Daily Update – July 2, 2008

Another rough day in the markets and yet another new high for my portfolio.  The portfolio is now up over 20% from the start of my trading, well off the 50% losses I was experiencing only a couple of weeks ago.  Today’s closing trades included profits in XL, LM, CY, and SINA with losses in [...]

Daily Update – July 1, 2008

They weren’t kidding when they said markets generally close higher the first day of the 2nd half of the year.  I was rather disappointed at the bounce this afternoon.  It felt more forced than anything else.  In any event, I went ahead and lightened my put positions a bit by selling off a third of [...]

Daily Update – June 30, 2008

Today looked to be a fairly mild day until about 15 minutes before the close where everything began to tank.  I’ve been running a fairly heavy negative delta portfolio so I benefited quite a bit from the last minute sell off.  I went ahead and trimmed my positions in XL and LM by a contract [...]