Our SPX PCS strategy finished up by 24.27% while SPX lost -2.75%. Last week was a horrible week. The market lost over 5% in two days based on fear of the FED raising rates “too aggressively”. But our account was up significantly. But there is nothing much to celebrate. All I was doing was adjusting Continue reading →

My last week’s SPX trading was slow. I was traveling and mostly managing the trades only. I opened only a few new trades but watched old trades expire or closed for target profit. Last week,the SPX PCS strategy finished up by +2.41% while SPX was up +1.79%. Our overall SPX account is up +95.05% since Continue reading →

The stock market staged a three days rally when SPX reached 200-day MA at $4,468 level. Is this a reversal or just a violent relief bounce rally before we reverse down again? I think, what we are seeing is a reversal. The FED finally raised the interest rates (and if you are subscribed to my Continue reading →

Despite horrible market performance last week, our SPX trading did well. Although I wouldn’t trumpet a victory here yet as we have plenty of underwater trades that we are managing (pretty much just pushing them away until the market improves), these trades can give us a hard time and increase losses. For now, we just Continue reading →

Despite the market volatility our SPX PCS and CCS strategy performed well. We were building cash income to offset the rolling of our put trades and that worked well so far. A few of our trades expired for a profit, some trades were losing ones but we generated enough income to cover those losses. Last Continue reading →

Last week was difficult to trade SPX spreads. As the market was dropping and speeding up in declining, I started reversing and adding credit call spreads to neutralize the put spreads and collect premiums to offset the cost of rolling the puts. But the market reversed sharply and rallied hard on Thursday and Friday and Continue reading →

Another difficult week is behind us, yet our SPX trading showed nice profits and growth. But it is not as rosy as it may seem from today’s report. We have a few put spreads in the money we will be rolling and these rolls will generate losses. Yes, we are selling credit call spreads to Continue reading →