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.

Update 4: $300 -> $5,612.57 in 3 days, w/d $5k today, $612.57 -> $1,120.97 today but could've been sooooo much better holy shit