Closing (Margin): /MCL March 16th 65/101 Short Strangle... for a .94 debit.
Comments: Taking profit where I can ... . Filled this pair of legs for a total of 1.27 in credits. Closing out here for .94 results in a .33 ($33) profit. The remaining position leans slightly short, so I may go ahead and do a delta adjustment here.
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Closing (Margin): /MCL March 16th 58/108 Short Strangle... for a .48 debit.
Comments: Collected a total of .69 in credits for this pair of legs. Closing out here for a small (.21/$21) winner to free up buying power in the event I have to do an additive adjustment later. Net position leans a smidge short delta, so don't need to do an adjustment here at the moment.
Closing (Margin): /MCL March 16th 61/103 Short Strangle... for a .73 debit.
Comments: Net delta neutral subtractive trade to take off a little risk here, particularly since we still have quite of bit of time to go in the cycle (55 DTE). Filled the legs for a total of 1.03 in credits; closing out here for a .73 debit results in a .30 ($30) profit.
Closing (Margin): /MCL February 15th 67 Short Put... for a .27 debit.
Comments: Since I've exited the position that this leg was providing a little long delta assist to, closing it out here for a small winner. Filled for a .54 credit; out here for a .27 debit. .27 ($27) profit. I'm now all out in the March cycle which, for the moment, is net delta flat to slightly short.
Closing (Margin): /MCL February 15th 77/84 Short Strangle... for a 3.89 debit.
Comments: Taking a small loser on this tight short strangle with 27 days to go, which I'm fine with since I'm net up on plays in this instrument for the February cycle. Filled the legs for a total of 3.32 in credits; closing out here for 3.89 results in a .57 ($57) loss.
Opening (Margin): /MCL March 16th 65/107 Short Strangle... for a 1.09 credit.
Comments: Here, delta balancing my March position by selling a +9 delta put at the 65 strike and a -6 delta call at the 107. I'll look to sell more "normal" strikes for my typical setup once I clean up the remainder of my Feb positions.
Opening (Margin): /MCL February 15th 77 Short Put... for a 2.13 credit.
Comments: An additive delta adjustment trade, which is a functional roll-up of what was my 74.5 short put. At this point, I'm fine with taking a loss on this very narrow short strangle, so long as I'm net up for the cycle on my /MCL trades, but would naturally prefer to scratch it out. Still keeping on the 67 short put for the moment, as it's providing a smidge of long delta.
Closed (Margin): /MCL February 15th 74.5 Short Put... for a 1.48 debit.
Comments: Doing a functional roll up with this leg, which I got paid 1.76 in credit for. I'm first closing this leg out for a .28 ($28) realized gain and then will re-erect a "delta appropriate" short put higher up the strike ladder to delta balance against my 84 short call.
Closing (Margin): /MCL February 15th 68/93 Short Strangle... for a .98 debit.
Comments: Although I've still got 30 days to go with this, taking it off in small profit without affecting net delta much (the 68 was at the +11 delta, the 93 at the -10), leaving me with the fairly narrow 74.5/84 to manage in the Feb cycle, along with a far out-of-the-money short put at the 67. I'll leave that short put on here since I still need its long delta at the moment.
Collected a total of 1.24 in credits for the 68/93, so closing out here for .98 results in a .26 ($26) profit. I generally like to wait for at least .50 ($50) to take these off, but am already up decently on my /MCL trades for the month, so feel okay with taking small profit here, simplifying the position, and freeing up the buying power to get ready to move into the next cycle.
Opening (Margin): /MCL March 16th 61/109 Short Strangle... for an .85 credit.
Comments: An additive delta adjustment trade, selling the -4 delta call and the 8 delta put against my +4 delta put and -8 delta call. I probably really didn't need to do an adjustment here given the low delta of the sides I had on in March, but wanted to collect some additional credit, particularly since the time left in the February cycle is winding down.
Opening (Margin): /MCL February 15th 67 Short Put... for a .54 credit.
Comments: An additive long delta adjustment trade, selling the +10 delta put. February position still leans a smidge short here with 33 days to go.
I'm indicating that this is "long" here because the delta of the position is long, not because I think oil goes up from here.
Opening (Margin): /MCL February 15th 68/93 Short Strangle... for a 1.24 credit.
Comments: An additive long delta adjustment trade, selling the 68P at the +14 delta strike and the 93C at the -9, giving me net +5 in delta to flatten the directionality of the position. It still leans slightly short, just not as short as it was before.