Subject: October 11, 2014 Saturday Report
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 ...
September 13, 2014 Saturday Report
September 13th, 2014 at 6:26 am EDTSeptember 13, 2014 Saturday Report Dear Friend, It was a bad week for the market and especially SVXY but most of our portfolios held up fairly well. There will be a new definition of VIX starting in a few weeks that should be interesting, and ...
Ongoing Spread SVXY Strategy – Week 5
September 12th, 2014 at 10:12 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 ...
September 6, 2014 Saturday Report
September 6th, 2014 at 1:45 pm EDTSeptember 6, 2014 Saturday Report Dear Friend, This week we discuss some ways to create a hedge against a possible market meltdown in the historically vulnerable months of September and October. Most of our portfolios enjoyed a fine week as w ...