Tag: Bearish Strategies

  • How to Play Next “Black Swan” Bear Leg

    Which side are you at? Bull or Bear? Based on the current market sentiments, general bullish bias, feeling of missing last up leg and given that every indicator is screaming buy buy buy, chances are that you are on the Bull’s side. If so, there is not much point reading this post any further.

    There are still a few perma-bears (and they have solid record to attach) are predicting about March lows being penetrated or touched again. This kept me thinking if I should listen to what they are saying given their past history.  So I worked out a low risk strategy that is explained later in the post. What if they (and hence my bet) is wrong, I’ll lose 100% of 1% trading capital that I have invested in this idea. But what if, even though it is only 4% probability, these guys are correct? First trade has potential to return over +2,800% with 4% delta based probability (by Dec’09 expiration) and another trade has potential to generate +700% with 24% probability (by Nov’09 expiration).

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