Was trading UNH’s range the past few trading sessions.
I started with $13K, got it up to $30K, then back down to $24K (which should’ve been $45K but I forgot to cancel previous sell orders, and within 1 minute of trying to place another sell order it halved… 0DTE with 3 min left on Friday…)
I then used that $24K to buy puts yesterday and kept them after close without realizing UNH’s earnings were this morning…
Genuinely the most retarded thing I’ve ever done. BUT. Trump proposed a 0.09% rise in Medicare insurer payments instead of the expected 4-6% which brought it down 8.65% in after hours. Then, in their earnings call they provided soft revenue guidance making it plummet another 10% where I exited about 5 minutes into today’s session.
So, here we are, still an idiot but $150K richer…