 Hey everyone, 2023 is in the books. So I wanna share my trade results for the full year of 2023. I'm gonna do it a couple of different ways. I'm gonna break it down, my performance by the account, by my accounts that I trade. And then I'm gonna break it down in performance by strategy. And then at the end, we'll talk a little bit about asset class performance in general for the year of 2023. I'm gonna break this up into two videos. So the second video will just be posted in our Discord community to our members. But in the second video, I'm gonna do a 2024 market prediction. As you can see, I have prediction in quotes. Cause as you know, how I feel about predictions, they're about as good as the ink on this screen, which the ink on the screen is free if you didn't know. So just give you a little bit of a kind of a market prediction, kind of what I anticipate or what I think might happen in 2024. Then I'm gonna lay out my full game plan for 2024 and how I plan to trade. And then just a little bit about my 2024 trading goals. So with that, let's jump in and we'll start off by breaking down my trade results by account. And actually before I do that, I wanna just show this as well. This is actually Dr. Chad's day trading performance. So Chad runs a day trading livestream for us about two or three days a week at the market open. So these are his results, but I just wanted to share these real quick. So a couple of different strategies, one's called the Mighty 90. He took 188 of those, had a 73% win rate for a little over 23,000. A volume runner trade took 200 of those, about a 55% win rate, 14,000 in profits. And the continuation runner, he took 148 of those, 55% win rate, little over 12,000 in profits. So bottom line, 536 trades, 61% win rate and just over 50,000 for the year. So Chad just continues to be extremely consistent and disciplined with that. So cool stuff there. All right, so I can't take credit for that though. Those are Chad's results. Just wanted to share those. When it comes to my results, let's get to those. So I have three accounts that I trade for the trades that I do for the community. And so the first one is my Thinkorswim portfolio margin account. And the strategies that I primarily traded in this account throughout the year was ZeroDTE and my portfolio margin strategies. There were some other calendar spreads, butterfly spreads, some other trades taken in this account too. One thing that if you've been following me, you know is that sometimes if there are strikes that overlap in one account, I will move that strategy and trade it in the other. So is that the best for performance reporting? No, probably not, but that's how I do it. So it is what it is. But overall, the return in this account for 2023 was outstanding, 357.25% for the year. I did have a pretty horrendous drawdown of a little over 42%. And that primarily was due to in March, some portfolio margin mistakes that I made. Now the good news for our community is we didn't actually start our portfolio margin program until the beginning of May. So this is when I was still doing some testing, but I got a little out over my skis on some pretty sizable positions, especially for the fact that I was really just kind of testing them. And so that was the cause of this max drawdown. I did have a couple other drawdowns in excess of 20%, but this was the max one, about 42%. So the way this looks, here's kind of my P&L curve. You can see fairly consistently left to right with some little dances and jiggies in between here. Here's that big drawdown there. Luckily it was when my account was smaller and then this didn't feel good either. This was a combination of portfolio margin and some zero DTE volatility, but end of the year, extremely strong. And I'll show you as we break down the different strategy. Looking at this account by monthly returns, you can see May was a monster to the upside. October was my biggest month over almost, what was that, probably 44%, I believe, something somewhere in there, just in October and then December, another big month. Little drawdown in this account at the end of the month in November and March. So the cool thing that this shows versus the last slide as far with the drawdown is that I ended March with the account only down 9%. And I ended November with the account only down whatever that is, 6%. But the intra month drawdown is what I showed you before. So you can see, even though it was a massive drawdown in March, I was able to make a lot of that back before the end of that month. So this just shows my net lick at the end of the month on a percentage basis. So that's my monthly returns. All right, next account. This is my other thinkorswim account. This is a standard margin account. And in this account, I do a hodgepodge of strategies including option selling, short strangles, hedgehogs, iron ducks, time flies, some zero DTE and some calendars as well. The return on this account was negative, down almost 8%, also had a pretty sizable drawdown. In fact, one that I'm still in. And that was primarily due to time fly management errors, which we have corrected. But so that was the main culprit for that max drawdown. And really for the negative return of this account, option selling did awesome, hedgehogs did awesome, ducks did great, time flyings did great for a while and then just had a massive drawdown there. And then some of the zero DTE and calendars did fine. So monthly, or here's the graph of my P&L, my portfolio in blue, see pretty choppy, not what you want out of a P&L graph. And like I said, this is time fly stuff. Portfolio broken down my monthly returns because you had a 20% drawdown in March in this account, about a 12% in May, about a 22% in September and down a little bit this month. Had some good up months too, you know, 15%, 17%, 20%, 17-ish percent, but still again, small red on the year for that account. And then my third account is a trader account, also a standard margin account. The primary strategy I traded in this account was kind of my back test driven calendars, which is something new that I've been doing this year. Did trade some butterflies earlier in the year, but the overall return in the account for the year, 82.79%. The max drawdown, this is at the end of the month. So intramunth, it was most likely bigger, but I don't have the data from trader that I do with TOS. With TOS, I can get in and input every single day of the net look at the end of the day. With trader, I just had to do it at the end of the month. So you can kind of see, this was my net lick at the end of each month. You can see it kind of, it's more, looks more like a stair step than a flowing graph because these values are done on a monthly basis as opposed to a daily, like the one you saw on TOS. But ending on a high note, on that trade account as well, if we look at the monthly, you can see two drawdown months, April, November, the rest positive, October being the best at about plus 25% in one month. So that's my monthly breakdown of the trader account. All right, so trade results by strategy. I'm gonna break these down in six different categories. So we've got zero DTE, calendar spreads, butterfly spreads, iron ducks, option selling, and portfolio margin. Okay, these are all the categories that I review every week in our community. And so that's the trading category, the primary core trading categories that I trade. All right, so with that, let me bring up my trader sync. This is the platform I upload my trades to every day after the market closes. So we'll start with zero DTE. Now, some of these zero DTE strategies are strategies that I traded earlier in the year and I don't currently trade. And you can see those have a little Y in front of them. And that's just to put it at the bottom of the alphabet. So they go down to the bottom so they're not cluttering up my trade tracker. And then a bunch of these that don't have the little Y in front of them, these are the ones that I'm currently trading. So total profit for the year for zero DTE, 290,000. The unfortunate thing is the last trading day in December, I lost about $10,000. So it would have put me over the 300K mark. Unfortunately, still okay with it, made 290 on zero DTE. I'm not gonna break down every strategy here, but I will point out as most of you know in the community, my most profitable strategy by far, not just zero DTE, but any strategy I traded was power hour. So if I take these off and just show you power hour. Okay, click, click, click. Let me get all these clicked off. And then the power hour strategies that I used to trade. I'll include those as well. So it'd be these. All right, so this is just power hour for 2023. So you can see other that 290,000, 221,000 was power hour trading the last hour of the day. So pretty awesome stuff. All right, so that's zero DTE. Next I'm going to go to, next we'll go to dynamic butterflies. So butterflies were red for the year. This was my worst performing strategy, minus 6485. And you'll notice hitting it at 80.28% win rate on 73 trades, so the win rate's great. And they did really awesome. Had a couple of little draw downs here and there, nothing big, really consistent performance, little draw down there, really consistent performance until AI did increase my size. And this is where my mismanaged trades come in. I mean, three in a row. These were all on at the same time and just let them go too far. And it was in this period here, this is SPX. So you can see this is where the draw down happened and you can see what SPX did, obviously. If you've been trading for the last few months of the year, it just went straight up. And I just, I let those losses get out of hand as opposed to managing that risk. But I've tweaked the way that I position the strategy at entry, so that couldn't happen again, based on the way that I structure the trades now. But it is part of the performance. I mean, it is what it is. So unfortunately read on butterflies for the year. Next category is dynamic calendar spreads. So I got a lot of these, I got to click. So bear with me as I make sure we cover all the different dynamic calendar strategies. And I've got some down here that I don't trade anymore, but I did trade throughout the year. And let's give it quick refresh. And small green, 3,276, about a 66.5% win rate. So unfortunately last year, calendars were one of my most profitable strategies this year. They were just meh. Now, to break that down just a little bit further, if I take off my TGIF strategy, my performance goes to positive, almost 26,000. Now, you can't do that, right? So I'm not trying to dismiss the losers and just look at the winners, but my TGIF strategy was one of my best performing strategies in 2022. And it was one of the worst in 2023. So a lot of my back test driven, started using option Omega at the end of 2022. And so if I look at just my back test driven strategies, which would be, oh, yeah, okay. So that's not back test driven. That's not, that's not, that's not. So the rest of these are my back test driven strategies. So over 33,000 on those, almost 68% win rate. So we'll continue to have an emphasis on those going forward in 2024, but that's the breakdown of my calendar strategies. Next category, Iron Ducks. Got a couple reverse Iron Ducks in there. So with Iron Ducks, my total profit a little over $5,400 on 54 trades. So a lot of small winners. Now what's kind of crazy is look at this win rate, 84.91%. Now when we set up these trades, what probability are we targeting? Well, for those of you who've trade with us, you know it's 85%. So in that phenomenal, how once you get to a certain number of currencies, the probabilities actually play out. Now that doesn't necessarily, win rate doesn't necessarily mean you make money. Obviously in this case we did, but it's just interesting how those probabilities seem to always play out once you get to a certain number of trade occurrences. So breaking these down, primarily SPX, RUT and QQQ those trades were in, so decent year for duck. Had a couple of sessions where the market kind of smoked us out of a couple, but managed these pretty well. Didn't really have any blunders where we had any losses get out of control. You know, so did pretty well on ducks. All right, next category is option selling. So this includes hedgehogs, reverse hedgehogs, short strangles and some VIX strategies. Give a quick refresh here. And a little over 36,000 on option selling strategy, 68% win rate. If I break these down a little bit further, for example, short strangles just continued to do very well. If I look at just short strangles, you can see a 94% win rate on 55 trades. We only had 30, we only had three losers out of 55 trades on our short strangles. So those continues to do well. And then lastly portfolio margin. So zero DTE was my best performing category and portfolio margin was my second best performing category for the year. Let me click on, I've got some other portfolio margin strategies that I do not trade anymore, but I did trade throughout 2023. So make sure I click on those. There we go. Give it a quick refresh and the total profit for my portfolio margin and strategies a little over 82,000. 68% win rate on 194 trades. If I break these down just to show you kind of my best performers. Let's just go this, let's do this. So golden butterflies. Let me refresh this, make sure that's right. Why are these still here? Oh, yeah. Sorry, let me exit out of these real quick just to, I just wanna show you a couple of different strategies here that will continue to focus on a little bit heavier in 2024. There we go. All right, so golden butterflies just did six of those but a profit of over 17,000 on those. The other ones, I'll show you golden sharks continue to do very well. Fortunately, I have to refresh this sometimes. 16 golden shark trades, 86, almost 87% win rate over 34,000 on sharks. And the other one was Humpties. So Humpties, I had some big P&L swings in Humpties. Ended up positive for the year on Humpties. It was up a bunch in like October, November. And then had some pretty sizable losses that I let get out of hand. Actually, those were just really big positions. And so ended up positive on Humpties but tweaked a couple of different things on how we're managing those as well. So look forward to trading those when we have periods of high volatility. And so that's the breakdown of my portfolio margin. All right, so the last thing I wanna talk about is asset class performance year to date. So let's take a look at how the different asset classes performed if we take a look at the S&P, S&P, and this is future, so the index might be slightly different but S&P ended up a little over 25% higher on the year. NASDAQ ended up 55% higher. Russell ended up in the green by 16% after a massive run from the end of October to put it into the green. It was negative just a couple of short months ago. Dow ended up about 14%. Gold ended up a little over 12% higher. Silver ended up pretty flat, actually slightly red on the year from where it started. Bonds slightly red on the year down 1.82%. Notes down about a quarter of a percent. 10 year yield still up a few percent but was up as much as almost 33% at one point during the year. Oil down 7.62, natty gas, natty gas down over 37%. Taking a look at some of the grains here. Soybeans ended up down 13% lower. Wheat ended up 19% lower from where it started the year. Corn ended up almost 30% lower from where it started the year. The Euro ended up 4.47, the British pound ended up 6.28% higher and the biggest performer of the year was everybody's favorite category, Bitcoin. Bitcoin ended the year up 155.46%. So that's it for 2023, my friends, it was a good year. I look forward to an even better year in 2024. And again, I will post my goals and lay out my game plan for trading in 2024 in a separate video to the community. Cheers, happy new year and look forward to 2024. Take care.