Quote from Mvic:
It gets worse as I also have calls on Bidu and AMZN that are underwater. Altogether I am down 127K on those and my GS calls. The reason I'm not sweating it is because I am UP 640K on my EEM puts alone. I was/am looking to protect my EEM position from a significant bounce or a run to new highs.
FWIW when I posted about smelling a rally the YM was trading at 13435-45 and subsequently rallied 50-60 points to 13495 within the next 30 mins before failing. GS rallied $3 in the same time frame. Like I said FWIW which ain't much as I didn't take advantage of the failed rally to close my position but after the last few months being being short and having to enduring the rip roaring rallies I couldn't see all my gain evaporate once again hence keep these hedges on even when market action suggests otherwise.
As far as Monday goes I am not sure we will see follow through immediately, we may get a bounce as the buying on the end of the slide Friday was pretty strong with plenty of 600-900 lot trades on the ES going off on the offer. It may have just been covering but I am feeling better about Monday still holding these high beta calls, I am hoping we get substantial downside follow through but I wouldn't be able to hold the size I am without being hedged.
BSC conference call tanked the market, monday is another day.
