Week of Sep 7–Sep 13, 2026
Labor Day closed the market Monday, and the four real trading days that followed were about as quiet as this record gets: four SPX 0DTE credit spreads, five separate positions counting Thursday’s two, every one of them expiring worthless for a real $639.04. No stop-outs, no reopens, no story that needs untangling. The /ESZ6 strangle from late August sat exactly where it was left, untouched. There isn’t a lesson to force out of a week like this one, so this entry reports it plainly instead.
Week net, realized
+$639.04
Four trading days (Mon closed for Labor Day), five spreads, all expired worthless
/ESZ6 strangle
untouched
2-lot position opened Aug 27, still running, no activity this week
The four trading days
| Date | Trade | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Sep 7 | Labor Day, market closed | No trading |
| Tue Sep 8 | SPX 7710/7730 call credit spread, 2 lots, 0.90 credit | Expired worthless. +$173.12 |
| Wed Sep 9 | SPX 7690/7710 call credit spread, 2 lots, 0.60 credit | Expired worthless. +$113.12 |
| Thu Sep 10 | SPX 7635/7655 call credit spread, 2 lots, 0.65 credit, plus a second SPX 7640/7660 spread, 1 lot, 1.00 credit | Both expired worthless. +$123.12 and +$96.56, combined +$219.68 |
| Fri Sep 11 | SPX 7585/7605 put credit spread, 2 lots, 0.70 credit | Expired worthless. +$133.12 |
Tuesday’s fill took five separate orders before it went through, strikes walked in gradually as the afternoon wore on before landing at 7710/7730 for a 0.90 credit. Every other day filled inside one or two tries. None of it changed the outcome; all five spreads still expired clean.
What moved the market this week
Tuesday opened a real, dated stretch of weakness: the S&P 500 fell about 0.4% to close at 7,718.41, as Brent crude topped $101 a barrel on rising Middle East tensions and the 10-year Treasury yield pushed toward a two-decade high, part of a slide that ran three, then four sessions in a row. Friday broke it: August’s CPI print landed in line with expectations, and equity buyers stepped back in, halting the slide and helping the S&P close out the week essentially flat, up about 0.1%, with the Nasdaq up 0.4% and the Dow down 0.3%. This account’s call credit spreads on Tuesday through Thursday were sold into exactly the kind of weakness that keeps a call side safely out of reach; Friday’s put spread was sold into the recovery, the same safer-direction logic.
Tue Sep 8, S&P 500
-0.4%
Closed 7,718.41; oil topped $101/bbl on Mideast tensions, 10Y yields near a two-decade high
Week overall, S&P 500
+0.1%
Recovered after Friday's in-line CPI print snapped a four-day slide
Takeaway
$639.04, four trading days, five clean spreads, nothing to manage and nothing to second-guess. Worth noting plainly rather than dwelling on: this stretch also pushes the current win streak to 19 trades, past the 14-trade high a piece published earlier this week already put real numbers behind, math that says a run like this is closer to expected than rare at this account’s win rate. That’s the honest context for a genuinely good week, not a reason to read anything more into it than what actually happened: four clean days, and not much else to report.
Frequently asked questions
How did this account do the week of September 7, 2026?
Up $639.04 in realized trading. Monday, September 7 was Labor Day, markets closed, no trading. Tuesday through Friday ran four same-day SPX 0DTE credit spreads (five separate spreads, since Thursday carried two), every one of them expiring worthless in the account's favor. No /ES activity: the 2-lot /ESZ6 strangle opened August 27 sat untouched all week.
Why did Thursday have two separate trades instead of one?
The first spread, sold mid-afternoon, was a full-size 2-lot position. A second, smaller 1-lot spread went on later the same session at different strikes, a normal part of how this account works a 0DTE day rather than a reaction to anything going wrong with the first one. Both expired worthless, combining for $219.68 on the day.
Is this account still on a win streak?
Yes, and it's grown past a real milestone covered earlier this week: a piece published mid-week noted this account had tied its own longest win streak at 14 trades, while making the point that a streak that length isn't actually rare at this account's win rate. This week's five more winners extend that streak to 19 trades without a loss, a new real high, and the same honest math from that piece still applies: a run like this says more about a favorable win rate over enough trades than about anything having changed.