Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 31)

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Previous Analysis now publicly available:
Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 26, 2018) 

Recent Trading Activity

- Initiated an October SPX Elephant on Monday. Net credit $1,448.

- Added a new Call side to the RUT Elephant Put side on Monday. Back to a full Elephant position. The original Call side on the September RUT Elephant had been taken off for profits a couple of weeks ago. The new Call side recently deployed brought a new credit of $363.

- Closed Call side of September SPX Elephant on Monday at a $1,098 loss. The market gap up didn't help and I ended up closing it when the SPX was trading around 2,893. Way beyond the proposed defense line of 2,885.

October SPX Elephant (August 27, 2018)

Trade Details:

SELL 20 SPX October 2700/2690 Credit Put spreads @0.60 Credit
SELL   8 SPX October 3010/3020 Credit Call spreads @0.90 Credit

Long hedges:
BUY  8  SPY October 302 Calls @0.42
BUY  1  SPY October 274 Puts @1.36

Total Net Credit: $1,448
Days to Expiration: 52


Risk profile:

SPX Chart for future reference:

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Trade Update (October 2, 2018)

Closed entire position:

20 SPX October 2700/2690 Credit Put spreads @0.10 Debit
Original Credit was 0.60. Net gain of 0.50 per = $1,000

8 SPX October 3010/3020 Credit Call spreads @0.30 Debit
Original Credit was 0.90. Net gain of 0.60 per = $480

8  SPY October 302 Calls @0.11 Credit
Original Debit paid was 0.42. Net loss  $248

1  SPY October 274 Puts @0.23 credit
Original Debit paid was 1.36. Net loss $113

Combining it all:  +1000 + 480 - 248 - 113 = $1119
Max potential profit was $1,448.  So, 77% of the max profit has been taken after 35 days in the position and 17 days to expiration.

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Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 26, 2018)

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Previous Analysis now publicly available:
Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 18, 2018) 

Recent Trading Activity

- No Activity. While working this past week at the Toronto offices it became literally impossible to do anything trading related. My reading of the market was good coming into the week with a bullish bias. All time higs were taken. The previous week's action plan should have been applied: Reopening Call side on the RUT Sept Elephant; deploying first October position. But again, between meetings and a very demanding schedule, I simply had no time to patiently enter orders, wait for fills, write blog articles about it.

Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 18, 2018)

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Previous Analysis now publicly available:
Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 12, 2018) 

Recent Trading Activity

- Initiated SPX September Elephant on Tuesday for $1,438 credit.

- Closed Call side of RUT September Elephant for a $364 profit on Wednesday. There is now a chance to redeploy it on a market rebound.

- Put side of RUT August Elephant expired for a $1,100 profit on Friday.

September SPX Elephant

Trade Details:

SELL 40 SPX September 2650/2645 Credit Put spreads @0.30 Credit
SELL   9 SPX September 2925/2935 Credit Call spreads @0.80 Credit

Long hedges:
BUY   9 SPY September 293 Calls @0.40
BUY   1 SPY September 269 Puts @1.22

Total Net Credit: $1,438
Days to Expiration: 38

Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 12, 2018)

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Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 4, 2018) 

Recent Trading Activity

- Closed the August SPX Elephant Put side on Monday for a $1,100 gain. This Elephant is now entirely closed.

- I tried to initiate a September SPX Elephant on Friday without luck. I tried a few strikes, different widths and credits to no avail. I didn't want to sacrifice a lot of credit, which was small to begin with. I will try to establish a September SPX Elephant again on Monday.

Weekend Portfolio Analysis (August 4, 2018)

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Weekend Portfolio Analysis (July 28, 2018) 

Recent Trading Activity

- No Activity.

I tried to close the September SPX 2430/2440 Credit Put spread (remainder of a former Elephant) but was not lucky trying to close it for 0.05 debit. I also intended to close the Call side of the October RUT Elephant, but had no luck either as I wanted a net +$400 gain on that side. Maybe I was a little greedy. So, summing up, I tried to close these two at different points in the week but did not get filled. I didn't sacrifice price limits on the orders as I was/am not terribly hurried to close these positions.