Last week’s market was horrible. The new rally was rejected and the markets lost yet our SPX strategy gained. The gain is however in danger if this market continues freaking out about already known things (nothing that sent the market down was unknown). If the market continues lower, we will be adding call spreads and roll our put spreads or let them expire in the money for a loss (while our call spreads help offset the loss).

Despite the horrible week, our SPX PCS strategy finished the week up +11.99% while SPX was down -1.82%. Our overall SPX account is up +86.86% 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	Positive	New 7 DTE trade opened credit: $145 Exp: Feb14
TUESDAY	Positive	New 30 DTE trade opened credit: $275 Exp: Mar11
WEDNESDAY	Positive	New 7 DTE Call credit spread trade opened credit: $310 Exp: Feb16
FRIDAY	Negative	No new trade
EVERY MONTH	—	No new trade

 

On Monday, our entry signal was positive and we opened a new trade collecting $145 credit. The market was showing some weakness so we reduced our risk lowering our delta. As of today, the trade is still safe but if the market continues going down, we will need to adjust this trade.
 

On Tuesday, our entry signal was positive and we opened a new trade. I was still cautious lowered the delta. We collected a $275 credit for this trade. The trade is currently in the money but time is on our side so we will wait.
 

On Wednesday, our entry signal was positive, and we opened a new put credit spread. Unfortunately, when the stock dropped on Thursday (again) on the comments of the St. Louis James Bullard that he was open for more rate hikes and other nonsense. The market collapsed. Now, the trade is in the money. We added a call spread to hedge this trade and collected additional $350 credit. We will wait for the market to recover and if not, we will roll the trade away (it will be a debit trade though).
 

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 $720.00 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:	$6,007.00
Last week ending value:	$6,727.00 (+11.99%; total: +66.86%)
The highest capital requirements to trade this strategy:	$11,998
Unrealized Gain:	$947 (+8.57%)
Realized Gain:	$2,180 (+19.72%)
Total Gain:	$3,127 (+28.29%)

 

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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