My observation of less than 50% probability of engulfing pattern turned out to be right again. I was surprised to see indices futures recovered from last night near 05% drop this morning when I woke up. European market turned things around on possible ECB stimulus action. ES and RUT had a trending day and both crossed last Friday's high. SPX and RUT gained 1.2% and 2.04% respectively. Apparently the sell off of last Friday was a head fake or "bottom fake".
My margin was threatened before open. It was a mistake I didn't deleverage my calls during last week's rollover as I indicated in my weekend review. I had to buy long calls to reduce margin all the way up to closing since SPX was melting up. I also placed orders to sell puts to hedge and collect premium to fund my long calls. I ended up bought 12 SPX low cost calls and sold 5 puts in SPX, SPY and RUT collecting about $500 to get through today.
I may consider to reduce my SPX call size tomorrow and continue to buy long calls if the indices continue to melt up. I am near edges of my risk parameters now. Available fund is under 10K and leverage is above 7.
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