A newbie's index option journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by JLB123, Feb 17, 2007.


  1. JW,

    Nice call!
    I admire your gutsiness buying front month options one week before expiration.


    Jeff
     
    #61     May 11, 2007
  2. JLB123

    JLB123

    2007-05-14 JW Trading Activity :
    Add to long position with SFBFQ - SPY June 147 call @5.5.

    Open position : 2
     
    #62     May 14, 2007
  3. JLB123

    JLB123

    2007-05-14 JW Trading Activity (2) :

    Add to long position with SFBFQ - SPY June 147 call @5.2.

    Open position : 3
     
    #63     May 14, 2007
  4. JLB123

    JLB123

    2007-05-15 JW Trading Activity :
    Add to long position with SFBFQ - SPY June 147 call @5.1.

    Open position : 4
     
    #64     May 15, 2007
  5. JLB123

    JLB123

    2007-05-16 JW Trading Activity :

    It was a little painful adding all these positions over the past few days. As SFBER's expiration approaches, I'm happy to close it at a good price. However, model indicated to open another position today so I sort of rolled the position into June 148 Call. Hope they will work out in the next few days.

    Closed position: SFBER - SPY May 148 Call @ 3.60, +60%
    2007-05 month to date return : 4.63%
    2007 year to date return : 21.61%
    vs. 2007 year to date SPY (S&P500) return : 7.05%
    Trailing 12 Month Model Beta (SPY = 1 ) : -0.18
    Trailing 12 Month Model Alpha (Annualized) : 53.14%

    Initiated long position with SFBFR - SPY June 148 CALL @ 5.10.

    Open position: 4
     
    #65     May 16, 2007
  6. JLB123

    JLB123

    2007-05-17 JW Trading Activity :

    Closed another position and took some money off the table. OptionXpress uses 'last in, first out' method for calculating PnL. So I will do the same to keep the record consistant.

    Closed position: SFBFQ - SPY June 147 Call @ 5.50, +7.84%
    2007-05 month to date return : 5.69%
    2007 year to date model return : 22.96%
    vs. 2007 year to date SPY (S&P500) return : 6.84%
    Trailing 12 Month Model Beta (SPY = 1 ) : -0.19
    Trailing 12 Month Model Alpha (Annualized) : 59.81%

    Open position: 3
     
    #66     May 17, 2007
  7. JLB123

    JLB123

    2007-05-18 JW Trading Activity :

    Sold everything and back to 100% cash. Trading result so far is pretty consistant with the model baseline. Rather than close the positions myself, I placed the sell orders as "Sell At Market Close" because I had to attend a meeting. But it turned out that SFBFQ had a higher ending bid/ask price than my selling price. So I guess somebody took a spread on me? Oh well, other than that, it has been a good week.

    Closed position: SFBFQ - SPY June 147 Call @ 6.40, +23.1%
    Closed position: SFBFQ - SPY June 147 Call @ 6.40, +16.4%
    Closed position: SFBFR - SPY June 148 Call @ 5.60, +9.8%

    2007-05 month to date return : 13.12%
    2007 year to date return : 32.38%
    vs. 2007 year to date SPY (S&P500) return : 7.77%
    Trailing 12 Month Model Beta (SPY = 1 ) : -0.18
    Trailing 12 Month Model Alpha (Annualized) : 68.52%

    Open position: 0
     
    #67     May 18, 2007
  8. JW,

    "Good job!"



    Jeff
     
    #68     May 21, 2007
  9. do you trade emini index futures?
     
    #69     May 21, 2007
  10. JLB123

    JLB123

    Thanks Jeff.
     
    #70     May 21, 2007