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$SMH Update

8/27/2018

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With $SMH, I am officially making a slight expansive adjustment. I am going to be buying back half of the bullish verticals for $112.50. It is a profit on those legs, but allows for more downside. This was part of the newsletter plan.
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$RSX Trade Update

8/24/2018

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After being exercised in some of my $RSX September Puts, I decided to do a little bit of a different trade. Buy back your 21Sep puts in RSX, then sell 100 19Oct $20 strike, and buy 50 19Oct $18 strike puts.  

If you put this one on, you may need some help to prevent any kind of margin errors. Please direct message me on Twitter. This is due to a thesis change.
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$GS Trade Update

8/24/2018

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$GS trade, meant to capture a large 3rd wave up in November, is showing the chances of weakening. Sell half of the position at $.56 credit for a 19% gain. This is strictly a technical play; reload when $GS reaches $229.
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Closing $GD Trade

8/14/2018

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Newsletter alert: Sold $GD fly at $4.27. This was bought at 3.75, a 13.9% gain. 

With such high gamma (since we are close to expiration), I will sell it sometime today (August 14, 2018) instead of rolling the dice between a massive gain or massive loss tomorrow. 

Could have made more after earnings, but I won't complain about a profit. Thanks, Zac Mannes!
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Closing $SMH Trade

8/11/2018

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As my vacation wound down, I was greeted with a couple of concerning news items.

  1. The first news item was the Turkey news, which has been brewing for weeks and all technical traders saw a dip in SPX coming, so the newsletter wasn't overly exposed to it. 
  2. The other piece of news was the announcement of several tariffs levied upon the US by China.

One of the tariffs levied upon the US was on semiconductors, which had a direct effect on our SMH trade.

​As a reminder, the SMH trade was a 102/107/112 put butterfly expiring this week. Thursday close was at 108.14, so there was some room to drop. However, the news caused a gap down to 106.44, causing the IV to spike, liquidity to drop, and our returns to start feeling some heat. I always tell option traders to wait for the market makers to catch up to any gaps before trading, usually at around 10-10:30am unless it is an emergency.

Because we weren't very far from our short strike, I didn't consider it an emergency. In fact, the trade was a little green on the day. However, because of the news I was expecting volatility to pick up a little bit, which hurts a vega negative position such as a butterfly. Since the news was negative and SMH price was below the short strike (we were delta positive after the gap), I felt the return had a greater chance of shrinking than growing. Finally, since expiration is 1 week away, gamma is relatively a high negative number which would eat into profits further if more downside were to be seen. 

You can see this in the chart below. The purple is the P&L now, the blue is the P&L at expiration. If we saw a continuation down on Monday, you can see how much profit it would take with it on our position, and how little we had to gain if it spiked up. The position would depend on a bounce, which I wasn't confident in, especially considering EcoQuant's chart signaled more downside. 
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​So even though we did not meet our expected profit of $750, we were within $1.50 of our short strikes, and EcoQuant identified the chance of a small pop before further downside, I decided to close the trade.

​This is how you trade by the greeks with a technical thesis. 
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