Friday 25 September 2015

Backtesting 2015 - Sep 25, 2015 Entry

On September 25, 2015 the market was down and Average IV was 21.2% at the time of entry around 10:30am.



Trade entry:



Risk graph:



Adjustments:

  • Sep 28 - Sold 6 x 1090 Put Verticals to protect t+0 downside risk
  • Sep 29 - Sold 3 x 1080 Put Verticals to protect t+0 downside risk
  • Sep 30 - Sold 1 x 1120 Put Verticals to protect t+0 upside risk
  • Oct 5 - Sold 2 x 1120 Put Verticals to protect t+0 upside risk
  • Oct 15 - Sold 2 x 1130 Put Verticals to protect t+0 upside risk
  • Oct 23 - Sold 2 x 1130 Put Verticals to protect t+0 upside risk
  • Oct 28 - Sold 2 x 1140 Put Verticals to protect t+0 upside risk
  • Nov 2 - Rolled the BF up 50 pts
    • Split the Short side of the BF into 10 x 1160, 5 x 1170, 5 x 1190 to protect t+0 upside risk
  • Nov 6 - Sold 4 x 1180 and 1 x 1200 to hedge upside t+0 risk
  • Exited the trade slightly lower than Max Profit target at +$2136 (b/c I was running out of runway with 9 DTE combined with high Gamma risk)