04/21 Daily Summary

Started the MAY journey with the NDX Iron butterfly.

04/21 NDX Iron Butterfly – MAY/10

Started the May trade this morning, as the market was trading higher but seemed to be looking to pull back. Turns out it did pull back a little. I have contingent orders to soften the deltas by adding the long MAY call if needed at 2047, otherwise will ride it without the extra call.

04/19 Daily Summary

If you just look from close to close, there has been little difference, however, if you look at Today’s intra-day action, you’ll notice we were trading quite lower mid-day and rejected those levels pretty fast. The 5-day profile chart has yet to violate the up-swing. Today’s low in my opinion is an important level to watch moving forward.

04/16 Daily Summary

Two back to back 2+ standard deviation days, is volatility coming back? Don’t have any position right now, likely to enter on Monday.

04/14 Daily Summary

Closed both my remaining positions at their stop levels Today. I am actually glad I did get out of them around 2015, it would have been worse otherwise. Will enjoy a few days without anything on, and come back with only one trade next week.

04/14 NDX Iron Butterfly

Here is what I have left on the trade:
2x APR 1900/1825 put credit spread
Reached my stop loss on the trade as we got to 2015, not a good month, specially hard because I feel this could have been avoided or traded differently. Need to go back and review the trade to see where the lessons are. -12.33% result for this month.

04/14 NDX Fast Iron Butterfly (from 03/15)

Here is the inventory of what I have left on this position:
-2 APR 1900/1800 put credit spread
Shut down the position Today early in the morning as it hit my stop level ~2015, turns out I’m glad I did as NDX kept pushing higher to the sky and beyond.. With 2 days to go, will leave the Put spread alone. -12.15%