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 roll the trade away and provide an offsetting call spread, but at some point in the future, we will have to start unwinding the calls and start adding puts to offset the bad trades. That will require a lot of capital. So, as of today, we are in a cash preservation mode and just rolling or adjusting the trades or letting them expire.

Last week,the SPX PCS strategy finished up by 9.63% while SPX was down -2.88%. Our overall SPX account is up +130.89% since the beginning of this program. However, we still have -$490 in unrealized losses. At some point we will have to work hard to offset those losses.
 

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

 

As I mentioned above, we were just managing our open trades by adding calls to the puts (converting the trades into Iron Condors) or rolling the trades around. Most of the time our effort was successful.

Here are our delayed open trades:
 

SPX PCS delayed trades
 

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Overall, the strategy resulted in a $730.00 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:	$7,581.95
Last week ending value:	$8,311.95 (+9.63%; total: +130.89%)
The highest capital requirements to trade this strategy:	$19,160
Unrealized Gain:	-$490 (-2.74%)
Realized Gain:	$5,067 (+28.28%)
Total Gain:	$4,577 (+25.55%)

 

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
 

I believe, the end of this messy market is near. We still may see more pain coming in the short term, but we are near the bottom. When the market reverses and the bulls return back, I can see this strategy to be even more profitable.

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