SPX Credit Spread Trader

Discussion in 'Journals' started by El OchoCinco, May 17, 2005.

  1. Coach
    what is your opinion on today's fed meeting and interest rate?
     
    #11401     Oct 25, 2006
  2. tplast
    Can you please explain this with numbers(Greeks), if you have a minute?.
     
    #11402     Oct 25, 2006
  3. As everyone expects, FED will do nothing and issue some tame language going forward.

    Expect a downward knee-jerk reaction just because bears are restless and then a push back higher in the 3:30PM to 4:00 closing stretch. Of course I would not bet on this happening but I am feeling like it will be not much of an event really.

     
    #11403     Oct 25, 2006
  4. tplast

    tplast

    Sure. My position is:

    -30 ES NOV 1350 puts
    +30 ES DEC 1350 puts
    +3 ES DEC futures

    Delta is +70
    Gamma is -2.36
    Theta is +122
    Vega is +2,272
     
    #11404     Oct 25, 2006
  5. How are you saying its delta neutral?.
     
    #11405     Oct 25, 2006
  6. tplast

    tplast

    Just a note. The futures are left overs from the synthetic straddles I enetered about 2 weeks ago at 1372. The whole thing would probably shitft down if I entered the trade today.
     
    #11406     Oct 25, 2006
  7. tplast

    tplast

    Well, not exactly but compared to the magnitude of vega.
     
    #11407     Oct 25, 2006
  8. spooky huh...

     
    #11408     Oct 25, 2006

  9. It sure is...
     
    #11409     Oct 25, 2006
  10. burrben

    burrben

    Coach,

    So I have been kinda blanking when you are talking about these fly's, since I don't think you can do them in a retail margin account. So my question is:

    Which strategies, other than credit spreads or double diagonals, have you mentioned that are reasonable to do without haircut margin?

    Thanks for the help, since some of us just will not be able to use haircut margin anytime soon!

    burr.
     
    #11410     Oct 25, 2006