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The markets opened this morning in positive territory, buoyed by some good economic and manufacturing reports. But that didn't last long and then the selling pulled the market down through most of the day before buyers came in and returned the major indexes closer to where they started the day. RUT ran up to about $570 and then down to $553 before closing almost unchanged at $562. The SPX  closed up about $7 at $1043. And all of this occurred in better than average trading volume. That tells me there is significant indecision in this market; neither the buyers nor the sellers dominated with conviction. But given the volatility of this market, that is likely to change tomorrow.

During the weakness this morning, I decided to roll my Dec 660/670 call spreads down to 630/640. I closed the 660/670 calls for $0.40, netting a gain of $1,100 (20 contracts). I opened 20 contracts of the 630/640 calls at about one standard deviation OTM for $1.20. This left my Dec iron condor on RUT at a P/L of $180, delta = -$50 and theta = +$43. I still have the two Jan $510 puts hedging the downside.