Wednesday, August 19, 2009

08/19 Daily Summary

I'll have to simplify the writting on the blog. I have been spending too much time posting, and need to focus a bit more on my trading and the daily job. I noticed I have used this daily summary posting to repeat what I already said in the detailed posting for each position, so from now on, I'll just use this to posting as a daily index to make it easier for people to navigate the current positions I have on in any given day.

Current Positions:
08/19 RUT Iron Butterfly
08/19 MNX Iron Butterfly - SEP
08/19 MNX Iron Butterfly

08/19 RUT Iron Butterfly

No major change in the trade, that's a good thing! Have orders to cut deltas if we move too the break-even points Tomorrow.
Position's History:

08/19 MNX Iron Butterfly - SEP

We backed off from the down-side break-even and now are rolling against the up-side, see how the delta switched in the dashboard.. This tells me I went overboard adjusting to the down-side. For future reference the best thing to do was to cut delta in 1/2 not simply smashing it down. I have contingent orders to sell some of the OCT longs at the levels indicated bellow.

Return to home

08/19 MNX Iron Butterfly

I closed the short 165 call just to be 100% safe, and even though I still have contracts left on the trade, I'll let them expire worthless. The odds are they will. So I'll stop tracking the position and am publishing the results. Of course, I was aiming for a lot more, but it is always better to have some money in my pocket than to have money out of my pocket.