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Trade97 Week Ending 14 September
That Was The Week A bit of a nothing but it didn’t feel like it as the FTSE dropped beneath the waves with a low of 7220. I have several positions running into this expiry,and confess to failing to take the 45DTE (Oct expiry trade) That came into view on 7th Sept. Of course this […]
Trade 95 Week Ending 31 August
Some Graphics To Pore Over, and a Great Exit for Trade 94 As we ALL know- don’t we, volatility rises when the market falls. It can rise when the market rises but it is a measure of the cost of risk. For premium sellers it is a thing of beauty, for those already short premium, […]
Trade 94 Week Ending 24 August
The Week That Time forgot Actually the whole of August has been pretty lame, for FTSE, though August 15th served us well with a 1.5% drop. August is the month when movers and shakers are away. The office cat is actually managing your funds! I like the ‘up day/down day‘ measure and August has 50% […]
Trade 93 Week Ending 17August
What a Spikey Week! Big old vol spike on Wednesday. 5 consecutive down days (long overdue). And…. a terrific opportunity to double down with whatever position you like! I think this is more like it, though we may be heading back to that magnetic 7650 level. What do I know about levels? We’ll get to […]
Trade 76 When The Market’s A Bit Too Happy
When Vol is Neither Big nor small We sometimes like to go directional, but an outright purchase of options is not …a great option. We could buy a put, a put spread,a call or a call spread. This would be safer than a combination (risk reversal for US traders). A combo is the buying of […]
That Was The Week Ending 06April
Some Housekeeping First: Trade 73 Another Victory For the record- Trade72 would still be underwater if we’d run as a straight strangle but next week might see some big downside. So our short 7150 calls will likely be a bit less juicy,and in our favour. Last week we ran through some adjustments,and we don’t have […]
Trade73 Cheap and Cheerful
Trade 72- What’s the Story? Remember? Strangle at 7150 and 6300, credit of 39.5. Now the whole thing has gone a bit lopsided, what are the options (doh) for adjusting? The puts are now over 10% OTM so no worry there, the calls are close to the money at 100 points above so here’s how […]
