I finally sold Jun09 spreads, but wider than wished.
Sold 2315 on one of our dips yesterday, and 2455 as we rose to close today.
Roughly 60pts up, and 80pts down. (Huh! Better width than I thought.... now that I see it written down. 10:30pm and I'm still doing homework. MAN I am slow.) Too much risk, too little reward, but I'm got enough written to take the urgency-monkey off my back.
At any event, I still think we're in stair-step mode, and that we're coiling up to pop north. That we're through most S&P500 earnings reports eases mkt pressure to buy, but as others have cited, too much "agenda" in the TRIN/volume/VIX..... and so many non-market stimuli.
There *is* a big fat balloon out there, filled with earnings and "best house in the bad neighborhood" and impotent, impudent Trumpidian Turmoil on taxes and de-reg, and Whoosh! What's gonna happen when everyone remembers THE FED MEETING in 4 weeks? Yipes!
"Well! There's a deflating prospect!"