05.12.2011
Stocks – Recent Trade Results (Rough Cut)
original report written by Net Advisor™
Was going to tweet this as a follow up on recent posted tweets, but this is slightly more than the 140 characters available on Twitter, so decided to make a post here and link this to Twitter.
Citigroup
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Exited all Citigroup (C) positions. Post reverse split seems too risky for now – for my taste.
- Results: Long stock = -15.58% (ouch);
- Outright short position Citi position yesterday (100% $ for $ hedge); Net +3.65%;
- Long Citi June 40 Put option net +120% (yes, this one more than doubled…overnight – sweet).
- Also closed Citi Dec $4.00 covered call option +25.97%.
- Overall net result w/ off-setting hedges only -5.71% (net loss).
Hedging can work. Hedges took a stock loss of -15.58% and reduced that loss to only -5.71% Thus hedges reduced loss by +9.87% net benefit (All trades net of commission costs).
Best part. Free up lots of cash, and less stress. Re-evaluate.
Note: This was not easy. These are more sophisticated trading, using multiple option strategies, using 3 independent live software programs and required full-time attention. Trades don’t always work out even with decent technology, so wanted to note this.
Concern:
https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/68348581261754369
Investor newbie’s: Quick edu on options:
Long = thinking it will go up, profit if goes up.
Short = thinking it will go down, profit if goes down.
Long PUT = thinking it will go down, profit if goes down.
Covered Call = you’re long a stock, and sell the right to give up the stock at a certain price you decide in advance by a certain date. In exchange, you get cash now, more than the stock is currently worth. Risk limits upside. Benefit: protects against short-term down movements against the long stock (a hedge).
S&P 500 Index (SPY)
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Yesterday opened S&P 500 (SPY) June 130 PUT – closed earlier today +13.21%.
Microsoft (MSFT)
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Held recent Microsoft trade since 4-29-2011.
Bought MSFT May 25 Puts 4-29-2011 and added to position ($ cost averaging) yesterday. Exited position today for +2.00% gain.
Get 100% cash back plus little more on an option that expires next Friday. MSFT stock could go lower which was the goal of this trade, but the market was recovering from earlier losses and NASDAQ moved to positive from earlier losses. Take cash and re-evaluate. It was 100 contracts, basically controlling $250,000 worth of MSFT stock (10,000 shares at $25). Risk off trade. Stock may go lower and could have been big gain next week, but decided to take risk off this trade with 2% gain in 13 trading days.
iShares Silver ETF (SLV)
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- Had multiple Silver short positions via SLV in last couple weeks with 70-100%+ gains.
- 4-29-2011 called near term #Silver top and went short same day. Discussed here: https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/64049276145238016
- 05-02-2011 closed 4-29-2011 silver trade +79%. Closed bit early, it went up about 1,978% (total) few days later but, hey it’s still 79% gain in 1 overnight trading day. Discussed here: https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/65051579149062144 and here: https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/66235527959027712
- 05-05-2011 Noted my typo in the word in Silver short “position” – wrote “potion” – hey it’s magic. 😛 https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/66240323650723840
- 05-05-2011 new silver short https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/66159442936340480
- 05-05-2011 closed new silver short w/ 100%+ gain in 4 hrs. Basically I was betting on people panic selling and they did. Calculated: +107% net gain on this one. https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/66224840809521152
- 05-05-2011 to 05-05-2011 Silver #SLV May 30 Puts (small trade) $274 loss (overnight). Short covering as Silver was rebounding. Off set with other positive trades. Too much to write. https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/66509839190331392
- 05-12-2011 Exited #Silver (#SLV) earlier today. Held July 30 Put option – Net +91.35%. Discussed getting into this trade Tue 05-10-2011 (2 days ago). https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/67972813683822592 and https://twitter.com/NetAdvisor/status/67973278626623488
Usually don’t go into too much discussion on trades. But got into tweeting them for awhile. Not doing this all the time, but thought would share a bit.
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