Thursday, June 4, 2009

06/04 Beta-Weighted Portfolio

Hedged but outside the profit making zone. Let's see what Tomorrow brings.

06/04 SPY Double Diagonal

Not much to say here, the double-diagonals are pretty much maintenance free trades. If we hit the adjustment points I know exactly how to handle it.

06/04 DIA Iron Butterfly

This is turning out to be a very maintenance-intensive trade. I may be doing something wrong here. Added a long CALL at the end of the day. On the bright side, we didn't give back too much of the profits we made Yesterday.

06/04 MDY 30-Day Condor

At the end of the day I added a long CALL contract to balance the deltas. There is still theta running, but not as much as I wanted. Hopefully MDY will give back down, the chart doesn't show too much bullish bias.

06/04 RUT 30-Day Condor

RUT is not giving up, Today the position was hurt by a drop in volatility. Need to remember, when you hedge the position, the vega risk is still there. Specially risky on the up-side.

06/04 RUT 50-Day Condor

Trying to do too many things at once at the closing Today, I ended up missing a review of all my positions. This trade needed to either be hedged or exited Today. I am now in a position of hope. Hoping it retraces Tomorrow so I can orderly stop it.