 Good morning folks, today is October 25th, 2018 Thursday and I didn't get an opportunity to trade yesterday. I did watch the markets but just didn't really like anything and looked like spy really moved to the downside early in the morning but either way here we are on this Thursday morning trying to find a trade looking at Forex Factory. We have a couple things and on the docket we have pending home sales at 10 o'clock eastern time, natural gas storage at 10.30 and then FOMC members are speaking today midday eastern time, all relatively low impact news and let's see where the markets go today. I do see that signal, that green arrow and apple, I don't really like it, the movie averages are not to my advantage. Alrighty I'm going to go ahead and buy some calls here, 268 calls that expire in four days. I'm just going to buy one, let's see here, I bought one call at 281 I believe, about one call at 281, the 268 calls that expire in four days, kind of even right about now. We're getting some momentum here, whoa the option price is going a little crazy, not really liking this action but well it's going. I went ahead and sold, I didn't like the action that was going on, yeah the action was very weird. I mean I did not like it, I sold at 284, yeah it's back down to 279 by 281, you can see here spy off to the far far right and you can see here the option price 278 by 282, you can see here I bought at 281, sold at 284, it was very weird because at one point the option price actually moved to 297, 298 and then quickly came back down 284, 285, 289, I mean it's going, I made three bucks on the day, minus commission fees and of course look where they are trading now, 268 calls, they're trading at $3.22, $3.20 on the bid, I bought in the 281, boy I really need to stick to my guns don't I, a little on the frustrating side but it's okay, there's another day, I lived to see another day, I didn't lose on this trade, I would have been more upset if I lost on this trade but look at that, you can see my signal popped in right here, where did I get in, activity, get in 751, 751 so right at the beginning of this candle right here, so somewhere in here that's where I bought in at 26070s and now it's trading at 268, $3.22 on the bid, $3.27 on the ask, I bought in a 281, that was all because of my signals there, this is awesome, that's okay I did not lose money, I'm happy guys, I'm a happy camper, no I'm not a happy camper, why am I lying to you guys, I just missed out on a great trade again, so frustrating guys I gotta admit to you it is frustrating, I don't know why I lied to you guys while I was actually recording my screen but it's frustrating because I let my emotions get the best of me and now I'm sitting on the floor here next to a door next to the glass, sliding glass door here because it has the best lighting so I apologize but anyways this is as real as it gets guys, I don't think there are very many traders out there that are going to show you just the emotional side of trading, they're not going to show you really what they feel inside and I'm doing it here, there are very few I can think of just not even a handful of traders on YouTube but anyways guys it sucks, it sucks because I'm letting my emotions get the best of me, I'm getting into some pretty awesome trades, you gotta give me credit on that, I gotta give myself credit on that, I'm getting some great entries and the one that I missed out on Monday where I got out and actually was a losing trade, I lost 5 cents on the actual trade, option price, had I stuck with my original trading plan, my original trading strategy, I would have made money, same deal today even though it wasn't a losing trade, I broke even, I made like $1.50, $1.60 whatever we're gonna call that even but overall in my $500 portfolio I'm up, I'm up 26 bucks, that's a tiny bit over 5% so I can't be myself up too bad, I gotta give myself credit, I can't be too hard on myself, it's interesting the sort of psychological sort of trading aspect of trading a small trading account because had I traded with $500 knowing that I have in my trading account $2,500 or even $5,000 losing $50, $60, $70 isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things relatively speaking because I have money to replenish that, the idea is that I have or I keep sort of telling myself I gotta protect my profit, I gotta protect my portfolio and get out, keep my losses relatively small and then just take what I have on the table whenever I'm in profit because if I start losing I can't replenish that as easy guys and I promise you, I shouldn't be saying this but the weird part is whenever I'm gonna get myself into a bad trade because you know it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen fairly soon, I don't hope or wish that it'll happen soon but it's all part of trading when I get into a bad trade I'm gonna hold on to it right because I'm gonna be in that wishful thinking mode of it's gonna come back, it's gonna come back and I'm not gonna actually cut my losses the way that I sort of protect myself to the upside once I'm in a winning trade but anyways guys I just wanted to be extremely real with you guys, this is, again I can't think of any other trader actually doing this and actually showing you the emotional aspect of trading before, during and after the actual trade so don't forget the drawing guys don't forget it ends November 5th all you got to do is send me an email with the subject line round 2 tell me a little bit about yourself about your trading career your trading experience anything you want to tell me pick a number between 1 and 50 on November 7th I'm gonna pick three lucky winners those three lucky winners are gonna have an hour of my time and they're gonna get my signals absolutely free although I am going to go ahead and just put out my signals give them away absolutely free once I get to a thousand subscribers guys so hit that subscribe button share and like my videos guys the faster that I get to a thousand subscribers the faster that you guys get my signals guys like and share don't forget to subscribe thank you so much for watching everybody see you again next time