Subject: A Little About Vertical Spreads
A Little About Vertical Spreads
October 24th, 2014 at 1:30 pm EDTDear Friend,Today we will discuss vertical spreads, and how you can use them when you have a strong feeling about which way a stock is headed. But first, a brief plug for my step-daughter’s new fitness invention called the Da Vinci BodyBoard – it ...
October 18, 2014 Saturday Report
October 18th, 2014 at 1:51 pm EDTOctober 18, 2014 Saturday Report Dear Friend, It was another bad week for the market as well as SVXY, but Friday's price action might indicate that the worst is over. Enjoy the full report. Terry Copyright 2001-2014 Terry's Ti ...
Ongoing Spread SVXY Strategy – Week 10: Knowing When to Bite the Bullet
October 17th, 2014 at 3:15 pm EDTDear Friend,Sometimes, the market does just the opposite of what you hoped it would, and you are faced with the decision to hang on and hope it will reverse itself, or accept that you guessed wrong, and close out your position and move on to somethin ...
October 11, 2014 Saturday Report
October 11th, 2014 at 1:54 pm EDTOctober 11, 2014 Saturday Report Dear Friend, It was one awful week for the market, and even a worse one for SVXY. However, it might have ushered in one of the great buying opportunities we will see all year. Enjoy the full report. Terry ...
Ongoing Spread SVXY Strategy – Week 9: Handling an Adverse Price Change
October 10th, 2014 at 3:57 pm EDTDear Friend,Our SVXY demonstration hit a real snag this week, as the volatility index (VIX) soared to over 20 and SVXY got hammered, falling from the mid-$80’s level when we started the portfolio to about $65 while we were betting that it would mov ...
October 4, 2014 Saturday Report
October 4th, 2014 at 12:58 pm EDTOctober 4, 2014 Saturday Report Dear Friend, A crazy week in the market saw all three of our individual-stock portfolios make nice gains which averaged about 5 times the gains of the underlying stocks. We also had an opportunity to pick up SV ...
Ongoing Spread SVXY Strategy – Week 8: How to Avoid an Option Assignment
October 2nd, 2014 at 3:38 pm EDTDear Friend,This message is coming out a day early because the underlying stock we have been trading options on has fallen quite a bit once again, and the put we sold to someone else is in danger of being exercised, so we will trade a day earlier tha ...
September 27, 2014 Saturday Report
September 27th, 2014 at 12:59 pm EDTSeptember 27, 2014 Saturday Report Dear Friend, The big news this week is the elimination of the Pea Plays portfolio (and our acknowledgement, at last, that it is nearly impossible to do well selling weekly options), and the creation of a new ...
September 20, 2014 Saturday Report
September 20th, 2014 at 7:05 am EDTSeptember 20, 2014 Saturday Report Dear Friend, It was a fairly good week for all the portfolios not dependent on SVXY (where volatility was excessive). Our crash-protection spread did poorly, as could be expected when the market moves higher ...
Ongoing Spread SVXY Strategy – Week 6
September 19th, 2014 at 11:37 am EDTDear Friend,Today we will continue our discussion of both SVXY and the actual portfolio we are carrying out with only two positions. Every Friday, we will make a trade in this portfolio and tell you about it here. Our goal is to earn an average gain ...