atticus' "ship it" vol trading journal

sellindexvol66 · Sep 14, 2012

Quote from Doobs789:

Yeah, no kidding.

Doobs, this is all i trade...few people can..when i see a good directional trade in my turf i am man enough to compliment it.

cdcaveman · Sep 14, 2012

Quote from sellindexvol66:

Doobs, this is all i trade...few people can..when i see a good directional trade in my turf i am man enough to compliment it.

i had a feeling you were reading this thread...

atticus · Sep 17, 2012

Out 17.10. Too much risk into a potential mini iPad rollout.

atticus · Sep 17, 2012

No trades in AAPL for the time being. Long the MA Sep 45/55/65 fly from 3.60 is a good risk here. To limits.

jtrader33 · Sep 17, 2012

Quote from atticus:

No trades in AAPL for the time being. Long the MA Sep 45/55/65 fly from 3.60 is a good risk here. To limits.

In @ 3.50 (calls)

atticus · Sep 17, 2012

Quote from bs2167:

In @ 3.50 (calls)

Yeah, got a little hasty but it's still very cheap.

jtrader33 · Sep 17, 2012

I was just happy to get done...been too greedy on most of these and whiffing.

johnshepherd59 · Sep 17, 2012

Quote from atticus:

Yeah, got a little hasty but it's still very cheap.

Managed 3.55. Already up.

atticus · Sep 17, 2012

Nice, guys. I am looking for 4.50 by Wed close.

atticus · Sep 17, 2012

Quote from atticus:

Performance to date: +11.7% after comms.

Going wide to replicate the straddle with another 50-wide. It's difficult when trading a single name to 100% allocation.

635/685/735 at 16.95 bot (16.75 mid), 694.4x spot. Basically an SPX call as I don't believe we'll hold these gains.

Performance to date: +12.4% after comms. PTT draw of 4.2%. PF of ~3.