I had to adjust the October M3s as RUT hit 1145/1146 area. Not something I wanted to see as the upside on these are weaker. I sold 1100/1080 credit spreads and rolled up some of the bottom longs. Of course, about 5 min later the market rolls over to 1138 but the adjustment is down about 1200-1500 right now. Not terrible and I had to do it this close to expiry. The delta and T+0 lines were not in a good place if the move should continue. One of the better technicians I follow expects the RUT to expire in October and around 1190. I take that only modestly into consideration but I do believe there is room for this to continue on. Any more significant up and we’ll have the same sorts of mechanics that we had in October of last year.
I am so happy to soon get out of this trade and move on to December and finalizing November.
One of the 24 equities (though more heavily weighted) I have in my protector portfolio is ALFA which is a great little ETF that follows filings of out-performing hedge funds. I did not realize it hedged itself by going market neutral when the market is below its 200DMA at end of month. Fuck. So I was hedging it since Oct 1 when it was already hedging itself. The ALFA holdings triggered the hedge on Oct 1st and since then has not been participated in the rally. This is one source of my correlation issues. I’m fixing it by replacing it with a normal equity but I will leave it as part of the portfolio since its self hedged. A due diligence error on my part. Though it may end up fine if the market rolls over or stalls around the 195 area.