February 2015 Results

Trades: 33
Winners: 15
Losers: 12
Break evens: 6
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Total Gains: $917.50
Total Losses: $-4,145.20
Avg Gain: $61.17
Avg Loss: $-345.43
Biggest Gain: $360.00
Biggest Loss: $3632.70
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Trade Net: $-3,190.20
Commissions: -$227.17
Short term Trading Net: $-3417.37
Month Net: $-3417.37
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I bit the bullet on a S&P strangle trade that I had been rolling over since September.  If I had not screwed up on managing the trade - the loss would have been a lot smaller.
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It is hard to look at this month and say it was a good month. Remove the strangle trade and I would have been up $300 on the month.  That also includes I had dug myself a $300 hole in the frist couple of trade so the rest of the month was good for me.  But still it seems silly to say you had a good month losing over $3400.
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The only saving grace is that the IRA does mark to market on commodity option trades so most of this loss landed on last years tax return.