{"id":38,"date":"2014-12-15T13:29:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T13:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-12-15T22:27:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:27:06","slug":"dec-15-trade-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Dec 15 &#8211; Trade Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==Update Market Close ==<\/p>\n<p>Another roller coaster day. \u00a0During the open I just couldn&#8217;t get good prices for the spreads. It made sense, the market fell about 30 points and then recovered. We add a lot of adjustments and we&#8217;re heading into tomorrow. \u00a0We&#8217;re slightly delta negative (we don&#8217;t like too much &#8220;up&#8221;) \u00a0and we have an extreme amount of daily time decay. I&#8217;ll close\u00a0tomorrow regardless. \u00a0I can&#8217;t wait to get out of these large MIC trades. Getting tired of them. \u00a0Looking forward to a nicely diversified lower maintenance portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>==Update 9:36 Am EST==<\/p>\n<p>What a perfect open. \u00a0Looking at winding down the trade.<\/p>\n<p>At close on Friday I bought a bit of VNR (vanguard natural resources) as it was trading below book value. \u00a0It was good for about 1500 profit today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an hour before market open and the futures are acting perfectly for my\u00a0trade. \u00a0I&#8217;ll close today or latest tomorrow depending on the volatility collapse in the pricing as we edge near expiration. I&#8217;ll likely scale out through out the day but I don&#8217;t want to over pay to close the\u00a0&#8216;way out of the money&#8217; credit spreads. They expire Thursday and we&#8217;ve got room but at the same time, things \u00a0are volatile and can turn on a dime. I&#8217;ll weigh the options at open (no pun intended)<\/p>\n<p>Right now on SPX we have (SPX currently sitting at 2012)<\/p>\n<p>1920\/1940 Credit Spread<\/p>\n<p>1930\/1950 Credit Spread<\/p>\n<p>On RUT we have (RUT currently sitting at 1157)<\/p>\n<p>1055\/1075 \u00a0Credit Spread<\/p>\n<p>1110\/1090 Credit Spread<\/p>\n<p>They should be able to be closed at a very good prices. I suspect I\u00a0can end this trade at a very healthy return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==Update Market Close == Another roller coaster day. \u00a0During the open I just couldn&#8217;t get good prices for the spreads. It made sense, the market fell about 30 points and then recovered. We add a lot of adjustments and we&#8217;re heading into tomorrow. \u00a0We&#8217;re slightly delta negative (we don&#8217;t like too much &#8220;up&#8221;) \u00a0and we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=38\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dec 15 &#8211; Trade Plan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trades"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IMbd-C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}