....sang Bob Dylan, and as far as the S&P is concerned, nothing could be closer to the truth.
Thus we will construct the following combo, based on class ES (Feb. 1nth, Mar. 15nth) Options:
Sell short Mar. '13 ES 1490 Call (now at $28)
Sell short Mar. '13 ES 1420 Put(now at $7.50)
Buy Feb. '13 ES 1550 Call (now at $0.60)
Buy Feb. '13 ES 1400 Put (now at $1.50)
The margin cost of this E-mini S&P 500 Options combo is $1,600 and we shall revisit it when S&P drops below 1465, before Feb. 22 at the latest. Current S&P March Futures price: 1495.
On the contrary, Natural Gas already reached _less_ than 1 cent away from our target price yesterday! And our monitor showed a $370 profit for our combo published on Jan. 22 or, in other words, a hefty 46% yield!