 Hey everyone, welcome to this week's video update recording this Sunday morning April 7th. Hope everybody's having a good weekend Quick talk about the markets and then we'll jump into the trades for the week So obviously the big news of the week was the sell-off on Thursday the first part of the day We're kind of grinding higher. It looked like we were gonna push to new all-time highs and then things just fell apart When right around the time kashkari one of the feds were speaking Big sell-off Big bounce back bigger bounce back on Friday certainly than I expected But I still think we're not ready to go back to all-time highs. I think I think we've got some more downside here in this little short-term at least just my opinion, but the big thing for me is Ladies and gentlemen, we have VIX back over 16. So hopefully we can sustain that a little bit keep these premiums juiced and Give us some opportunities to have some fun with a little bit higher implied volatility It's pretty much same story in all the indices the Russell Not as big of a bounce back on Friday gold continues to push new all-time highs, you know I just I I don't think this inflation things over my friends Commodities are exploding gold silver Cocoa, you know, I mean across the board commodities are exploding so I Expect there to be some surprise issues here coming up that You know the Fed is is is acting like do not exist. So Just a feeling just my spidey senses Thinking that this this inflation thing is not quite over Notes and bonds down 10 year yield popping back up almost to 4.4 oil up for the week Natty gas I'm not gonna go through these other ones, but we'll end on Bitcoin Bitcoin settling in at about 68,000. All right, so let's jump into the trades for the week a little bit of a red week for me I Did not take advantage enough I feel like of the down move and Then I got hurt a little bit on the bounce back because I wasn't expecting such a big bounce back So a lot of those were just in my opinion-based trade. You'll see I'm like my directional futures I I took a pretty heavy bias on those and got smoked pretty good, but Not a bad week certainly not in tune with the first week of the month that I've seen in Previous months this year. So that that's a that's a good thing But here's zero DTE. So a small red on zero DTE. I'll break these down a little bit More individualized so my AM ratio trades Three of those two were losers minus 6k on those My challenge portfolio continues to do really well Regardless of the environment, which is kind of cool So plus 11 8 in my challenge portfolio If I look at each one of those individual Strategies, we've got the want my 1 DTE Three out of four winners plus 3,000 my one to one Plus 3200 my 3 2 plus 1100 My pH only got tron to one and tron to two because toss was having some issues Tronch three would have been a winner as well but plus 2400 on those and then my ricks One small winner or excuse me one small loser that was actually a bot error my bot fired and it shouldn't have so I Turned around and closed it So that was minus 225 then the the other real one was plus 2100 That continues to do well My end-of-day magic my home's trades continue to do well now some of these I'm starting early Like this one that wasn't a true end of day like I teach it, but Still worked out really well, and then $2,000 one there so plus 4500 on my my home's trades for the week No FOMC Doing a 1 DTE hedge now I'm using rut a little bit red For the week, but that's that's doing well JSP's One was Mechanical and that was good for plus 1500 one was discretionary minus 4400 That goes in line with what I was saying about taking an assumption on Friday Indie X A little bit red on the week minus 2500 pH Let's just do all my pH is here. So this is my power hours not including my challenge portfolio Minus 7000 Actually that That is not including. Oh, I know I remember so I had some PM iron condors and some PM tranches that kind of got mixed in with my With my power hour, so actually let me just include those and that'll give a better picture. Yeah, so Still not showing All right, I gotta go I gotta go sort a couple things out here in Trader Sink, but regardless red minus 19 The PNL is all correct. I just got to re-categorize some of these trades because they got grouped together By mistake. All right, so then price action A little bit green on my price action trades 66% win rate a little over 4600 quiet midday tranches All green plus 3000 Rick Rick's outside of my Challenge portfolio plus 4200 and then oh to call calendar. I think just yeah the two one loser one winner small red All right, so that's it for zero DTE Let's go to Directional futures. All right, so these were a these were a source of pain One of my size too large the other ones just I mean, they were just losers I had one big MOC loss minus 5k The others were kind of my Discretionary directional futures so took a hit in that account to the tune of 12k on the week Let's see ducks Yeah, no closing trades. Just a couple of opens Dynamic butterflies One winner one loser. I Actually closed this one thinking it was up. They're tosses having some issues with their PNL display. So I actually I was in a hurry and I didn't have time to Actually figure it out and I thought I was closing that for a winner ended up being a hundred thirty dollar loser, but net net on those two small green and Then dynamic calendars a little bit green for the week Had a B&B 12 small loser just all kind of small losers small winners Nothing nothing even over a thousand bucks on those I do have some good size on that I put on Friday heading into next week So hopefully those do well My calendar Account back at new all-time highs Not all due to calendars, but I'll go over that on the monthly Option selling on the option selling. Yeah, no closing trades there And then lastly portfolio margin Just one closing tray that was a winner as a golden shark the rest of these are still open So that's it my friends everybody have a good rest of your weekend Look forward to some fun trading this week with VIX above 16. Take care. Talk to you soon