{"id":416,"date":"2015-03-27T21:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2015-03-27T21:18:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T21:18:45","slug":"mar-27-trade-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Mar 27 -Trade Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t posted in a while. Been busy with the vacation.<\/p>\n<p>This week was pretty interesting. The market fell quite a bit, just look at that daily candle. \u00a0We&#8217;ve ended the week at the same level. Chart taken from Cobra.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-25-at-4.27.53-PM.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-25-at-4.27.53-PM.png?resize=300%2C179\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-03-25 at 4.27.53 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-25-at-4.27.53-PM.png?resize=300%2C179 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-25-at-4.27.53-PM.png?resize=1024%2C612 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-25-at-4.27.53-PM.png?w=1814 1814w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-25-at-4.27.53-PM.png?w=1320 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The protector portfolio is up about 1.5-2% while the market is at 0%. This is because of the alpha picks used. \u00a0It&#8217;s a long hedged portfolio so when the market falls, it falls at about half the rate when we&#8217;re so close to the long put with a delta of 50%. All in all, performing as expected if not better.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Apr MIC is up about 3%, pretty good result considering it went down to 1207 back up to 1267 and then back down to 1225.<\/p>\n<p>We used the big down day as an opportunity to enter the May MIC.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, despite the market now being neutral for the year, we&#8217;re doing well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2508.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-421\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2508.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"IMG_2508\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2508.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2508.jpg?resize=768%2C1024 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2508.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2508.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2519.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-419\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2519.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"IMG_2519\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2519.jpg?resize=300%2C225 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2519.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2519.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2519.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven&#8217;t posted in a while. Been busy with the vacation. This week was pretty interesting. The market fell quite a bit, just look at that daily candle. \u00a0We&#8217;ve ended the week at the same level. Chart taken from Cobra. &nbsp; The protector portfolio is up about 1.5-2% while the market is at 0%. This is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mar 27 -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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,3,5,4,7],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trades","tag-jeep-trade","tag-mic","tag-modidor","tag-modified-iron-condor","tag-weirdor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IMbd-6I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}