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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 […]
Naked -Not So Much Fun- Trade 72 Special
This Was The Trade: SELL the 7150 call @19.5 (230 OTM) and SELL the 6300 put @20 (620 points OTM). Credit 39.5. Risk at 7190 and 6260 FTSE was 6920 on March 23rd- now it is 7264. OUCH! FTSE has risen 5% since 23rd March. Why? Too much money chasing a home? Or this: […]
That Was The Week ending 30March
FTSE Madness A curious week with Thursday’s action seeing the ‘F’ drop 50 points at the end of the day. Cold feet ahead of the long break? Overall up just under 2% and volatility doing a few twists and turns. Again this does not seem reflected in options prices that we look at. The index […]
