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Calendar Options Monthly Review

Saturday, July 4, 2009

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Our positions for the June cycle were like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In general, it was another difficult month, in terms of falling implied volatility and, in the case of our IBM trade, an uptrend culminating in a whipsaw—but we still managed to break even: hitting the target profit for our SPY position made up for our IBM loss. And even though we underperformed the market for the month, we’re still outperforming handily over the long-run.

Calendar Options Monthly Review, Part II

Thursday, May 28, 2009

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In Part I, our Performance Comparison for May showed an average return per trade of 6.40%, with a model portfolio* return of 5.13%—compared to the S&P 500's gain of 1.53%. Here are the trades that got us there:

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