Royg, Some questions about your set-up, etc.
(1) What is your monitor set-up. Do you have multiple monitors, i.e. one for charts and another for trading and toggle between the two with mouse?
(2) Stockchart has lowest refresh rate of 15 sec. Do you keep on manually refreshing or 15 sec is sufficient for 1 minute chart?
(3) Do you use market order or limit orders?
(4) For Friday, is the strike selection based on nearest in the money with minimum premium as premium depreciates fast near end and also the liquidity of the strike price, so that it is easy to get in and out? What else to consider?
(5) Do you set up a trailing stop after you are in the money or manually trail it.
dk