Tuesday, September 15, 2009

09/15 Daily Summary

No major change on my positions Today. I added the second 1/2 on the RUT trade and did not get a fill on the MNX, plan on adding to MNX Tomorrow.


Position's Details:
09/15 RUT Iron Butterfly
09/15 MNX Iron Butterfly

09/15 RUT Iron Butterfly

I added the second 1/2 of the position Today. I decided against adding the hedge to the position right away, if we get to 610 Tomorrow then I'll hedge it.

09/15 MNX Iron Butterfly

No major change Today, I tried adding the 2nd half to the position but couldn't get a fill, will try again Tomorrow.

09/14 Daily Summary

Not much happened, plan on adding the 2nd half of my iron butterflies by end of day Tomorrow. I spent some time in the morning doing a day-by-day review of my SEP trades, will update this post later Today with the IBM and SEP/09 Summary.

Position's Details:
09/14 RUT Iron Butterfly
09/14 MNX Iron Butterfly

SEP/09 Trades
09/14 SEP IBM Calendar (day-by-day review)
09/14 SEP RUT Iron Butterfly (day-by-day review)
09/14 SEP MNX Iron Butterfly (day-by-day review)

09/14 RUT Iron Butterfly

Not much happened on the position, I plan on adding the 2nd 1/2 by end of day Tomorrow.

09/14 MNX Iron Butterfly

Not much happened, the trade recovered slippage and commissions, I plan on adding the 2nd 1/2 by end of day Tomorrow.


SEP/09 Trades

September was much better than August, I had a profitable month even with mistakes made on the RUT Iron Butterfly and IBM calendar positions. I believe that this was a positive month in many ways, and concentrating on fewer positions allowed me to keep a better focus and perform better.

I plan on doing the same allocation for October, carrying over the lessons learned from September allows me to continue to improve.

Here is a day-by-day review of my positions:
09/14 SEP IBM Calendar (day-by-day review)
09/14 SEP RUT Iron Butterfly (day-by-day review)
09/14 SEP MNX Iron Butterfly (day-by-day review)