Quant & Alpha Trading
Factor research · backtesting · statistical arbitrage · money management
So Close to $15,000: My 9/16/2026 FOMC Three-Day Recap
Over the three days after the Fed's 9/16 meeting I placed 7 options trades and every one of them made money — $2,211.98 in total. But on one SNDK call I sold at $52 and it closed at $194, a position that would have paid $15,176. Here is every fill, and exactly which step I got wrong.
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.