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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

October 2013 $RUT Bear Call Spread

This is the RUT trade I entered yesterday which I didn't find the time last night to blog about

Sold 4 RUT October 1120 Call @1.75
Bought 4 RUT October 1125 Call @1.25

Credit: 0.50 ($200)
Max Risk: 4.50 ($1800)
Days to expiration: 30
Probability of success: 82% (yesterday)

RUT closed yesterday (September 17, 2013) at 1066.39
The usual parameters I follow were all overbought (Stochastics 91, McClellan +182 and 72% of stocks above their 20 SMA)

If I need to adjust this position I will do it when the 1120 Call shows a 30% probability of expiring in the Money. At that point I will roll the spread up and probably out to November combining with the additional sell of some puts.

Check out Track Record for 2013

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2 comments:

  1. Does the 30% probability of expiring ITM translates into a delta of 30?

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  2. Not always. But it is a decent approximation most of the time.

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