YTD Q2 Trading Results +36.4%

The first 6 months of the year is over! My results (which will be verified in a few weeks on www.financial-competitions.com ) are a +36.4% return. The S&P 500 did +9.6% in the same period, so I’m comfortably ahead of the benchmark.

Pretty good for 45 minutes a day's work!

Win rate is suspiciously high at 96.3% but that only accounts for closed positions. I still have a few open negative positions which should be closed in the next 3 months and should keep my win rate > 90%, which is normal for primarily selling options.

Even so I did make 55% of my returns from stock positions that I was willingly assigned at my strike price and subsequently sold at a profit. The balance of 45% comes from my vanilla option selling strategy.

Activity wise, it was slightly busier than usual with ~4 trades per week. Last year’s data was ~3 trades per week, but can be expected with the prolonged hostilities, which created a large number of opportunities.

I expect the next 6 months will be slightly quieter as the overheated market takes a pause, and possibly even a correction. Then will be switching strategies slightly.