January 2022 is over and our SPX strategy once again outperformed the market. The market was horrible last week, full of volatile zig-zag moving and losses. However, it seems that the market found support at the $4,315 level. If it holds we may see the market moving up and that would prop our SPX strategy even more. If the markets start trending higher, we will be taking every trade and riding the market up.

Our SPX strategy is designed to stay away from the market if it is not trending and the signals are negative. During January’s selling, we stayed out for the most part of the trading days waiting for our opportunity to jump in. That opportunity may be approaching.

Our SPX PCS strategy finished the week up +3.65% while SPX was losing. However, by the end of the week, SPX had a strong rally on Friday and finished up by +0.77%. Our account is up 51.58% since the beginning of this program. If the selling continues, I might start seeing some troubles as our Friday’s 50 DTE trades may get in the money. If the selling ended last week, we may see our account spiking even more as we will be able to take our 7 DTE trades which we stayed out when the SPX fell.
 

Initial trade set ups

 

For my SPX strategy, I dedicated a $3,600 initial amount that will be used to trade SPX PCS strategy per week. If this amount is depleted, I will evaluate the strategy to determine whether to continue or change it. If I grow this amount, I will scale up the trading.
 

WHAT WILL WE TRADE?
DAY	DTE	TYPE
MONDAY	7 DTE	Put Credit Spread
TUESDAY	30 DTE	Put Credit Spread
WEDNESDAY	7 DTE	Put Credit Spread
FRIDAY	60 DTE	Put Credit Spread
EVERY MONTH	120 DTE	Put Debit Spread – HEDGE

 

Last week trading

 

DAY	SIGNAL TYPE	TRADE STATUS
MONDAY	Negative	No new trade
TUESDAY	Negative	No new trade
WEDNESDAY	Negative	New 7 DTE Call credit spread trade opened credit: $200 Exp: Feb2
FRIDAY	Positive	New 60 DTE trade opened credit: $100 Exp: Mar31
EVERY MONTH	—	No new trade opened

 

On Monday, our entry signal was negative and we stayed away from the market.

On Tuesday, our entry signal was negative and we stayed away from the market.

On Wednesday, our entry signal was negative however, we opened a credit call spread.

On Friday, the signal for the 60 DTE trade was positive and we opened a new 60 DTE credit spread.

We didn’t open any new 120 DTE debit hedging trade this week. Since the market outlook is very negative and we are in backwardation, I might be opening a new additional hedge trade on Monday.
 

Here are our delayed open trades:
 

SPX PCS delayed trades
 

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Overall, the strategy resulted in a $192.00 gain last week. Note that the gain might be unrealized as some or all trades may be still open.
 

Initial account value (since inception: 12/07/2021):	$3,600.00
Last week beginning value:	$5,265.00
Last week ending value:	$5,457.00 (+51.58%)
The highest capital requirements to trade this strategy:	$9,348
Unrealized Gain:	$652 (+6.97%)
Realized Gain:	$1,205 (+12.89%)
Total Gain:	$1,857 (+19.87%)

 

SPX PCS account value
 
Our SPX net-liq increased a bit last week but I consider it a good result since the market is volatile and non-trending, well, it is trending but the trend is choppy and weak.
 

SPX PCS account vs SPX index net liq
 
However, comparing the account with SPX net-liq, we are still outperforming this horrible market.
 

SPX PCS account vs SPX index
 

If the market continues being this choppy or even going down as fast as it has so far, I expect slower or no growth, because I will be out of the market.

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