It’s been a while since I last posted. I will have to change that starting now. The market has been a bit of a bitch but for the year, I am slightly positive with a lot of potential in the trades I am in now. I am extremely happy with that result and felt like the last 6 weeks were my best weeks in trading in regards to risk management and overall trading skill. I feel great about it. I am managing quite a bit of money and the stress of management sometimes can overwhelm but I kept my composure throughout the entire run of volatility and followed my plans to the “t”.
I took the big bounce today as an opportunity to remove most of my “edge case” rhino’s (ones that are a bit past the shorts) and flattened my T+0 lines. I feel good about the positions and we’ve got at on of room on each side with little upside risk and about 5% room to the downside before adjustments. I probably don’t have to do to much for the rest of the month.
I entered some April trades as well, but I positioned them lower to give myself a lot of downside room re the volatility as of late and the upside has little risk as well since the cost of the Bfs were quite low (~$2.30 as compared to the regular $3). The last 6 weeks were stress and some of my earlier positions were obviously compromised but we have ended up in a position of great T+0 flatness and a slightly positive result for the 6 weeks. I can’t ask for more then that and I am loving the potential in the remaining March trades. I am eagerly awaiting the upcoming theta release and am looking to close around 21 DTE (another 2 weeks) for a nice profit!
Throughout the volatility I used bounces to purchase bearish butterflies as a hedge to the Rhinos. This worked really really well. My BB hedges are up more then the Rhinos and I am starting to unwind these.