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#1. Direction-Neutral Options Trading
#2. Uncorrelated Trading Strategies
#3. Directional Futures Trading
#4. Strategies for Speculation


...and if that doesn't excite you... well... you're probably better off playing the lottery!



Date Portfolio Value (with Gross P/L) Portfolio Value (with Net P/L)
01-28-06
$100,000
$100,000
02-28-06
102,962
102,038
03-31-06
109,640
107,774
04-14-06
116,013
113,797
05-11-06
123,771
120,680
06-02-06
128,367
124,319
07-02-06
141,640
136,139
07-19-06
146,676
140,798
07-31-06
147,534
141,525
07-31-06
148,532
142,523

The JustinLent.com $100,000 "Paper-Folio"

The "Paper-Folio," started in January 2006, is now profitable:
+42.5% Year-to-date.
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I do all my trading at www.ThinkOrSwim.com

***I started paper-trading this strategy as a hobby since I had to stop trading it for my real portfolio due to trading restrictions imposed by my new employer (a large Wall Street firm). I still paper-trade it simply because I'm passionate about options-trading, and I want to keep my hand in it so these trading skills stay sharp***

To see the results I achieved while trading this for 18 months in my real portfolio, click here.

If you're interested in hearing more about the strategy, contact me at: justin@justinlent.com

Speculative Insights & "Paper-Folio" Options Trading

Analysis of the hedging and rebalancing of a "direction-neutral" option portfolio's greeks, as well as insights on directionally trading other *hot* markets.

Monday, September 18, 2006

Go Short on US Treasury Long-bonds

Look at this chart of the 30 year T-bond.... The US1 continuous contract is what I have graphed below...


Pretty much a perfect Fibonacci retracement on the pattern here. We've retraced 60% (I like using round number, 61.8% implies a bit to much precision if you use the textbook Fib values). As most of you know who are well-versed in Fib trading, 38.2%, 50% and 61.8% retracements are all valid "continuation" patterns. Therefore, my belief is that the bonds sell off here (causing rates to go higher). I wish I had the longer term chart out to 2002 to post (I'll get it for tomorrow), as it shows this same sell-off, retracement of selloff, then continuation sell off two previous times in the past 4 years in the 30-year bond. Also, if you look at the more recent price action you can see a bit of short-term double top forming, and if you squint (or just click on the picture to enlarge) you can see a couple days ago the T-bond had back-to-back bearish engulfing bars... In the interest of full disclosure, I'm currently short these bonds via the Rydex 200% Inverse mutual fund RYJUX since I cannot trade the real futures contract (the US contract) due to certain trading restrictions from my employer).

A very similar setup is available on the 10 year Note (TY1 contract on Bloomberg).

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