No, I actually trade more 121s and RTVN-calendars in managed and personal accounts. I may as well trade asym if I am paying the offer. It depends on my projection of price & speed. With sym I am truly looking for a body touch. With asym it's far more complex (drift, decay, var, skew).
Took it to 11% at a new fill of 4.58 https://www.dropbox.com/s/xbxms8v9gnv9p4s/2014-09-16_1243.png?dl=0
I feel pretty good about today; save for neutering the VXX position. Too early on reaching body on SPY and NDX, hence the large Q-hedge. Q-hedge will produce the equivalent of 18 SPX points at the midpoint between my body and wing-strikes (on the upside) on my asym positions, so I am comfortable with the risk, at the moment. It's very difficult to arbitrarily to trade AT NBBO pricing.
I am going to limit my posts to my own personal threads -- or specific content solely related to optionality and trading. No tangents; no bickering with degens. A lot of personal and professional stress and posting here isn't a healthy outlet, but I am committed to completing this journal. Ridding this site of dubious types isn't going to happen (again), so it's a destroyer of productivity. I get 22.5 hrs of sleep during the trading week and that's got to change. Thanks for reading.
Tracking lower on VXX, but above marks on NDX and SPY. QQQ hedge is up enough to cover the entire NDX debit.
EOD update: QQQ hedge is still marked up. All index positions are up, some markedly. VXX still the loser.