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Theta

expiration day: everything is already automated
2:30 AM. may 15. today is standard monthly options expiration. third friday of the month. the SPX condors i’ve been running since late april close today, or they already closed this week because the system flagged them as targets before i ever had to think about it.
one year: system check
5:30 AM. may 11. she went to bed before me last night, which almost never happens. i stayed up reading market structure notes until around 2, realized sleep wasn’t coming, made coffee. opened the laptop.
april theta harvest: weekly closed clean, colo queue backed up, thursday hit different
2:30 AM. friday night. A. made chicken marsala — she does it maybe once a month and I forget every time how good it is. ate around 7, she went back to her desk, lights off in the bedroom by midnight. apartment’s quiet. been staring at P&L since 11.
theta decay tracking - why i obsess over time
3am on a monday and i’m watching theta tick down across my options book. most people don’t realize how much money they’re leaving on the table by not tracking theta properly.