I was hoping to keep this position on longer, but decided to close it to reduce some in my portfolio. The market rallied pretty hard last week, leaving me with some heavy Today, the financial stocks exploded and my KRE position brought my directional risk even higher – more so than I'd like. XLB happened to be making money today and was my most profitable position. It also had some heavy short delta so I decided to lock it in just in case the market continues to rally. Doing this softened my delta by nearly 20% and freed up over $1000 in With a level barely over 1, this position was not very capital efficient by any means... especially because I was only aiming to make $0.10 more. I may be short of my target but when it comes to managing risk, I prefer to claim profits as my first line of defense.
As far as the sea legs experiment goes (my original strategy)... I think it went exactly according to plan. The primary disadvantage was less for my but the primary advantage was faster and more favorable dynamics. My were never however, so there are still some unknowns. I certainly plan to try it again when the next opportunity presents itself. Trial 1 was profitable, so I will consider it a viable strategy for the time being.