OpenPositions
Public journal — educational onlyOpenPositions. Open-book options trading, journaled in public.
One page: the market I watch every morning, and the real-money options & leveraged-ETF journal behind it — wins and red months alike.
Today
Two short briefs a day — before the open and after the close. Free, every trading day.
Market dashboard
The same board I check before the open: indexes, fear gauge, yields, gold, crypto, and the dollar — plus funding stress and market breadth.
Market quotes via Yahoo Finance · breadth/funding as of 2026-10-01 · refreshed 09:25 PM
Sector map
Which parts of the market are leading and which are lagging — box size is the sector's weight in the S&P 500, color is performance.
Sector Rotation
Charts
TradingView charts with full indicator toolkit — RSI, MACD, moving averages, drawing tools included.
Technical Analysis
Charts by TradingViewChart and gauge follow the selected symbol. Index presets track the equivalent ETF (e.g. SPY for the S&P 500) — same chart, works in the free widget. Indicators and drawings are available inside the chart — free with TradingView.
Market news
The latest market headlines, refreshed through the day.
Market News
Earnings this week
Roll the week back and forth — who already reported, who's next, and how results landed vs estimates.
Earnings Calendar
Performance — real account
Percentage terms only. This is a real-money account, shown exactly as the journal records it.
Cumulative return, % of starting capital
+61.5%Monthly realized return as % of starting capital. April's dip is shown as it happened — red months are part of the record.
Scope: this journal covers my options and leveraged-ETF trades in my Robinhood account — individual stock holdings are not included.
Method: trades are logged by hand, so an occasional entry may be missed; headline figures come from the account dashboard, reconciled against broker statements — not summed from journal entries, so a missed entry can't move the big numbers. Losing months are included; a trade added late is flagged as such. The equity curve compounds monthly realized P&L as % of starting capital.
Trade log
Closed trades, in full, when the log goes live — including the ones that stopped out.
Full trade log — live in the book
Every closed trade is published in the book with full detail — date, strategy, strikes, credit, close, and result, losers included. Free membership unlocks it.
View the trade logA journal that hides its red months isn't a journal. Stopped-out trades are listed right next to the winners.
Options in 5 minutes
The six ideas you need to read this journal. Plain English, no jargon.
Call
The right to BUY a stock at a set price before a date.
A $100 call lets you buy at $100 even if the stock runs to $120.
Put
The right to SELL a stock at a set price before a date.
A $100 put lets you sell at $100 even if the stock drops to $80.
Strike & expiry
The strike is the deal price; expiry is the deadline.
“$100 strike, 45 DTE” means the deal is struck at $100 with 45 days left.
Premium
The price of the option itself — what the buyer pays the seller.
Sell a put for $2.50 and you collect $250 per contract, up front.
Credit spread
Sell one option, buy a cheaper one further out — you keep the difference.
Short the $100 put, long the $95 put: the most you can lose is $5 minus what you collected.
Delta & DTE
Delta ≈ how likely the option ends in the money. DTE = days to expiry.
0.16 delta ≈ a 16% chance the put ends in the money; 45 DTE = 45 days to go.
That's the whole vocabulary this journal uses. Everything above the fold — spreads, deltas, DTEs — is built from these six ideas.
Payoff visualizer
Drag the slider — see how each strategy makes or loses money as the stock moves. Check the IV rank first: it tells you whether premiums are rich or cheap right now. Illustrative examples only.
Short $100 put / long $95 put · $1.80 credit
Payoff at expiry for a textbook example — no commissions, no early assignment, no implied-volatility moves. Real trades are messier; that mess is what the journal is for.
The system
Mechanical rules, followed weekly. Boring on purpose.
Behind the numbers is a small set of mechanical, rules-based option systems — same setups, same risk rules, every week. The edge, if there is one, is discipline: no heroics, no renegotiating with the market.
The full playbook — members only
Exact entry setup, profit targets, stop rules, and position-sizing caps are published to members. The public journal proves the record; the playbook explains the machine.
Read the playbook — free membershipWhat's public here is a record of what I did, not how I decide it — and never a recommendation for what you should do.