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Options Trading

Closed, and rolling

December 12, 2008 by Ryan Barr

I’ve closed my FXP(31.37 +0.36), SDS(17.57 +0.26), and SRS(31.50 +0.65) positions.  I’ve opened an SSO(49.32 -0.89) call position for January as well. As expected, it appears that President Bush is going to tap the TARP money to bailout the auto industry.  I’ve taken advantage of the low open this morning and scalped a bit of [...]

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Oh my, my… The futures are just falling apart

December 11, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Well look at that.  Senator Reid decided to make a few comments this evening and the futures market seems to have absolutely fallen apart. Today I closed out the majority of my longs and went into the following positions in my personal account January Calls on FXP(31.37 +0.36), SDS(17.57 +0.26), SRS(31.50 +0.65) and a QLD(47.97 [...]

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Position Management

November 24, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Trading in this market is extremely difficult.  I’ve been fortunate enough to make a nice return so far, however I’ve made more mistakes than I care to admit. For example, just this morning I committed a super blunder… Over the weekend, Citigroup received a huge bailout package and the market responded this morning.  I figured [...]

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Trading, and making a killing!

November 14, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Admittedly, the posts to the blog have been few and far between lately.  With school, Ryder (our new addition), the move to the Windy City, a new job, my old job, and everything else in between – it has been rough! That said… I’m making a killing in this market!  For about a week I [...]

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What a ride!

October 15, 2008 by Ryan Barr

I  haven’t played any paper money positions over the past few days; however, I’ve been swing trading this market daily and it has been quite a ride! I started the cylce week by going long (calls) with a vertical spread on the 6th, bad, bad idea.  That position quickly lost more than 1/2 of it’s [...]

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Well hello there!

May 28, 2008 by Ryan Barr

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve said anything on the blog.  So here is what’s happening.  My single trade in May worked out just fine.  The paper money account is nicely up for the year, so is my personal account. I’ll try to find another trade coming up here shortly.  The markets look [...]

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Ah… the smell of money

April 15, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Here we go again. It’s just about option expiration Friday and it’s looking like the papermoney and my personal positions are all shaping up to be quite nice. I’ve also put out a few orders for a few new May positions, basically copying the current April ones and rolling them out. I’ll post the positions [...]

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Positions update

April 13, 2008 by Ryan Barr

With about a week to go until expiration it’s time to give an update on my current positions. Papermoney The papermoney positions for this month are in great shape! As I write this post on Sunday, the last trade on the DIA(123.31 -1.26) was at 123 and the SPY(129.74 -1.12) at 133. Those two quotes [...]

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Dipping my toe in the water

April 1, 2008 by Ryan Barr

Okay, so today I put on another position in my personal account.  The size of the position isn’t very large, but I think it’s a pretty good play.  It is on the RUT(747.21 +0.00) and is a bullish Put spread. Today I sold the April 2008 630/620 PUT Spread on the CBOE for $.50. The [...]

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I’m out – January RUT Position is closed

January 17, 2008 by Ryan Barr

I’ve been filled on my closing orders to buy back the current RUT(747.21 +0.00) position for $0.15 debit.  I realize that I may have left some profit on the table here – however getting my money out of the market to avoid expiration risk was worth it to me.  I have seen the RUT gap [...]

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