Tag: RUT Iron Condor
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OPNewsletter (Oct’09) Up +9.5%
88.7% capital invested, no major adjustment needed, all but one portfolios made money and closed, 1 portfolio still open (down -2.9%), OPNewsletter delivered +9.58% x -commissions and +7.8% including commissions. As good as it gets. We are starting to look out and analyze opportunities for November 2009 income portfolio. If you are not an OPNewsletter…
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OPNewsletter Jun’09 up 11.7% (Open), Jul’09 (Opening Soon)
Another turbulent but positive week for the broader markets. I sent out a note to OPN Subscribers and Basic Members (Free, till dec’09) that don’t trust the sharp rally post employment numbers. The rally did disappeared. Overall OPNewsletter gained almost 3% this week, we did raise investment capital by a few percent behind some adjustments.…
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OPNewsletter Jun’09 is up 8.6% (Open)
A turbulent but positive week for the broader markets, as well as for OPN. OPNewsletter is up +8.6% (x- brokerage commissions) and +6.6% (including commissions). This excludes returns from bonus trades on GDX straight calls, GMCR and POT. Though we have started generating credit thus increasing the cash portion, we are still assuming 57.3% of…
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OPNewsletter – May’09 (+9.48%), Jun’09 (Open)
OPNewsletter closed May’09 for +9.48% x-commissions and +6.76% inclusive of commissions. As I stated earlier, after many months of waiting, we crossed our 60% portfolio investment target. It’s always an advantage if the capital was preserved. Yes we did have a few months of low returns, but that preserved capital is an out performance (vs…
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OPNewsletter Jan’09 : +4.06%, Feb’09 (Opening Soon)
OP Newsletter Jan’09 Income portfolios grew to +6.84% excluding brokerage commissions. However, including commissions; overall OPN grew by +4.06%. Our Jan’09 Income Iron Condor is closed for +14.27%. Just for perspective, not even a single OPN RUT Iron condor lost money in 2008. For Jan’09 portfolios, OPN used up maximum of 34.14% of overall assumed…
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A Terrible, and A Fantastic Week
It was a terrible week for U.S. stocks and equally for almost every major stock markets worldwide. The Dow fell 157.47 points, or 1.5%, on Friday to close at 10,325.38, racking up a 7.3% drop for the week. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 29.33 points, or 1.5%, on Friday to close at 1,947.39 and lost 10.8% for…