I left my spread position on corn for two weeks and just observed the movement in prices. I can say that almost every time when price increased or decreased, my gain was smaller than my loss. So I didn’t have the chance to offset my positions and to add something to my “realized gains”. I kept watching the movements (increase and decrease) in price of corn, but the gain was never important. After two weeks, my equity balance increased with only $113 from $45821.28 to $45934.38.
The spread position was helpful in the past two weeks, but also kept me from important gains. So if I want to gain more, I need to risk more. This is impossible by keeping the spread, so I have to decide to offset one of my contracts and eventually go with more contracts that I will consider appropriate to my price prediction for the next week.
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