Subject: December 18, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio
December 18, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio
December 18th, 2013 at 9:35 am EDTDecember 18, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio The level of tapering has been announced so we should get back in: Buy 90 shares of XIV at the market. ($32.84) Happy trading. Terry To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please visit http://ww ...
December 3, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio
December 3rd, 2013 at 6:49 am EDTDecember 3, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio VIX has moved up to almost 15 and there is talk of tapering concerns. This might be a good time to sit on the sidelines with our XIV investment even though contango still exists: STC 100 shares of XIV ...
December 3, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio
December 3rd, 2013 at 6:48 am EDTDecember 3, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio VIX has moved up to almost 15 and there is talk of tapering concerns. This might be a good time to sit on the sidelines with our XIV investment even though contango still exists: STC 100 shares of XIV ...
October 30, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio
October 30th, 2013 at 7:58 am EDTOctober 30, 2013 Trade Alert - Contango Portfolio These are the initial positions in this new portfolio. We are buying 100 shares of XIV in hopes that options will become available sometime down the line: Buy 100 shares of XIV at the market. Buy 60 s ...
October 22, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio
October 22nd, 2013 at 10:05 am EDTOctober 22, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio Due to a general lack of interest and the small remaining amount, we will discontinue this portfolio. While it operated, it performed its task of providing protection against a declining market. Unfor ...
October 18, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio
October 18th, 2013 at 11:40 am EDTOctober 18, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio After patiently waiting for some sell on the news activity to bring down the price of SPY only to see that it never happened, we need to get set up for next month: BTC 2 SPY Oct-13 168 puts (SPY131019 ...
September 30, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio
September 30th, 2013 at 6:08 am EDTSeptember 30, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio We need to get shorter: BTC 1 SPY Oct-13 173 call (SPY131019C173)STC 1 SPY Nov-13 173 call (SPY131116C173) for a credit of $.80 (selling a calendar) BTC 1 SPY Oct-13 170 put (SPY131019P170)STC 1 SP ...
September 23, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio
September 23rd, 2013 at 7:51 am EDTSeptember 23, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio We need to get shorter: BTC 1 SPY Oct-13 175 call (SPY131019C175)STC 1 SPY Nov-13 175 call (SPY131116C175) for a credit of $.78 (selling a calendar) BTC 1 SPY Oct-13 171 put (SPY131019P171)STO 1 SP ...
September 20, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio
September 20th, 2013 at 8:35 am EDTSeptember 20, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio These trades will get us set up for next month: BTC 1 SPY Sep-13 170 put (SPY130921P170) for $.02 (no commission) STO 1 SPY Oct-13 170 put (SPY131019P170) for $1.73 BTO 1 SPY Nov-13 168 put (SPY13 ...
September 19, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio
September 19th, 2013 at 6:32 am EDTSeptember 19, 2013 Trade Alert - Big Bear Portfolio We need to get out of this in-the-money short call and start getting set up for next month: BTC 1 SPY Sep-13 172 call (SPY130921C172)STC 1 SPY Oct-13 171 call (SPY131019C171) for a credit of $1.97 ( ...