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- Sold SPY puts for 38% gain, holding FAZ by The Option Premium Collector on Mar 20, 2009
I didn't want to hold the SPY Mar (10 days to expiry) 75 puts over the weekend so I took the gain. My FAZ April 30 calls that I bought for 6.00 ended with a bid/ask of 9.70/10.00. I'm letting this one run. I would have held the SPY's but time decay w...
- Long GLD and TBT calls by The Option Premium Collector on Mar 19, 2009
Gold is soaring as the Fed's action will weaken the dollar. I took the TBT bet because I don't believe the Fed will be able to keep yields that low and all they've done is reinflate the Treasuries bubble. We'll see.
- Fed buying treasuries by The Option Premium Collector on Mar 19, 2009
This is a game changer for the financials, TBT and gold. Stay tuned.
- Trade Ideas; GLD, SLV, GDX, TBT by The Option Premium Collector on Mar 5, 2009
It looks like the precious metals have corrected and are near a bottom. It might me a good time to write far out of the money puts on GLD, GDX and SLV. I say far out of the money because this market is very unpredictable and it gives us a nice margin...
- Sunday evening thoughts by The Option Premium Collector on Feb 15, 2009
How do we trade this crap that the greedy bankers got us into? That's not fair, it wasn't just them. A special shout out goes to Greenspan, the deregulators, Bernanke and Paulson as well. Anyway, how do we trade this market?Wait for gold to drop
- Trade Entered: TBT Ultra Short 20+ Year Treasuries by The Option Premium Collector on Feb 12, 2009
Today I sold TBT June 37 puts for 1.05 ($105) each. At the time of the trade TBT was trading at 45.90, the Dow was at 7825 and the S&P 500 was at 823. We have downside protection to $35.90. The maintenance requirement for this trade is $485 per c.
- Wednesday morning thoughts.. by The Option Premium Collector on Feb 11, 2009
I totally missed the crash yesterday taking care of family business. Not good timing. There were a smorgasbord of naked put selling setups. They're still not bad today but this is feeling like one of those crazy last hour of the day volatile closes.I
