The highlight of last week’s Nifty Index 50 moves happened during July 28, 2021. It more than made up for all the deadness since July 22nd. I think law of inertia skews trading psychology of novices in a big way. It definitely got the better of me.
With Friday, Monday and Tuesday being dead days, I had a notion at back of my head that I don’t need to see charts. I can’t be too tough on myself though as I literally had no time to check charts as I was preparing for a job interview. But lesson learnt, I must check charts twice a day if I have open positions or close them if I really don’t have time,
While it is easy to do chart analysis in hindsight, but it was absolutely clear on July 27th that a big move was about to happen. I must remember that this method of option strangle trading is a mix of predictive and reactive analysis. Therefore, I should have closed my positions on July 27th and waited for market to set the direction.
But I did not and July 28th morning never gave me a chance to make any corrections. With job interview from 9 to 10 AM, I checked market by 10:15 and understood I could not do anything. While the Put Options were at a loss of more than 500%, call options were not giving any profit. All thanks to vega.
I checked my blog for making sense of what market was doing. I made some minor adjustment to drawings and patiently waited for market to take bounce. I meanwhile could not help but think that if I would book over Rs. 10,000 of loss, it would mean going back by 3-4 weeks. Luckily, the market respected the expected support level and put options eventually went back in green.
This entire headache could have been avoided if I had made correction on Tuesday itself. This has happened twice now in consecutive weeks. I need to watch charts more carefully and press the exit all button if I am having a bad feeling about stuff. This is like the movie ‘minority report’. I must pre-empt drawdown before it happens because mitigating it later does not work.
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