Finally a down tick lets us cash out the oldest trade ...

It looks like the Trump vs. Comey story is finally affecting the market:

It was down enough this a.m. early for me to finally get the April 17 trade off for a 6.7% profit.

Once again, the trade characteristics are such that there's more room on the downside than the upside. The market was somewhat down on April 17 when I put this trade on and the market's flirting with 2400 the past few days kept it just barely unprofitable. Normally I would have taken it off last Friday, 21 days until expiration (June 2 expiration for these particular options), but I wanted to give it a few days to see if there would be this profitable down move ... and it worked!

The charts are now like this:

Trade Date	Symbol	Result	Profit/Loss	Comment
02/06/2017	SPY	Lost	-18%
02/13/2017	SPY	Lost	-16%
02/21/2017	SPY	Won	+15.4%
02/27/2017	SPY	Won	+17%
03/06/2017	SPY	Won	+15.3%
03/13/2017	SPY	Won	+12.9%
03/20/2017	TLT	Lost	-1.4%	Dumb!
03/27/2017	SPY	Won	+9.6%
04/03/2017	SPY	Won	+6.6%	18 days long
04/10/2017	SPY	Won	+11.1%	only 14 days!
04/17/2017	SPY	Won	+6.7%
04/25/2017	SPY	Open
05/01/2017	SPY	Open
05/08/2017	SPY	Open
05/15/2017	SPY	Open

That's a 72% win rate on these, finally.

The futures trade is doing well also:

Trade Date	What	Qty	Credit Received	Net Liq Change
04/25/2017	/ES Put	-1	$362.50	$0
05/03/2017	/ES Put	-1	$487.50	+$70.00
05/12/2017	/ES Put	-1	$337.50	+$1250.00

More details as they become available!