There really isn’t too much to report at the moment. Our passive portfolios continue to impress in the midst of a challenging market which displays the overall power of the passive approach. And I continue to mostly sit on the sidelines in our active portfolios, although that approach will be changing soon. I intend on adding several new positions to the active portfolios this expiration cycle as we are starting to see some good entry prices for several of the companies on our watchlist.

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The Fed-induced rally yesterday has left a few of our positions with deltas that are shorter than we prefer. As a result, I want to buy back our short calls in those positions and sell more premium going out to a higher strike and further out in duration.