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I missed a lot on this thread the past couple days. My take away is to somehow get under Dest’s skin to get a payout proposition.

Interesting P/L breakdown YTD through yesterday. I crashed and burned with ES by taking on too much short risk mid-February.

I don’t agree with the last part of the statement. It’s not about seeking safer assets but rather exercising a view on interest rates.

Still another hour left in RTH, but it's going to warm up to above freezing so I'm going for a run. P/L on ES seems a little off--I'm down a few thousand so not sure what's wrong with that print. I still like the steepener, but I closed the position for now. It was a spectacular day for that...

^ Yup. Pick your poison.

Middle of last week, markets believed the next Fed move would be +25-50 bps. It's now +0-25 bps. Things might not be breaking just yet--but there is a crack starting to form. I'm betting that the Fed is done hiking rates.

I’ve been browsing Netflix for the past 15 minutes trying to figure out what to watch. Rounders it is on AMZN Prime!

Another massive steepening move in the yield curve. Are we on the path to a positive slope in the TUT? I’m sitting tight on this position.

I'm back after a brief posting hiatus. I need to figure out how I want to use this journal. Posting everyday became somewhat exhausting while posting every three weeks doesn't satisfy the point of the journal. I've had somewhat of a life event. I removed myself from the corporate world in...

I won’t go into detail on account size (it’s just a fun account anyways) but this week was definitely atypical. I’ve had 20% DDs in the past while my largest DD from my HWM YTD was $40k (but only because I was stupid which you’ll see three or so weeks ago). The stars were aligned for me this...

So ends a very good (but volatile) week. Today was the second five-figure +P&L day of the week for the account. All my positions worked out, especially the SPX calendar. I threw in a tiny ES scalp but spent the day with my kids since they had the day off. It's a long weekend on both sides of...

With vol bid in the morning, I re-entered into my short ES/short puts position. I thought I was a genius mid-day. My P/L was $10k higher two hours ago, but at least it was a green day. Another day, another dollar with GC and the large theta with the short-term short calls. Portfolio theta is...

I was away from the screen all day except for the last hour of RTH--it was too nice a day to not be outside! Pretty quiet trading day. I did what I could do defend the GC move over night--I played both defense and offence--moved some calls down. Closed the ES position with VIX in the low 18s...

It was another swingy day as I sized up on GC and was in and out throughout the day. I currently have my long GC/short calls position on--very short term with the calls expiring February 23. I feel like we're going to be stuck between 1850-1900 for a bit. It ended up being a great day for me...

@destriero: What's your short VX/short ES ratio?

Decent day in ES and NQ. Scalped around some NQ positions (strangle and futures). Cleaned up my positions a bit. Closed GC (scalped a couple times overnight) and the NFLX diagonal. Bond position is straight long now--both the 2s and the 10s. Of course the yield curve continues to go up and...

I closed my put calendar yesterday for a tidy profit, so my only ES/SPX position is short ES and short puts. I got long at 4120 and am still long at the close. I legged into a short-term (February) NQ strangle at the close. Despite the negative P/L in GC, I thought I traded it well. I...

Definitely could have been a much worse day. Rolled up some ES puts but more importantly, I unloaded the SPX 4000 put calendar (ES = 4115; VIX = 19.64). I bought a 4100 put calendar an hour later (ES = 4155; VIX = 18.75). I was actually long ES/SPX @ES = 4100 but quickly lost those deltas 30...

It's been an eventful past few days. It's been awfully busy on the personal front but I feel that being away from the screen and not constantly looking at the market is better for my well-being. I was glued to my phone on Friday. I was shorter than I should have been and was pissed that the...