Pops To The Crops...

Corn brought home the bacon for me today, but I'll still waiting for WEAT to turn up the heat...

I temporarily repatriated about 30% of my unrealised Japanese bank call losses by getting into some SPY vertical put spreads ($166 / $165 puts) at a credit of $0.35 per share - meaning I'm a buyer at $165.65 and a seller at $165.35.  Before getting into the trade, I contemplated getting into SPY out of the money vertical call spreads, but decided that since the SPY sellers were so powerful, I'd go with them.  

I'm still faced with growing % cash in a declining account on my Roth IRA and I need to turn this ship around and end up with growing % cash in a growing account.  

How do I get there in the quickest possible way at minimal risk?  

It's taking tremendous willpower to ignore all of the red in my portfolio right now...


-2.67% SBA
-1.13% Roth IRA

+0.70% DJIA
+0.86% Nasdaq
+0.63% S&P 

+1.62% FTSE
+1.31% Eurofirst
+1.20% Nikkei
+1.23% Shanghai
+0.65% SENSEX
+1.05% Hang Seng

+1.02% WTI
+1.82% Brent
-0.40% Gold
+0.50% Copper
+1.52% Corn

+1.25% USD/JPY
+0.79% EUR/JPY

+0.03% DJT
+2.86% VIX

+6.17% 10-Year US Treasury Notes... Whoa... is the 10-Year US Treasury Note the new VIX??