Weekly Options Experiment

I closed RIMM 16/18 call spread, as there was no point to keep it. Total loss for the trade is about -370. I opened another:
Buy 7 RIMM Feb-1-13 15/16.5 Call Vertical
 
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Were you able to backtest this? What do the results show?
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Yes and no, that's the problem. Direction is decided upon range of trend following systems and this is backtested. When it comes to options, I plug in current numbers (volatility, days to expiration, distance to strike) to my model and look what would have happened if I bought only such options/spreads. Only if equity in last 10 years is good enough, I make a trade.
So it's not a system that I backtested, but it is fully systematic and I look at historical equity before I make a trade.
As the title says, it's an 'experiment'. I have to check this live (I mean including comm and bid/ask spread - the account I use is paper trade) before going real money. It may not work, I might not know what the hell I'm doing, but at least I'll learn a lot.
 
I had to close RIMM spread again, at this prices my model showed no profitability. I opened a new one:
Buy 6 RIMM Feb-1-13 14/15.5 Call Vertical
 
Another bad day. Wow, nice beginning. Good thing is, that trading options I've lost only -0.32% today, despite trading with about 4:1 lev. On average markets moved -0.73% against me. I wonder what will happen if and when market move my way.
 
I closed RIMM again with a small loss ( ~ $100). I will not open any new positions on this until Friday. SLV is going fine, finally I might make some virtual money.
 
Finally a profitable day. Profit on a account today +1.20%. Funny thing is, markets moved -0.68% against me on average. With futures this would be -2.38% loss on a account.
 
I'm starting to close my positions. New trades for the next week:
Buy 11 RIMM Feb-8-13 12/13.5 Call Vertical
Buy 3 AAPL Feb-8-13 435 Put
Buy 3 BIDU Feb-8-13 110/115 Put Vertical
Buy 40 C Feb-8-13 43/44 Call Vertical
Buy 5 F Feb-8-13 13 Call
Buy 8 FB Feb-8-13 29/31 Call Vertical
Buy 30 FXE Feb-8-13 136 Call. Previous call closed.
Buy 2 GLD Feb-8-13 163 Call
Buy 2 GOOG Feb-8-13 770 Call
Buy 10 IBM Feb-8-13 205 Call
Buy 20 S Feb-8-13 5.5 Call
Buy 40 SLV Feb-8-13 31 Call
 
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