I have taken my profit on TGT and now the next rider can climb aboard.  Without seeming too greedy, I decided that though I was really, really, really right in my position with TGT, I could use the money for something more exciting.

I figured that before quadruple witching expiration day, the logical likely number would be triple pre-witching expiration day, making this Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.  That actually makes today, one of only four semi-unique Thursday’s in the year.

MA performed a lot better than I expected it to today.  Not so lucky with JCP.  It closed at $44.01 and the calls closed at around what I bought them for.  I exited my MA call and I’m holding all 10 of my JCP calls overnite.

I didn’t sell AAPL today.  I wanted to, but the constant market fluctuation, keeping it up, kept me from exiting.  Perhaps I should have exited before today when the puts were at $2.05 on the bid (now they are $1.61).  What else…

Yesterday I kept waiting for Mastercard (MA) to go to $194 so I could buy, but it didn’t - it hung around $200 and closed around $201.  Today it started it’s turnaround - it’s a little early, I would have liked stochastics to go down a little more before going for a bottom.  But a turn is a turn and should help it bottom here.

“The race is not to the swift, nor a battle to the strong..”  I heard that quote back in high school (like 95 years ago).  The teacher that told the class that quote was known for being drunk.  He finished the quote by saying “.. but that’s the way to bet.”

First, a reminder to myself: don’t hold RIMM put through RIMM earnings on Thursday.  OK, now onto the day’s predictions or guesses or incorrect thoughts.

Alright, I’m tired so it’s off to bed early for me.  My Forex trade for tonight is buying EUR and sell USD, though I have a scaled back position compared to regular trades.  I’m using a smaller quantity because I’m not too sure about which way the trade will go.

No selling for me today.  I was going to sell some AAPL puts but decided that I would wait until tomorrow to see what happened next.

Three round trips today.  It’s nice to be able to do what I want- I’ll be able to do multiple round trips until my brokerage labels my account a pattern daytrader account, which should be any day now…