February 2017 trading went well. I opened a few very profitable trades which allowed me to close some “skeletons in the closet” mainly WYNN trades.
That meant taking a loss but I am happy about it because that helped me to reduce exposure in that stock and still be profitable.
Again, I expected $1,605 dollars income in February.
I am happy to see that we were able to make $2,213.10 dollars of option income.
· Options Trading Strategy
Over time since I learned trading options I went from trading spreads, single naked puts, later added naked calls and landed on trading strangles. Many people are afraid trading strangles. They do not know how to protect themselves when having naked calls trades. I was afraid too until I found out that it is not as dangerous as others say.
I am not saying that there is no risk, but if you know how to handle the risk, you will be able to navigate through strangles with no fear.
Over time I developed my own rules and strategy. You can review it in this section.
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· Options Trading Results
As stated above our trading in January was really great and we made $2,213.10 dollars.
Below you can see all data and progress in our trading account:
Month-to-moth trading results
(The red dots on the chart indicate income estimate, blue bars actual earnings.)
In February 2017 we made: | 48 trades |
Total trades in 2017: | 94 trades |
February 2017 options trading income: | $2,213.10 (64.59%) |
2017 portfolio Net-Liq (net)*: | $4,020.72 (-12.22%) |
2017 portfolio Net-Liq (gross)*: | $24,520.72 (-2.90%) |
2017 portfolio Cash Value (net)*: | $23,432.72 (-5.21%) |
2017 portfolio Cash Value (gross)*: | $43,932.72 (-2.85%) |
2017 portfolio Equity (net)*: | $31,984.72 (-4.81%) |
2017 portfolio Equity (gross)*: | $52,484.72 (-2.99%) |
2017 Liability/Debt: | $20,500.00 (0.00%) |
2017 overall trading account result: | +23.40% |
* The numbers marked as “net” and “gross” are results with loan (liability) included (gross) or excluded (net).
We are presenting you our month-to-month business performance review:
Or February 2017 trading was successful and we made enough money to pay off the debt and grow our account.
· Options Trading March 2017 outlook
I am still optimistic as far as the entire market performance.
Recently, I have read a report originally provided by Gallup survey and published at Stansberry Research Report citing that currently HALF of Americans don’t own any stocks, at all and that global investors sit on $70 TRILLION dollars cash (source: Blackrock President, Rob Kapito, Reuters)
That is a lot of potential prop for the market.
Many investors and traders I follow became worried lately about the market. They say that the stock market has been rising for 8 years and they think it can’t run much higher.
They think it’s up over the last few months because of the “Trump Bump.” But this is not how bull markets end. Bull markets do not end when so much money is on the sidelines.
Bull markets end when everyone is invested… and there’s no one left to buy. And that’s precisely why they end… because with no one left to buy, prices have nowhere to go but down. (Stansberry Research Report)
When investors, currently sitting on a cash, start panic buying that would be the time to start being conservative and moving into cash. We are not yet there.
Nevertheless, our goal for March will be reducing exposure and increasing cash. I must admit that we are still over-invested and that means I am breaking the rules of trading small!
This can be seen on our open trades (Inventory) as we increased our inventory by $6,965.80 from January $34,444.90 to February $41,410.70. This had impact to our net-liq and overall performance since the trades (Amazon failed earnings play) are still on and they will end in six months. Until then they will impact our net-liq value.
However, we have a few trades which are about to end and they will help boosting our performance. Then we will stick strictly to our strategy as described above.
This is important for us as our account currently has a potential of trading for a living; if we could successfully reduce the exposure to our technically dead trades and could move the money to our current strategy.
Out of $44,000 dollar account (cash) we can trade only $15,000. The rest of the money is tied to bad trades we had to roll further away into long term expiration (bad trades in 2016 mostly against WYNN, LULU, and MNK which happened due to a mistake in our allowed trading calculations and I over-traded the account).
Our outlook for March income is however very conservative. I think, I will not be able to reach the goal income for March which is $1,717.35 dollars. I think we will be negative or around zero income in March. The reason is further unloading bad trades (WYNN) early in March and I do not plan on offsetting this loss. But we will see at the end of the month. There may be a good opportunity trade which I may take and offset all the loss.
Last thing I would like to add to this report is that I will posting our trades in this blog too. As of now, I was posting them in our Facebook group and to email subscribers only.
At the end I will then list a summary of those trades here in the report for your review. This will however happen in the March report.
What do you think about options trading?
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