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My retirement account is up 20% in two weeks from SPY puts and GLD calls

SPY puts (and some others) have been good to me. I'm up about 1000% in my public positions over the past couple weeks.

I'm letting it ride until my thesis on how bad this gets pays through. It's my hedge against my world getting significantly affected by the virus.

I'd hate to have had puts expiring on that day the markets rallied a couple days ago. Volatility goes both ways.

Not only did that happen to me, but Robinhood's outage (1) prevented me from selling in the morning when I tried to, and (2) didn't trigger the auto-sell 1h before market close on un-exercisable options.

Cost me $25k or so on top of the rally. Fuck Robinhood for this.

That's the beauty of a real crash. It doesn't matter much when you go short.