I was able to get a nice fill on a DIA trade earlier this week. Click in to see the details.

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Here we go again. It’s just about option expiration Friday and it’s looking like the papermoney and my personal positions are all shaping up to be quite nice. I’ve also put out a few orders for a few new May positions, basically copying the current April ones and rolling them out. I’ll [...]

Tags: dia,rut,spy
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With about a week to go until expiration it’s time to give an update on my current positions.
Papermoney
The papermoney positions for this month are in great shape! As I write this post on Sunday, the last trade on the
DIA(114.56 +2.21) was at 123 and the
SPY(126.67 +2.25) at 133. Those two quotes [...]

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What is that??? Yes indeed I just just finally put on a new trade. I know it has been quite some time, but I figured it was time to get my feet back in the game. This play is a little more on the aggressive side, but I think it will work out [...]

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Filled and completely in cash in the papermoney account now.
$163,375.15 in papermoney cash that is.
Not a bad month.
I’ll keep looking to see what is out there for new positions.  Until then, it’s time to count the profits.

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I’ve placed orders to close each and every one of my basket positions.  The only one that is going to cost a decent amount of money is the
VIX(23.01 -0.05) spread.  I’m goign to have to pay around $0.15 to buy those back.
Given the recent gyrations in the market, I’m ready to close these down [...]

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So far, so good!  Today the ‘basket’ of positions I opened on the 23rd gained another $2,500 of so of value.  As the
VIX(23.01 -0.05) continues to plummet and the indexes move further into positive territory move money moves into the account.
Most of the positions are now worthless, so I’m planning to spend a little [...]

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Well, well, well… That was a pleasant surprise closing in the markets today.
Let me update you on the paper money portfolio.
This morning, right after the opening when things were in the toilet I was filled on all five of my positions. Of course, having a great broker I received price improvement all every last [...]

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Okay… So I think this is the bottom.
Could I be wrong?  Yup… If I am I may blow through about 100K of the paper money account, however I don’t think that is going to happen.  I’m working on a series of positions right now.  They are along a ton of different ‘minis’.
When I get fills [...]

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