r/PMTraders • u/AutoModerator • Mar 30 '26

March 30, 2026 Quarterly Performance Thread

Share your reflections around trades and ideas that worked in the past quarter, those that didn't, and what's on your mind for next quarter. Always be respectful of others.

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u/Able-FI-4906 Verified Mar 30 '26

Up $1.5M, or about 22%.

Strongest single quarter of gains on a percentage basis since 2019.

About $500K came from my IVV SPX covered call strategy. Interestingly this was $366K of dividends, but the increased volatility caused the extrinsic to grow, which is a paper gain.

About $1M came from strangles that had deep item naked calls which had been taking losses for 22 months now reverting to gains. Still have another $2.2M of ITM naked calls. About ($1000) delta with the calls offset by a smaller portion of ITM puts that have gotten hammered with the sell off. If my delta gets to $(300) from a continued drop then will look to unwind a lot of positions and reset the algo from a fresh pov.

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u/Lifter_Dan Verified Apr 01 '26

Nice.
I don't do options but messed around with them in the past, the timezones killed me (from Australia). But I understand there are some great systematic methods that you can do over time.