Quant & Alpha Trading
Factor research · backtesting · statistical arbitrage · money management
8/28 Jackson Hole Post-Mortem: My Options Adventure From Making $1,000 to Losing $2,000+ in a Day
A complete, fill-by-fill record of a real intraday options event trade — on the day of the Fed Chair's Jackson Hole speech, I rode the trend to roughly $1,000 of profit in the morning, then refused to cut a losing $580 META call that expired the same day, got force-liquidated by my broker at 2:00, and stacked desperate revenge trades on top in the afternoon — giving back every cent of profit and ending the day in the red. Every buy/sell detail and the full timeline are disclosed.
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