{"id":1134,"date":"2016-02-12T23:58:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2016-02-12T23:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T23:58:10","slug":"feb-12-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Feb 12 &#8211; Been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted. I will have to change that starting now.  The market has been a bit of a bitch but for the year, I am slightly positive with a lot of potential in the trades I am in now. I am extremely happy with that result and felt like the last 6 weeks were my best weeks in trading in regards to risk management and overall trading skill.  I feel great about it. I am managing quite a bit of money and the stress of management sometimes can overwhelm but I kept my composure throughout the entire run of volatility and followed my plans to the &#8220;t&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>I took the big bounce today as an opportunity to remove most of my &#8220;edge case&#8221; rhino&#8217;s (ones that are a bit past the shorts) and flattened my T+0 lines. I feel good about the positions and we&#8217;ve got at on of room on each side with little upside risk and about 5% room to the downside before adjustments. I probably don&#8217;t have to do to much for the rest of the month.<\/p>\n<p>I entered some April trades as well, but I positioned them lower to give myself a lot of downside room re the volatility as of late and the upside has little risk as well since the cost of the Bfs were quite low (~$2.30 as compared to the regular $3). The last 6 weeks were stress and some of my earlier positions were obviously compromised but we have ended up in a position of great T+0 flatness and a slightly positive result for the 6 weeks. I can&#8217;t ask for more then that and I am loving the potential in the remaining March trades. I am eagerly awaiting the upcoming theta release and am looking to close around 21 DTE (another 2 weeks) for a nice profit!<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the volatility I used bounces to purchase bearish butterflies as a hedge to the Rhinos. This worked really really well. My BB hedges are up more then the Rhinos and I am starting to unwind these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I last posted. I will have to change that starting now. The market has been a bit of a bitch but for the year, I am slightly positive with a lot of potential in the trades I am in now. I am extremely happy with that result and felt like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/?p=1134\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feb 12 &#8211; Been a while<\/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":[26,28,29,27,33,31,32],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trades","tag-bearish-butterfly","tag-john-locke-m3","tag-john-locke-rock-trade","tag-john-locke-trades","tag-rhino-m3","tag-rhino-m3-trade","tag-rhino-trade"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IMbd-ii","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelsandtrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}