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Sold 2 SPY 190C at 1.21 at 11:10:16 Pacific Time

Yet another long spec. Although the position SPY CC + short fly was already long.

Buy back .86

Sold 2 Sep monthly SPY 199.5 calls at 1.07

The long spec. was user error ( I won't even get into that one.) Still, saw rally potential. Not a bad outcome (so far.) Kinda improvised trade manag. I focused on the call price as a stop. Came close around 16980. As it rallied moved the stop a bit still based on call price. Then...

Out YM at 17005 and ES short weekly at 1.90

Buy YM 17032

Buy 200s SPY @ 200.15

Nap time.

Out 17043

Long YM @ 17035

47 sec. trade. Don't have much stomach for the short side now. Waiting for a long.

Out 17042

Short 1 YM at 17048

Here's another example. During my biotech gambling days, the option prices were often based on some binary event. In some cases, the option prices stayed about the same, vis-a-vis the UL, day after day. No time decay. Not very typical option behavior. This was reflected as a huge increase in...

So the weekly's price was higher than I thought it would be this AM. That just means that yesterday's prices held up well. That's reflected as a rise in IV. No doubt, this close to expiry, there should be some time decay, intraday. That'll be reflected as a drop in IV, but I assure you, it's...

Chicken out at 17010

Short YM at 17015

I'm gonna try a little YM scalp for a change. I had some comments on the weekly, but no time now. It won't be easy to post real time, we'll see.

That's why I covered. I figured it would go lower and was tempted to just leave a limit to cover, but I didn't know if it would hit or if I'd get up for the open. This market is still pretty unfamiliar to me and I didn't want to blow it. So now the position is the monthly short fly and short...