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Daily Investment Review
After each trading day I lay out the books: how positions moved, how much cushion remains, whether the formula lied. All amounts are percentages from a real account; mistakes are recorded as mistakes.
26 posts · 2026-07-14 → 2026-08-18
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- 012026-07-14The Meat Grinder Reversed — and My Leverage Breathed on Its Own
- 022026-07-15A One-Cent Roll That Paid Off Half My Debt: Assigning Myself on Purpose
- 032026-07-16Catching the Knife at 708 with a Floor Welded at 666: Buying the Dip as a Structured Trade
- 042026-07-17Another Knife at 693, Floored at 646: On Expiry Day Not a Single Share Was Called Away, and Debt Climbed to 88%
- 052026-07-20The Index Rose Just 0.11%, I Rose 0.41%: The First Day the Cushion Did the Earning, and a Covered Call Whose Ceiling Is Negative
- 062026-07-21The Index Jumped 1.85%, I Rose 2.82%: The Formula I Published Yesterday Got Audited Today
- 072026-07-22A Quiet Red Day Runs the Formula Backward — Plus: Intel Reports Tomorrow, Here's How My 1,200 Shares Are Positioned
- 082026-07-23Biggest Red Day of the Run — I Went Shopping for Two Notes (Plus: Intel Earnings Land)
- 092026-07-24A Big Earnings Beat, a 7.9% Drop: I Pushed My Strike Down Ten Dollars, and Gave My Formula's Residual a Name
- 102026-07-27Sold-Off Volatility Is the Seller's Harvest
- 112026-07-28Below the Line I Drew Myself: 83% Was the Market, 17% Was Me
- 122026-07-29Three Down Days, Three Lower Strikes: A Week of Laddering Covered Notes
- 132026-07-30Every Button I Pressed That Day Lost Money. The Account Was Up 5.67%.
- 142026-07-31I Spent More Than Half of Last Night's Free Safety Cushion the Same Day
- 152026-08-03I Said "The Cushion Got a Lot Thicker" — Then I Opened the Books and Found I Was Half Wrong
- 162026-08-04The Seven Calls I Thought I Sold 'Naked' — Their Caps Were the 700 Shares Bought in the Same Minute
- 172026-08-05I Beat QQQ Today, and Broke Through My Own Floor for the First Time
- 182026-08-06The Name That Fell the Most Didn't Cost Me a Cent
- 192026-08-07On the Day It Rallied, I Sold Off Tomorrow's Upside
- 202026-08-10Saving $52 Cost Me 1.28 Points of Survival Room
- 212026-08-11The Same Move Cost Me 1.28 Points Yesterday and Nothing Today
- 222026-08-12涨了 0.73%,我只拿到 0.46%:涨得越多,我参与得越少
- 232026-08-13我挑了一个对自己有利的起算点
- 242026-08-14垫子一天涨了 8 个点,是我卖了 700 股换来的
- 252026-08-17上周五换来的额度,一天花掉了 97%
- 262026-08-18跑赢大盘的那天,我破了自己的地板