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Archive for January 2012

Threading the needle

In Trades on 27 January 2012 with no comments

The first month of trading with my new options strategy ended with modest success, as I managed to “thread the needle,” and have the SPY stay within 2 points of itself from last Friday to this Friday: All in all, I added $450 to the bank as the weekly SPY 131 option spreads I sold […]

Market rises, Doug falls back a bit

In Trades on 20 January 2012 with no comments

The market’s rise to about 1310 this week meant that I absorbed a small loss on my short term SPY spreads; I sold three January 128 spreads for $2.29 last Friday, and bought them back for $3.08 today, all told a loss of $237.00. I put the position back on with weekly SPY options for […]

So far, so good . . .

In Trades on 13 January 2012 with no comments

In the first week of 2012……

A new year calls for a new strategy

In Uncategorized on 6 January 2012 with no comments

A very Happy New Year to anyone who follows Cape Cod Doug, and I hope it will be a good one for you! Obviously, I haven’t been posting here much recently, as my work has overwhelmed me for much of the autumn of 2011, and my trading therefore ground to a halt. A preliminary review […]