you have the ideal friends? How about your spouse? Is there no one among eight billion people who could possibly be better? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
We don’t think about such things, except in the world of trading. Or at least I do. I keep track of my closed positions, just to see how things worked out afterward. Of the 157 most recently closed positions, want to know how many kept going up? 149 of them.
Below I show the biggest percentage gainers (if you care, the columns, from left to right, are underlying stock, days until expiration, underlying price, intrinsic value, strike price, expiration date, entry price, bid, ask, and then, the most important of all, the percentage change since I closed it). Why I do this to myself, I’ll never know, but……….let’s just agree we live in an opportunity-rich environment:
