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Tag: Consistent Income

  • OPNewsletter April +9.7% (closed); May +12% (Open)

    While markets are struggling to make any meaningful advance, for OPNewsletter, we are having another excellent month. We closed April’10 portfolios for +9.7% gains, and for May income portfolios, we are up +12% with 3 weeks to go. These results don’t include gains on speculative trades. Another point to note, these were also two months when I significantly upped investments allocation. In April’10 we invested 88% of capital and this month we invested 75% of capital. If one considers compounding effect, these income trades resulted in +18% gains on overall capital in just two expiration cycle alone (still 3wks to go).

    We achieved most of these results, by having plans in advance and shifting our option trading strategy in way so that more trading alerts can be sent before or after market hours to allow even working professionals to benefit.

    OPTweetsHere is a snapshot of my speculative trades (even for free ideas, just check the screenshot of my tweets). It was an excellent time to generate gains from Goldman Sachs (GS), Harman (HAR), Wynn Resorts (WYNN), VIX, Google(GOOG), Baidu (BIDU), Intuitive Surgical (ISRG). The only losing trade was McAfee (MFE) (we played it as a takeover rumor) which was also up +40% at one time.

    If you are not an OPNewsletter member and would like to sign-up, pls click here to sign-up for the waitlist as OPNewsletter subscription is open via invitation only.

    It has been over 3 years since OPNewsletter was first introduced. I am so thankful to all subscribers and a special thanks to those who have been with me since the beginning. It’s been an absolute pleasure and honor to serve this community.

    As part of my final phase of OP Brand development, I am discontinuing “No Profit, No Fee” business model after May expiration cycle and make it a fixed fee. Old members may recall OPN Phase-1 was introduced @ $28/month, Phase-2 @ $148/month. I shall continue to limit subscribers through waitlist so that we continue to have quality in the OPN besides obtaining fills for our trades; for new members, their first month will still be “No Profit, No Fee”.

    With this change, I hope to bring more value to OP subscribers via-

    1. Introducing multiple months’ strategies; tracking those on monthly basis is challenging as those span over various months.
    2. Introducing more opportunity via additional income trades; I often run out of the limit for a $10k model and hence I step back from suggesting new trades.
    3. Spending time on developing OP into a full scale Option’s boutique introducing trading options on futures, forex and add even other countries.
    4. Eliminate transaction time required in refunding; instead redeploy that time to find more opportunities.
    5. Spend more time/develop plans for speculative/directional trades as well.

    I hope to bring more and more value to OPN members and make it much more rewarding experience. Thanks again for your valuable feedback.

    OPNewsletter is still not about “make money” in 5min per day. It still requires one to think and act vs let robots do it for them (at least to begin with). There are no short cuts for making money, consistently. Making money is a hard work and requires one to be patient and to learn and continuously sharpen the craft.  If you are not an OPNewsletter member and would like to sign-up, pls click here to sign-up for the wait list as OPNewsletter subscription is open via invitation only.

    Though it is still an art to make 5-10% monthly on small capital, making rather big % on large capital accounts, consistently, is a completely different game. (How large are the investments via OPNewsletter Portfolio?). That’s what the aim is, so that even if you have a medium to large sum of capital from retail investor perspective, OPNewsetter should be able to help you make consistent income.

    Option Trading strategies used were Double Diagonal, Iron Condor, Iron Fly, Butterfly Spreads, Credit spreads, Calendar spreads, Vertical spreads and some more.

    If you are not an OPNewsletter member and would like to sign-up, pls click here to sign-up for the waitlist as OPNewsletter subscription is open via invitation only.

    Should you have any questions, pls let me know,

    Warm regards, OP

  • A Record Month OPN (Jun’09) up +14.7%

    June 2009 was a record month (2009) for OPNewsletter! Overall June’09 OPN is closed up +14.7% (x- brokerage commissions) and +12.1% (including commissions). We invested almost 60% of 10K assumed capital across various sectors and diversified strategies. All the portfolios were closed positively. Overall an excellent performance that was almost double the OPNewsletter objective of 5-7% per month.

    Here is an update by individual portfolio-

    • GDX was closed for +5.15%
    • UPS was closed for +8.9%
    • X was closed for +13.85%
    • RUT was closed for +23.08%
    • DIA was closed for +22.89%
    • IWM was closed for +26.07%

    This doesn’t include returns on speculative trades on POT, GDX and GMCR, MCO and AAPL (Pls read here on OP calculates it’s results)

    To Reinforce what I said last week, and I still believe in it-

    Believe it or not, market internals are deteriorating day by day and the surprising thing so far is that it is still holding very well. I have trimmed my personal stock holdings by almost half (as lot of those increased by almost 60-70% in a few weeks time). The only holdings where i still continue to hold (or rather increase on every pull back) is gold. But pls don’t follow it without full due diligence as gold trading is not for everyone.

    This time around, our strategy was slightly different vs. usual way of adjusting. We were short delta all throughout the month, expecting for a sharp correction which didn’t arrive but markets didn’t rally either and didn’t go beyond the expected upsides break-even. This was a well thought out technical as well as psychological analysis that helped determine what to expect and when to move. We were short delta and as soon as markets fell, our results improved.

    This was another record setting month for RUT Iron condor. Since re-opening OPNewsletter in Jan’09, OPN’s RUT Iron Condor never lost money and just one condor alone was more than enough to pay for the subscription.

    We have started to open Jul’09 income portfolios. If you would like to sign-up, pls click here to join waitlist.

    Profitable Trading, OP

  • OPN Apr’09 +12.5%, 15th Positive Month (Out of last 16)

    Get ready for an action filled week that has lot of economic data flowing in, traders returning from holidays and banks announcing earnings. Of course, Banks have to have positive impact due to “relaxation” in Mark-to-market accounting rules. This week is also flooded with other earnings and option expiration schedule, an excellent environment for exceptional opportunities.

    April was another winning month for OPNewsletter. 15th out of last 16 months. In spite of the whipsaws we observed, this month didn’t require much adjustment, almost sitting idle generating cash for OPN trades. OPN has successfully rolled over the portfolios for May holdings (If you would like to sign-up for OPNewsletter, pls click here).

    OPN closed +12.54% x-commissions +9.10% including commissions. We used up almost 38% of our capital. That’s a pretty good returns considering that we could sleep well without worrying about adjustments. If not the last few days volatility of X, the results would have been far better, but that also didn’t result into any significant adjustments and we closed +11.78% based on the way OPN calculates for intra month and >+6% even assuming the max capital.

    IWM and USO portfolio closed for +13.97% and +14.55% based on OPN way of calculation. Essentially the returns are much higher when compared with less capital involved (OPN uses the maximum capital invested at any point as the base for the whole month vs only for the duration it was used). For more information on OPNewseltter, pls click here. This was the 2nd running month of profits for USO. Last month we closed USO portfolio for +22.8%.

    The above result doesn’t include results from speculative trades i.e. SKF +100%, AAPL +100%, NKE and FDX Put and so on. Some of these free trades and also the SKF smiling, BAC Trade, and AA Earning play were shared for free with the registered members. You may want to sign-up for the Basic Membership (Free until Dec 2009) that I use to share free trade alerts for registered members.

    Net, a great month and looking forward another one. We have already started May income portfolios and are positioned to take advantage of market moves. If you would like sign-up for OPNewsletter, pls click her e for OPN Waitlist.

    Profitable Trading, OP

  • OPNewsletter Portfolio up +37.5% in 2008

    Year 2008 was almost equally as good a year for OPNewsletter as 2007 especially when compared with any major benchmark index like S&P 500. In 11 months completion, from Feb’08 till Dec’08, OPNewsletter outperformed S&P500 by a wide app 70% margin.

    OPNewsletter Performance 2008

    During the year when the DJIA decline 33.84%, while the S&P 500 trimmed 38.49%, the NASDAQ lost 40.54% and Russell 2000 lost over 35%, OPNewsletter went up by +48.2% excluding brokerage commissions and +37.5% including retail brokerage commissions (my commissions are even lower than commissions I am assuming in the calculations). If however, I calculate the way usually option trading newsletter calculates (returns/amount invested), then OPN returns are +144% but we know, we don’t invest money that way. What really matters is the gain on overall capital.

    These results does NOT even include returns from bonus trades (earning play, momentum plays, almost risk free trades, swing trades, intra-day plays, etc.) where the success hit rate was over 80% (I didn’t spend time in counting too many bonus trades for past 11months, it is based on just the snapshot on the forum alone) and gains far outperforming losses.

    Here is a snapshot of the returns, portfolio capital invested and thus effective returns and compounding effect of OPNewsletter results.

    Except for the month of Aug’08, OPNewsletter has been positive every month. If you notice, very little capital was invested in the month of Oct’08 (expiration) and that was the month that most traders and investors alike want to forget. I warned OPNewsletter subscribers about the upcoming severity of the bears and we were on sidelines watching the show. We have been investing cautiously since then and only increased capital now for Jan’09 portfolios, that too only 30% so far. The maximum portfolio capital used was 84.3% for the May’08 expiration round.

    During this period, we opened several type of income spread including Iron Condors, Diagonal spread, Double diagonals, calendars, double calendars, credit spread, debit spreads, covered calls, Straight calls and puts and even purchased stocks where buying options was not making good sense.

    There are a lot of learnings that together with subscribers we have learned in the past year and things improves, we should be able to capitalize on those.

    Pls click here to read what do OPN subscriber think and browse OPNewsletter should you choose to join the OPN community.

    Going ahead looking for 3rd consecutive year of out-performance.

    Profitable Trading, OP

  • OPNewsletter – Dec +15.9%, Jan +0.46% (Open)

    December’08 was another positive month for the OPNewsletter delivering +15.9% including commissions. We prioritized preserving capital and invested only +14% of the assumed 10K portfolio inline with OPN’s philosophy of “When in doubt, Protect Capital first”. Even if we assume returns on overall capital that was a positive +2.23% after commissions. With the exception of Aug’08, 2008 overall was a wonderful year for OPNewsletter and its subscribers. OPN has outperformed almost any major market benchmark or any other major asset class (Dow, S&P500, Nasdaq, Gold, etc.). I shall share more details later.

    We have started opening our Jan’09 income portfolios and in the first week of opening, OPN is up +2.3% excluding commissions and +0.46% including commissions. We have invested 16.2% of trading capital this month so far, as Volatility and wide bid/ask spreads are not allowing to open good risk/reward trades.

    One of the key measure for any service oriented business is “customer satisfaction” in delivering the promise. How successful OPNewsletter is in terms of serving its subscribers? here is a testimonial (Sent on Nov 7, 08) from an OPN’s subscriber (for more testimonials, pls click here)

    Hi OP,
    Let me tell you that one thing. for OP subscribers the return on investment in last 60 days on paper might be low but in real terms each one of the subscribers should really be greatful to you for recommending to stay on the sidelines.

    I did not listen to your advise of staying on the sidelines (on my personal account) and paid the ultimate price. My trading account equity has shrunk significantly during last 60 days. I will have to rebuild the trading capital over the next few months . once I have around XXK, I might join back your service. Thanks for your understanding.

    Cheers
    -sb, Singapore

    At OPNewsletter, I am gearing-up for an interesting 2009. Having gone through a 2008 that it was, there are lot of learnings that I look forward to capitalize as we are entering into 2009.

    Profitable Trading, OP