Ahh, I see. I misunderstood what you meant, like you were ignoring them at peril. Yes, I also believe in being way over-capitalized, as opposed to trying to trade with their minimums as total available capital. I take it back.
Me too. Friday can't come soon enough. Theta drip feels so slow with the amount of gamma on the table. I'd imagine the theta will start pouring in at 2 pm ET this afternoon, but who knows which way the market will move after the Fed minutes.
Never a coincidence that Fed Minutes or FOMC meetings, etc...occur during the BIG OpEx...create a sort of "binary effect" when the herd has all of that gamma risk.
Closed my put spread this morning within the first 20 minutes. I'm still a little short as well--a couple of short ES with covered puts and a bunch of straddles/calendars on individual underlyings which are skewed to the downside.
so is everyone long yet?.. you think the market will have standard deviation of one or greater before elections?.. either way the market is screwed, its just a matter of how many short stops and ultra long VIX ETF buyers it can kill before the nosedive. Best bet is to wait the week before lections to get short and hold the short...............