Small Cap Trader. Former Poker Pro.
UK
Joined August 2026
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/October, ended up +$117k which is fine, but a bit disappointing to give up quite a bit of profit in the last 10 days. Even more disappointing is the SC market overall, it has been more dead than I have ever seen it and there is no indication it is about to turn. Though I have spent quite a bit time in the lab in this quiet period, so hopefully something good will come out of it.
Quite frustrating week, barely any good setups and for the one setup #RBNE that would have saved the week I could not get any even remotely affordable locates. Overall down $65k but still up $200k for the month, so can't really complain (yet). Was was worrying though was the insane locates pricing, never seen anything like this in my (admittedly short) time trading.
The most frustrating day. After SC market being dead for days, finally a juicy pop #RBNE but I cannot get any locates at even halfway reasonable price, lost out on trade of the month. Then for #SPHL I send a few locates request to route for absolute maximum I am willing to pay. No reply to either, so I assume they did not fill, until 14 minutes later I get confirmation that I got filled for 3 requests and for double my quote price - $SPHL will have to work hard to get me to breakeven.
SCs have slowed down significantly last couple of days, maybe market focus is somewhere else. Yesterday only $BBCI was of interest, but was too stingy when it came to getting locates early and I missed out on most of a great trade. Today I am only short $XLAB, hoping it will go a bit lower from here.
Record month in $ in September, though not in %. Also nice that there were no really bad days with the worst DD% < 5%. I now started to reduce risk per trade as I am moving away from account growth as my main priority
