Monday 13 Apr 2026 Morning Notes

No trades of note last week other than my USO brick which I still can't figure out why I wouldn't think to take delivery of USO on my short puts, but that's the nature of the beast. Earnings season ramps up this week and it's going to be very interesting to see what, if any, guidance companies are putting out there. It's also April monthly opex week so everything is a weekly.  

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Follow through names to watch: USO, CAR, CF

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Thursday 09 Apr 2026 Morning Notes

So I ate my loss in USO on the open yesterday, only to watch my position close for a win by end of day. Classic. If I wasn't half asleep, I should have taken delivery of long USO, then flipped it or sold calls against it until it invariably ripped higher. So it goes.

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Wednesday 08 April 2026 Morning Notes

Getting my teeth kicked in on this Trump TACO. The worst part is, I took a position expecting Trump to TACO, then reversed course and flipped the trade for a small profit and took the opposite side with a short 125/105 put spread and long the 175 calls in USO. I'm now convinced that the Pakistan strait opening was done via the US to mitigate Trump's North Korea-like "end civilization" comment. This is going to be a rough one, but that's trading.

I'm mostly frustrated that I manage to end up on the complete opposite side of these moves. You'd figure I would be due to land on the right side through nothing other than dumb luck, yet the market Gods haven't permitted that to happen. I still contend that one of these trades will hit and will more than make up for these bricks.

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Monday 06 Apr 2026 Morning Notes

Can we just talk about the INSANE tear CAR is on?!?! G-d damn stock is up +116% in the past 10 trading sessions, or +3.5b in mkt cap. Wild. The story now is Iran, will look to potentially establish a new position in USO spreading vol, we'll see.

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Thursday 02 April 2026 Morning Notes

Flipped a 47/45 1x2 put spread in NKE for +24% and the 152.5 straddle in PM that I flipped for +30% yesterday. Watched the straddle run for better than +60% and the ratio spread run for over +100%, so it goes. 

I hate to sound pessimistic, but between the mess in private credit and the oil markets, it kind of seems like there's plenty 

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Follow through names to watch: NKE, CAR, PM, LW,

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