3K monthly income on a 100K account

Mainly, I sell options when VIX is high and buy high yield stocks when VIX is low.
Nothing special, I just trade like others but spend less than few hours a day as I work as a sales rep for cancer labs, i.e. driving around most of the day.

Universaller, what strategies have you been using to reach a 57.86% growth so far this year?
 
Mainly, I sell options when VIX is high and buy high yield stocks when VIX is low.
Nothing special, I just trade like others but spend less than few hours a day as I work as a sales rep for cancer labs, i.e. driving around most of the day.

Very simple!! Good Job! Thx!
 
A franchise restaurant like a subway has it's advantage too over a DIY noname corner shop and your own brand of sandwiches. Just like trading there is no right or wrong way to go about running a small business.

The entire argument against doing a franchise is the franchisee fee you need to pay. But thats just a ridiculous notion to use against opening a franchise. Sure your profits can be much better if you start your own restaurant and its successful. Heck, maybe you even become the franchiser down the road, go public and be a billionnaire in the future. But I've seen areas where no name restaurants and coffee shops have come and gone, while the likes of subway, starbucks, and mcdonalds have been staying strong for decades in the same area.

There is a reason franchises are successful and they work. Its because people trust and are used to the brand and that there are quality standards that you can expect. Also, people move around, and so when you move to a new area, you're likely to goto a name you know and trust more frequently than some other unknown restaurant.

Of course franchises can fail too. For example I notice franchises seem to work near colleges and universities I suppose where students will be patrons of these brand names that they can trust whereas, students may not want to go to a local knarly looking sandwich shop that charges $10 per with questionable health code standards, versus going to a subway and getting a meatball sub for $5.
 
[sarcasm begins]You are aware that there are other stocks out there besides Google, yes?[sarcasm ends]

Your example illustrates why I don't sell naked on big name stocks, ETFs, indices or futures, namely, very little bang for your buck. A high priced low IV stock like GOOGL requires way too much margin and you basically have to sell ATM to get any premium.

As I type this your example option looks like this on my account:

GOOGL trading just below $590
Aug1 570 strike put is only 3.3% OTM and has a bid of $8.50
Margin requirement is $16,625
That's a 5.11% ROI with 30 calendar days (21 trading days) to go.

IMHO this is too much margin and too close to the money to trade. But if you're super confident that GOOGL is going to stay the same or go up then you can drastically improve your numbers by turning this trade into a bull put spread by buying the 565 put.

My numbers for this spread are:

The ask for the Short 570 Put - Long 565 Put is $0.50, bid is $2.50
Margin is $500
ROI now jumps to 10%
But you'd be stupid to take the ask price when you can easily get in around the midpoint of ~$1.50
That pushes ROI to 30%

I still wouldn't take this trade because it's too close to the money, but at least you're making better use of your margin. You now only need to use 10% of your $100k to make $3k. Although you would be at a high risk of losing your bet.
LOL.... just ignore fxforex. Can't take him seriously. I doubt he trades options. He was the guy who was arguing hand over fist against doing spreads by buying further OTM options and thinks its a better strategy across the board. There is a reason people do spreads. He doesn't seem to grasp it and hinges his argument on one lucky trade he force feeds as an example of his supremacy in trading.

You are right. Selling options for low IV big cap isn't as juicy in % of portfolio basis compared to high IV high beta stocks that your broker also allows for reduced margining. But of course, with that comes higher risks of loss. They are high beta afterall and likely to make bigger moves. You essentially get what you pay for. Its the insurance business. More risky, higher premium.
 
[sarcasm begins]You are aware that there are other stocks out there besides Google, yes?[sarcasm ends]

Your example illustrates why I don't sell naked on big name stocks, ETFs, indices or futures, namely, very little bang for your buck. A high priced low IV stock like GOOGL requires way too much margin and you basically have to sell ATM to get any premium.

As I type this your example option looks like this on my account:

GOOGL trading just below $590
Aug1 570 strike put is only 3.3% OTM and has a bid of $8.50
Margin requirement is $16,625
That's a 5.11% ROI with 30 calendar days (21 trading days) to go.

IMHO this is too much margin and too close to the money to trade. But if you're super confident that GOOGL is going to stay the same or go up then you can drastically improve your numbers by turning this trade into a bull put spread by buying the 565 put.

My numbers for this spread are:

The ask for the Short 570 Put - Long 565 Put is $0.50, bid is $2.50
Margin is $500
ROI now jumps to 10%
But you'd be stupid to take the ask price when you can easily get in around the midpoint of ~$1.50
That pushes ROI to 30%

I still wouldn't take this trade because it's too close to the money, but at least you're making better use of your margin. You now only need to use 10% of your $100k to make $3k. Although you would be at a high risk of losing your bet.
It should also be noted as of this morning, those Aug01 570 strike GOOGL puts are bidding at $15.4 on the open. Margin required in excess of $100K and that seller has been liquidated. Ouch.
 
It should also be noted as of this morning, those Aug01 570 strike GOOGL puts are bidding at $15.4 on the open. Margin required in excess of $100K and that seller has been liquidated. Ouch.


FYI
...... With a Naked Put position you should be watching the ask quotes, not the bid quotes.


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With a Naked Put position you should be watching the ask quotes, not the bid quotes.


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LOL... you're hilarious. You seem like a guy that likes to appear right on an internet forum than be right on a trade.

Anyway youre just playing semantics. Actually, they were on the ask side. BTW, one man's ask is another man's bid.. but philosophy aside.

But yes, I'm aware your trade was selling the put. If you were sophisticated enough, you'd realize that price was the closing ask price for that short put at the open.

In any case...
 
No it's not "semantics". You have to know the difference of bid vs. ask.

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A few things:

(1) You need to learn how to trade. Your trade just blew the account and it would have been liquidated already.
(2) It is semantics. You had to do a comeback to keep up with your perception of some kind of reputation you think you have here, so you picked a word I said and ran with it to detract from your bad trade. It was irrelevant sidetracking.
(3) You are not a sophisticated trader and have lack of attention to detail. You should have realized I was posting the correct price of that naked put option to close it right at the open at a loss thanks to you.
(4) A repeat but stick to learning how to trade first. Try to expand your horizons outside of FX.
(5) Finally, I didn't wanna butt in your two arguments earlier but the guy was right and you are wrong. It is theoretically possible to get double digit % monthly gain by selling premium of high IV high beta names, provided the trade works in your favor.
 
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