dest's discord group--tickers, structuring and pnl

Novice here trying to follow your coat tails. Im deep into the books you recommend but can you please explain what the exact trades you put on for this combo were?

 

I think he means to short the straddle. Short put and call both 2940 strike. Just a guess, because what's the point of shorting ATM put and buying ATM call, if he can long the futures instead. Sorry for not being that helpful

 

Short ES from 02.5. Long penny call against it in SPX to reduce haircut.

 

Out 14.45 (+2.55) as my gamma is getting chonky here. Up 4.2% on account.

 

Sorry, normally "shorting the combo" would mean to short the call, long the put, at the 2940 strike. I would not do that over simply shorting futures. So in this case it's the short straddle.

 

Covered at 0.50 (mkt is 0.55 mid x100) for a gain of 50/per. I would have held it through May29 exp, but I am an AAPL bear here and the weekend stress is only good to 315.

 

Trade2: gain of 0.5 (10% on req)
Trade4: Gain o4 2.45 (21% on req)

Only the FB and (new) ES short from 02.5 remain.

Up 5.1% on account.

 

*ES call. SPX did not x-margin.

 

TRADE8: Long the AAPL JUN5 290-340 121 fly for $13.95 risk. Done via the synthetic. This was done in size; 10-lot per $100K in net liq.

 

Awesome close to the day. Short ES, short AAPL deltas, in size.