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Calendar Options: Close Trade Alert — RTH June/July Double-Calendar
We’re entering an order to close our adjusted RTH calendar-spread position, as follows: Day limit order Sell to close 4 RTH July 95 puts Buy to close 4 RTH June 95 puts for a net credit of $1.75 or...
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Calendar Options: Close Trade Alert — RTH June/July Double-Calendar, Update
RTH rallied to $96.83 this morning before pulling back below $96.50. The rally has stalled for now, but there’s a good bit of support around $96. To facilitate closing this trade we’re lowering our...
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Calendar Options: Close Trade Alert—EEM June/Sept Double-Calendar
Our EEM June/Sept double-calendar position has hit our target profit of 15%, and we’re closing the position, as follows: Day limit order Sell to close 2 EEM Sept 150 calls Sell to close 2 EEM Sept 140...
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Calendar Options: How We Calculate Returns
It’s Monthly Review time, and we’ll be posting a review of our June Calendar Options trades shortly. But some readers have been having trouble making the returns posted in our Close Trade Alerts add...
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Calendar Options: June Monthly Review
The first month of Calendar Options trading was characterized by the high day-to-day price volatility typical of market transitions. As the late-March to mid-May bear-market rally came to an end, we...
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Calendar Options Adjustment Alert: EEM July/Sept Calendar Spread
With markets sharply down this morning, we want to extend the profit range of our EEM July/Sept calendar put spread to the down side by rolling half of our position at 140 to a put calendar spread at...
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Calendar Options: Adjustments, Part III — How We Adjust
We talk a lot about why adjusting iron condors is rarely, if ever, a good idea, and adjustment decidedly is not a part of the Condor Options strategy. So you’re probably wondering, why all these...
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Calendar Options: Monday Morning Update
Last week the market continued lower despite being deeply oversold, putting one of our Calendar Options positions in adjustment territory for the second time. It’s been a wild ride for EEM: After a...
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Calendar Options Monthly Review, Part I
We’re a bit behind on Calendar Options reviews, so we’re making this one a double-header— quite apropos, as it turns out, because the story is much the same for April and May: A strong market uptrend...
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Calendar Options Monthly Review
Our positions for the June cycle were like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In general, it was another difficult month, in terms of falling implied volatility and, in the case of our IBM trade, an uptrend...
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