GLD – 10/06/1016 GLD had been gaping down and I decided to take a chance that it had bottomed out. Somewhat risky trade, but it worked out. I ended up with a pretty good return although trading a stock based on the fact you think it has bottomed out is not always the best idea. […]
Category: ActualTrades
SPX – 9/9/16 Look Back trade
SPX – 09/09/2016 This was a bull put spread I entered after the market spiked down. The increased volatility gave me good premium so I took the trade. I was going to try and turn this into an iron condor by adding the calls but I never saw a good enough opportunity. I had such […]
SKX 9/8/16 Look Back Trade
SKX – 09/08/2016 This was a bear call spread that I actually sold to help improve a covered call position I had in SKX. SKX was not performing well in my covered call portfolio so I decided to place a hedge trade. If SKX stayed the same or went down then I would make money […]
LULU 9/8/16 – Look Back Trade
LULU – 09/08/2016 This was a credit put spread I placed based on both technicals and the fact that LULU has shown strength over this some time period in past years. I really felt this was a pretty good quality set up when I took it. I made one big error by not really having […]
SPX Credit Spread Look Back Trade
SPX – 07/08/2016 This trade was a credit spread scalp all attempted on 7/8 based on a momentum strategy. I thought the market would begin a move down that day and saw the opportunity for a quick profit. SPX did not cooperate and I ended up placing a hedge trade to protect my spread. With […]
QQQ Time Decay Spread Look Back Trade
QQQ – 07/07/2016 I decided to attempt more of a scalp strategy with one of my standard time decay strategies. I have really not had much luck with scalping the market using these strategies as this trade will continue to show. On 7/7 with QQQ trading at $108.39 I purchased the July week 3 $112 […]
TSLA Credit Spread Look Back Trade
TSLA – 07/07/2016 Another one of the momentum based trades that I placed with 24 hours until expiration. This one looked like a really strong candidate and I was able to sell Puts a pretty good distance from the current price of $216.75 because of high volatility. Of course, with TSLA you never know what […]
TLT Time Decay Spread Look Back Trade
TLT – 7/7/2016 This is another of the 24 hour momentum trades. On 7/7 TLT was trading at $142.02 and I decided to place the trade based off of the hourly chart instead of using the daily like I would normally do. I thought it would be alright because I had resistance at the 7 […]
SPX – What a Day
This certainly was not the worst day I have traded in the SPX, but it is one that took me by surprise. I was trading happily along around lunch time then …. BOOM! SPX just started to drop. I said, “OK”, there is plenty of room between the current price and some of my shorts. […]
GOOG Time Decay Spread Look Back Trade
GOOG – 07/01/2016 GOOG was trading at $699.98 and I felt it was reaching the top of its range. I decided to place a variation of a Bear Call spread to take advantage of that as well as time decay. On 7/1 I sold the $735 Call for $0.15 and Bought the $745 Call for […]
