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It looks like in 2014 I was closing them for a small amount. I made some changes each year and 2015 it looks like I was letting them expire and then setting new ones up possibly on Monday morning. There were years where I liked to be all cash over almost every weekend.

It has been a while since I reviewed that strategy. I'll have to back and see if I have any notes on when I was actually closing / re-opening.

The $15,000 was the initial amount used for the "account", not stating it was 100% of one's capital. I used $15k as I based it off someone who had $100,000 in capital and I don't recommend more than 15% of capital used to begin a strategy like this. The duration was typically opening on...

Yes, I put in a VIX adjustment value so I can limit the historical data for the past 13 years to times with similar volatility. Or I can use a high value and capture all the historical moves regardless of the VIX. At the top right of my spreadsheet I can also extract data after certain other...

I don't really keep track of yearly returns anymore. I retired 6 years ago at age 46 and now just trade for income with capital preservation my biggest priority. So I keep more in cash and/or do more longer term catastrophic adverse trades such as Bear Call Spreads on SPX. I also will sell...

Thanks. I still use this all the time. I have been doing more long term SPX vertical spreads. For example I put on last Friday the Dec 2650 -2675 BeCS for $2.20 credit when SPX hit a new intra-day high. I could close it today for $1.45 and make $0.75 on $22.80 risked = 3.29% return in a...

I added a short description of each of my AAPL online tools. I could not trade AAPL stock and options without this data. If you know how AAPL tends to move / trade over any time period you can make great returns. Here is the page with the description of the various tools for AAPL (and...

I collect and analyze a large amount of data on AAPL to help with trading the stock and options. I've had requests for samples of the information I provide. Here is a page I set-up with samples of the data and a brief description. This info can definitely help with your AAPL trading...

Some of the tools on the Online Tools page are free for you to try out. http://activetrader999.wix.com/online-tools

I trade options (usually vertical spreads) on AAPL, SPX, RUT, and NDX based on historical trading patterns. While brokerages can provide probabilities of success based on historical moves and standard deviations, the ability to make further adjustments is limited. For example, they may provide...

We have had a 63% pop in the VIX over the past 3 trading days. This has only happened a handful of times since 1990. For those interested in how the market has moved after such a large 3-day move in the VIX, here are some SPX moves over the next few days: 1-Day after: SPX up 5 of the 6...

I added a new feature to the SPX Calculator. You can limit the data to similar historical periods when the VIX has had a pop / drop of a certain % over a certain # of days. We just had a Fri-Fri VIX move up of 45%. Here is the data limited to past 5-day moves when the VIX had a 30% or more pop...

My SPX Calculator can be a great analysis tool on big move days like today. Here is an example looking at historical moves when SPX was down 2% on the pivot day. To remove all positive moves, I changed the Opening Day positive move to 100%. Then I changed the Negative move to -2% or more. I...

Opened next week SPXPM $20 wide 1850-1870 / 2020-40 for .90

The YTD results and list of trades can be found on my old site I keep active for some info on what I offer and examples of data analysis I do. http://aapltrader99.home.comcast.net/~aapltrader99/Apple_Trading/Double_Your_$$.html