Weekly Portfolio Update
A week of range-bound trading is beginning to build up a profit in both our core newsletter portfolio and our KO Supplemental Trade: SPY September/October Double-Diagonal ( 97/102/109/114): A few...
View ArticleSupplemental Trade Alert: Open KO September/October Calendar Spread
KO appears to have found support above $57.25, so we’re adding the following position to our September Supplemental Trades portfolio: Day limit order Buy to open 4 KO Oct 57.5 puts Sell to open 4 KO...
View ArticleSupplemental Trade Alert: Open KO September/October Double-Calendar #2
We’re adding the following Supplemental Trades position to our September KO portfolio: Day limit order Buy to open 2 KO Oct 60 calls Sell to open 2 KO Sep 60 calls Buy to open 2 KO Oct 57.5 puts Sell...
View ArticleSupplemental Trade Watch Update
As of 2:35pm edt, the premium in the KO Sep 57.5 calls was about $0.25—still well below the $0.44 second-quarter dividend. It’s a little early for a dividend arbitrage play, but we want to make sure we...
View ArticleSupplemental Trade Alert: Adjust KO September/October Double-Calendar #1
There’s been no change in the KO September 57.5 call premium, so we’re selling the call calendar and replacing it with the 57.5 put calendar, as follows: Day limit order Buy to close 2 KO Sep 57.5...
View ArticleSupplemental Trade Alert: Close KO September/October Double-Calendar #1...
We’re reducing the negative delta bias of our KO portfolio, as a percentage of total capital at risk, from about 15% to approximately 8.5% with the following closing trade: Day limit order Buy to close...
View ArticleWeekly Portfolio Update
Yesterday afternoon we began closing September positions, on the defensive against a steep rally that appears bent on testing the full range of the SPX 1105–1130 resistance zone. We may have to take...
View ArticleSupplemental Trade Alert: Close KO September/October Calendar Spread
We’re closing our KO Sep/Oct 57.5 put calendar for a 26.4% return on capital risked, with the following order: Day limit order Buy to close 4 KO Sep 57.5 puts Sell to close 4 KO Oct 57.5 puts for a net...
View ArticleSupplemental Trade Alert: Close KO September/October Double-Calendar #2
Now that we’ve been filled on the 57.5 single-calendar we’re closing the remaining double-calendar for a 19.7% return on capital risked: Day limit order Buy to close 2 KO Sep 60 calls Sell to close 2...
View ArticleNew Option for Supplemental Trades
Our September KO Supplemental Trades went very well, with an average return per trade of 8.99% on total capital risked and a Model Portfolio return of 6.08%. Even so, a few members wrote in to say that...
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