Vertical Spreads for Aggressive Growth

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Cache Landing, Jan 27, 2006.

  1. earlier in the week I sold 1350/1375 then yesterday or daybefore and today sold 1330/1350 stomping over the 1350's so now I have 1330/1375 OCT call spread. The plan on this is not to hold to Oct but close given some time and downward action.
     
    #921     Sep 1, 2006
  2. ryank

    ryank

    A 45 point wide spread? Go big or go home :D!
     
    #922     Sep 1, 2006
  3. donna,


    you are going to give me a heart attack with these 45 pointers. :eek:
     
    #923     Sep 1, 2006
  4. its as close as I can get to being naked:D
     
    #924     Sep 1, 2006
  5. if this kind of trading is appealing to you, perhaps you should look into ES call frontspreads.
     
    #925     Sep 1, 2006
  6. can't trade options on futures yet...I'm very interested in coach's diagonals using the EW/ES
     
    #926     Sep 1, 2006
  7. ryank

    ryank

    I like the way he uses the end of month and regular expiration options, gives you more choices. I will wait until ToS has options on futures to use that strategy. In the mean time I get to watch others experiment with them and follow along.
     
    #927     Sep 1, 2006
  8. ryank

    ryank

    The 3 days of time decay didn't bother you on this one? Why not wait until Monday?
     
    #928     Sep 2, 2006
  9. The time decay was probably already priced in when he bought the put but I'm a little surprised Cache you didn't first sell an OCT call spread and wait for a turn in the mkt to buy the put.
     
    #929     Sep 2, 2006
  10. cache already has a sep bear call spread which might get in trouble over the next week or two. I am sure he is probably waiting to see how this one plays out before he opens up another one. Atleast thats what i am doing, though i agree this is a pretty good place to open OCT positions.
     
    #930     Sep 2, 2006