We had a totally exciting week last week!

I was busy this weekend so no Wrap-Up but I did write about 5 pages of commentary under Sage’s $1,000,000 Portfolio article regarding portfolio allocations and scaling strategies – all Members should read that!   We were discussing our Disaster Hedges as well which are all well in the money but hardly a double in the bunch so far, which is actually fantastic news if you haven’t entered them yet as you can enter these plays now and still do great if EITHER the market continues lower OR the VIX calms down since it’s the high VIX that is keeping us from making big money.  These are October hedges so no one expects them to pay off this early but the fact that you can still get in them even after this dip is a nice break if you intend to start getting bullish and want hedges. 

We took shorter-term hedges for more aggressive traders during the last week of April and those, of course, are up very nicely like: 

  • EDZ June $38/44 bull call spread at $2.80, now $3.50 – up 25%
  • EDZ June $35 puts sold for at $1.25, now .70 – up 44% (pair trade)
  • FAZ July $12/16 bull call spread at $1.10, now $1.35 – up 18%
  • FAZ July $10 puts sold for .70, now .50 – up  28%
  • IYR May $52 puts at $1.30 (fell to .79), now $2 – up 54%
  • OIH May $131 calls sold for $3.45, now .05 – up 98%
  • OIH May $131 calls sold for $3.90, now 05 – up 99%
  • QID May $16 calls at .32 (fell to .27), now $1.27 – up 296%
  • QID May $15 puts sold for .32 (rose to .37), now .02 – up 94% (pair trade)
  • QID June $14/16 bull call spread at $1.15, now $1.50 – up 30%
  • TBT Sept $43 puts sold for $1.50, now $3.90 – down 160%
  • TBT Sept $43/48 bull call spread at $2.60, now $1.55 – down 36%
  • TZA June $6 puts sold for .70 (rose to .94), now .74 – down 5%
  • UGL Oct $49/54 bull call spread at $2, now $2.50 – up 25%
  • GLD March $90 puts sold for $1.20, now $1.40 – down 17% (pair trade)
  • VNO May $80 calls sold at $2.30 (rose to $3.90), now $1.85 – up 19%

As I often say, sometimes the best way to enter a trade is AFTER they are down and most of these hedges were down as of May 2nd, when I published the Wrap-Up for that week.  We don’t always get optimal entries – that’s why we…
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