Originally Posted by Gunfighter

After today's close, I'm up $2,500 overall, which is a swing of $5,000 from last week. That seems like a pretty wild swing for less than a week of activity in a 100K account. I thought I was playing fairly conservative with a few short SPY/SPX IC trades at 30/16 Delta with VIX >24 and 15/10 Delta trades when VIX was lower.

Is a 5% weekly swing normal for you option traders? Should I be trying something else to smooth out the swings?