OPNewsletter delivered +8.46% for the Aug 2010 Income portfolio on a 51% portfolio capital investment. As you may know, since mid of April 2010 we reduced our capital allocation to trading as we were anticipating this market meltdown which started around 3-4th week of April. For Sept 2010 opened portfolios, we are up +4.3% and these results do not include results from speculative/bonus trades.
This is our 31st positive month, out of a total 33 months of Paid Subscription based OptionPundit newsletter throughout the phase-1 and phase-2 and these times include one of the worst market conditions since the 1930s.
At present, OPNewsletter clients include ordinary part-time traders to professional Wall Street traders (trading their personal accounts) from over 20 countries and their trading experience varies from a few years to almost 2 decades of options trading. The live forum lives to help where community of traders share ideas and comment on other’s trades as well. Not only we do Iron Condor, we also invest Calendars, diagonals, double diagonals, backspread and many more. We have also started reviewing (with real-money) option trades for newly introduced weeklies (currently AAPL is up +24%, AMZN is up +30% and GOOG is almost breakeven). This is how whole trading experience comes to live real time.
Trade what you know, learn what you don’t know !
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Delivering consistency isn’t about trading 1 Iron Condor/month for a small size capital account. When you are trading a US$100,000 account that requires patience, discipline, a well defined control over greed & fear and strategies that are beyond just 1 Iron Condor. And there are many traders in OPNewsletter who trade with over US$100,000 capital. Preserving capital then takes higher priority order as opposed to investing every opportunity you see. At times, you will let go opportunities (hindsight bias) in anticipation of major market moves that might derail the portfolios. We place hedges, which sometimes are one of the dampeners for higher results but that’s ok, that’s part-n-parcel of trading life.
No matter how much marketing blitz would like you to believe, there is no “secret” to trading success; it is the EXTRA DEGREE of perseverance, EXTRA DEGREE of risk management, EXTRA DEGREE of disciplined trading, EXTRA DEGREE of what if scenario planning and EXTRA DEGREE of “Rational Expectations”.
Welcome to OptionPundit! The EXTRA DEGREE in your option trading.
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