The Calendar Options newsletter continued its positive trend in the fourth quarter, giving us our best return to date. Our model-portfolio¹ return for the quarter exceeded 40%, bringing our total return for 2009 (not including the cost of commissions) to 55.62%. The maximum drawdown, standard deviation, and number of months positive for the newsletter model portfolio were all comparable to the S&P 500...
Monday, December 28, 2009
The iron condor newsletter returned over 18% in the final quarter this year, versus 3% for the benchmark and market index, and also managed to outperform both the market and our benchmark for 2009. Just as importantly, our maximum drawdown (9%) and standard deviation (5.6%) were nearly identical to those of the market as a whole (9%, 5.7%), indicating that we also outperformed on a risk-adjusted basis. There is a common misconception that an iron condor options spread is only suitable during…
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Earlier this month, we announced a change in how we're going to publicize the performance of our strategies. Much as a company's performance and the price of its stock can suffer in the long-run as a result of too much focus on short-term performance, we believe that investors do best when they take a long-term perspective...
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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