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 offset those losses but that can be dangerous too. If the market suddenly reverses and rallies in a V-shaped recovery, all those calls will bite us. But we will fight. It is a part of the strategy.

Despite the horrible week, our SPX PCS strategy finished the week up +14.20% while SPX was down -1.58%. Our overall SPX account is up +113.39% since the beginning of this program.
 

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	New 7 DTE CCS trade opened credit: $345 Exp: Feb22
TUESDAY	Negative	New 30 DTE CCS trade opened credit: $240 Exp: Mar18
WEDNESDAY	Positive	New 7 DTE PCS trade opened credit: $225 Exp: Feb23
FRIDAY	Negative	No new trade
EVERY MONTH	—	No new trade

 

On Monday, our entry signal was negative and we opened a CCS (credit call spread) trade collecting $345 credit.
 

On Tuesday, our entry signal was negative and we opened a CCS trade collecting $240 credit.
 

On Wednesday, our entry signal turned positive. We opened a new PCS trade collecting $225 credit. Unfortunately, on Thursday it turned decisively negative again and a few of our put spreads got in the money. So we added two new CCS trades on Thursday to collect more credit and prepare for rolling the put spreads next week.
 

On Friday, the signal for the 60 DTE trade was negative and we remained out of the market.
 

We didn’t open any new 120 DTE debit hedging trade this week.
 

Here are our delayed open trades:
 

SPX PCS delayed trades
 

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Overall, the strategy resulted in a $955.00 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:	$6,727.00
Last week ending value:	$7,682.00 (+14.20%; total: +113.39%)
The highest capital requirements to trade this strategy:	$13,088
Unrealized Gain:	$912 (+6.97%)
Realized Gain:	$3,155 (+24.11%)
Total Gain:	$4,067 (+31.07%)

 

SPX PCS account value
 
Our SPX net-liq increased a bit last week. 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 to use the gains to roll the trades that are in the money.

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