A surprisingly positive report of new home sales for October plus a 52 week low for the dollar kept the markets in positive territory today, but just barely. The low volume of trading typical preceding a holiday continued today and will likely also characterize Friday's short trading session (trading will close at 1:00 pm ET). The RUT traded mostly sideways today and closed essentially unchanged at $592, while the SPX made a modest $5 gain to close at $1111, just shy of its record $1113 for 2009.

My Dec iron condor now stands at a P/L of +$630, delta = -$84 and theta = +$122. The put spreads are now over two standard deviations OTM and the calls are right at one standard deviation OTM. The Jan iron condor on RUT stands at a P/L of -$100, delta = -$32 and theta = +$81. Holiday weeks are wonderful for income generation traders.

I wish each of you a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families. We have much to be thankful for.