u/SunriseSurprise

https://soundcloud.com/roseburns/island-girl

Would love any feedback, but some questions:

1. This will sound silly, but what genre is this? lol I'm so bad at figuring out genres. Alt rock? Indie rock? Pop rock? Some specific sub-genre? I started with metal, shifted to alt rock and then it feels like within alt rock over to this kind of sound more closely on a lot of my recent songs, so trying to figure out what exactly it is

2. 2nd verse ("All the surroundings...") coupled with the chorus is what makes this song unique as you'll see. Does it feel too out of left field or does it work?

3. One of the more lasting successful songs of this century, Mr. Brightside, entirely repeats the 1st cycle of lyrics a 2nd time and that's the song. But whenever I do it including on this song, I can't get away from it feeling lazy. Does it work okay with this? I can figure out more lyrics but it's a bit hard to continue it after what happens in the 2nd verse/chorus as it'll be hard to not turn it into an entirely different song

4. Musically does it feel too repetitive?

TIA!

Rose Burns - Freak You Are: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6cnbNHbHtGgNLJWtv51WgV

https://open.spotify.com/track/4Qam5QULcrXk2zaJTumtrW

Album just soft-launched today and this is first single - wife's health issues magnified over the past month so I abandoned doing any sort of pre-release marketing for it. 25+ year songwriter, original song + lyrics covered via Suno. The original song for this I made 20 years ago. Enjoy.

So if looking at overall money since the initial deposit, $300 -> ~$9.200 -> ~$4,500 -> ~$6,120 -> ~$5,385. $5k of that safely in bank. I resisted the urge to deposit towards the end of the day, though it would have helped depending on timing.

I was down to $207 at one point. On one hand, clearly going puts from the start of the day ended up not working. I COULD have gotten out of them ever so slightly profitably before the slow bleed up after the morning dip and didn't, which was a big mistake *slaps wrist*. I myself said take whatever profits you can from puts because there's always market pressure to go up, then I didn't.

Having said that, I managed the shitstorm well I think. Despite only checking in periodically the entire day til around 2:30 or so, at times I moved my positions further in the money, which yes did commit me to full port and I lost more from the point of doing that, but not neeeearly as much as I would've lost if I didn't do that. My initial puts were 752s, which were worth toilet paper by EOD. That's why you try not to double down on the same position if you can avoid it, unless it's still ATM/ITM. I ended up with yes fewer puts, but ITM most of the later part of the day at 756. This otherwise would've been "lol I lost it all", but I didn't, and even with today's disaster of a day, I have over $300 which is more than what I started with, plus $5k banked, and despite late 1dte shenanigans to get a bit more back, I got out of them so I'm not holding overnight.

I did give up on the puts before EOD. I just didn't believe if there was a significant drop it would come before 3:45pm when RH would force them closed. I was right but I still probably could've waited a bit longer to get rid of them. I did also mistime the calls coming back up. and yes like a degen, put in a position at 3:44pm trying to make a quick buck and it force sold for the same price at 3:45pm.

Days like this are the absolute worst for the swing strategy I use, and I did say this day could happen like it did. I was doubtful of it still but having that in the back of my mind is why I have nearly $400 vs. a bag of pennies.

Hopefully this will stop the DMs wanting me to help with trades but probably not, haha.

100% of my plays were SPY 0DTE and end of day 1DTE calls and puts playing swings, intending for short-term in-and-outs but have had to hold longer than I wanted to sometimes.

Was actually up to nearly $9,300 yesterday but entered into puts way too early towards the end of the day and wasn't moving the strikes back like I should've when it wasn't moving my way, so I lost almost $3,700, which nearly erased what I made from Trump's attack cancellation tweet. But I'll take over 20x in 3 days.

P.S. to be clear, I withdrew $5k at the start of today, leaving myself with $612.57 and turned that into the $1,120.97 I have left.

I know sighing at this kind of return seems ridiculous on the surface, but let me count the obstacles in my way today:

1. Wife has been sick with all sorts of stuff and today was a very time-consuming day on my part. I got about 15 mins on phone and maybe hour and a half on computer, and in total maybe an hour of that was looking at trading.
2. Part of that was missing the morning, and god damnit. I was coming into today wanting to do puts in the morning, and seeing overnight it dipped negative and went very positive coming into the trading day, that was absolutely going to be my play. The descent happened very quickly so I likely would've caught most of it.
3. On top of that, I would've likely rode things back up too - at least scalped some of that. So I missed 2 huge legs this morning
4. 2 and 3 really threw me off. At the point I got into things, it was still coming back up and had come back up quite a ways, so I dug into puts...too early. And with only just over $600 to work with, mistiming is bad. I doubled down and had to ride it out. That could've ended this disaster if it simply kept going up the rest of the day, but I knew the day wasn't going to be that simple with SPCX coming later.
5. In the midst of all of this I had the realization I should've just waited for the SPCX IPO window starting at 11:30am to short. Look at what fucking happened starting 11:30am. I was dead on with that and FWIW I waited because of that and closed out of the puts positively, but god damnit.
6. When SPCX finally IPO'd, RH on the web was borked. It became borked as I was trying to put in another call, which would've been literally at the fucking bottom. Order failed twice, tried refreshing and it wouldn't load. Didn't occur to me then to check the app. That alone I probably missed on $100-ish gain.
7. If it's not evident by me saying "another call", I mistimed a call riding things back up. Whoops.
8. Even when RH web was back, shit was laaaaaaaggggggging. I'm looking at the 1-sec chart in Legend (the only reason I use it at this point now that it's lagging like crazy) and sometimes shit would not move for 5-20 seconds, sometimes right when I put in an order. That led to me later in the day taking what little profits I could on plays. Sometimes to my benefit but yea.
9. I have to look but I think it may have only been towards the end of the day when I was back at the computer for a longer time that I was actually successfully making quick in-and-out plays.
10. Thanks to RH laggyness, I couldn't get out of all of my calls at the end of the day as quickly as I wanted when that burst up happened. I was shocked I got as good of a fill on the lower ones. The higher ones likely went to well over $1 each but in the end, I got out of them for a sharp loss because I got tired of waiting for a rebound. The day was good enough otherwise, fuck it.

So yea, crazy ass day in many ways. I have no idea what half of these bursts during the day were other than one of the bursts up being from Iran saying "closer than ever".

Really wish I made it to 2x, and I WAS there briefly but RH lag f'd me late and I lost probably $200+ just from that and then not closing the remaining calls more immediately when they were close to what I paid. Oh well, enjoy.

Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/comments/1u2kxkr/yesterday_300_33_770_into_today_382_2494_ended/

Update 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/comments/1u30j3l/update_now_in_just_over_48_hours_300_deposit/

Update 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/comments/1u36ai0/update_2_300_882375_in_about_52_hours_thank_you/

Update 3: https://www.reddit.com/r/smallstreetbets/comments/1u3a7uh/update_3_did_this_just_to_stop_the_dms_still/

Forgot rule #1 - market always *wants* to go up, and Trump's tweet gave the excuse to turn what should've otherwise been a bearish day to build momentum at the end of the day. Was thinking the PPI news would shift back into focus after the novelty wore off but newp.

I kept following up puts with more puts leading into EOD and simply ran out of time for it to go my way. EOD 0DTE options aren't always the best of ideas for that reason. It's not like things moved so far against the play but when there's no time, it doesn't matter - your shit loses money on sideways action too.

That's the problem sometimes when you get a bug in your head, like being close to $10k and wanting to make it there. Realistically after Trump cancelling the Iran attack, should've just taken the immediate plays after and then stopped for the day, which would've put me around $8,800 or so IIRC. Instead I flew too close to the sun in circumstances where it wasn't clear what was going to happen - not a good move.

But could've been worse. I was down under $5k and did some meager plays after to build back up to this.

Will be withdrawing $5k and then continuing with the remainder and maybe will make another run like this, we'll see. So $300 -> $5,000 in real cash still, can't complain.

Now stop DMing me unless you want me to teach you how to lose over $3,600.

Edit: I commented the full trade history from deposit to now. So you can see how I shit the bed towards end of today too. I got lucky along the way too, especially in the overnight holds. I didn't intend to have overnight holds but I made bad plays EOD the last 2 days. Smarter today - no holdings because I'm cashing out the $5k.

Edit 2: It's worth noting despite all the trade activity, I was not literally sitting there with eyes glued to screen the entire day. I try not to leave with positions open but sometimes if it's moved against me, I'll let it sit longer so I might get up at those times. Otherwise I run a separate business too so I have other shit to do during the day.

Edit 3: Analysis from Claude:

"Overall Plays (each time I played a direction): 63

Hits (profit): 60

Misses (loss): 3

Rate: 95%

How often the market moved against you (you had to add to position): 22 of 63 plays (35%). You recovered 19 of those 22 to green. So your averaging-down rescue worked ~86% of the time it was needed.

Blunt caveat — the 95% flatters you. Two trades define the whole period:

• Your single best play: +$4,304 (the 727/728 calls on Jun 11). *Trump's Iran cancellation*
• Your single worst: −$4,015 (a put load-up on Jun 11 you dumped for scraps — 7 adds, didn't recover) *my dumbassery towards the end of the day, and at one point that loss was around $4,700 or so but it moved my way towards the end. For what its worth, I was emboldened to make this stupid move by the earlier big gain and wanting to reach $10k, don't do what I did*

The other two "misses" were −$33 and −$17, basically noise. So really you had one loss that mattered, and it nearly erased a day that one winner had carried. Your hit rate is high because the add-strategy converts most would-be losers into tiny wins — but it also means your risk lives in the tail: the rare play that doesn't recover is huge relative to the dozens of small wins."

tl;dr: the 2 big plays today aside, I did still methodically grow the account by lots of smaller trades

SPY up over 3 points since what these were priced at. Good thing because I mistimed the 727s :/