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Trade Log NIFTY April 22Today NIFTY's move retraced 200 points after initial flat opening.
After move down tomorrow, I was expecting range bound action. NIFTY kept on moving up.
1. Overall Advance Decline ratio is near 1 to 1.
2. NIFTY gains largely due to Reliance and Zee Entertainment.
Tomorrow is expiry day. It is interesting to see how NIFTY reacts to level of 9250.
Trade Log NIFTY April 17NIFTY Gaped up. Since the breakout of 9250 was held for 15 Mins , I entered PUT 9200. This was aggressive because the level for stop loss was 9040 , which is way below the opening level.
1. 9200 PUT sold at 152 Rs
Then NIFTY touched 9220, which I though was a pullback.
2. 9100 PUT sold at 152 Rs
NIFTY crashed and consolidated around 9130. Then there was sharp rally in last 1.5 hrs. This is very difficult move.
Closed the day by squaring off both the positions.
Overall, NIFTY is making violent moves trapping trades who are looking for clear trend.
Dell has an awful balance sheetDell has been on the down for a year, now they are really going down. And they are still doing stock buy-backs. The stock is way too high. Dell will be the main stock dragging down the XLK ETF for the next two weeks, and the next two months. They could get in serious debt trouble here.
Dell is my number one short position with out-of-the-money put options into June.
Trade Log NIFTY April 7Nifty Gaped up and continued moving in one direction. I was thinking about this kind of day for last 3-4 sessions, but never imagined such a strong momentum. I could not capitalise this move fully. Ended the day with normal profit.
There are few points to keep in mind.
1) VIX did not fall proportional to this strong move.
2) 9100 continues to be strong resistance overhead.
But overall, this day will change view to bullish from consolidation for few days.
SPY range trading, AlphaOverBeta Technical AnalysisHello traders,
SPY had completed a 1-2-3 pattern and is consolidating its price pattern, this is very good technical news as price returned to standard behavior after moving wildly and unpredictably.
The current trade range is 245-265 in the short term, any move above the 265( which our model begins to increase the probability for! ) will provide a bullish short term indication,
moving below the 240-245 will provide the trigger that the market is headed to re-test the 220 lows.
We are currently short term bullish on SPY with PUT options hedging our position, crossing the 265-270 resistance will provide a major trigger to go long equities.
Trade Smartly,
Alon, AlphaOverBeta
NCLH sweet tradingNow to note on some of my trades went, well not great due to the virus. HL options expired and everything pretty much dropped. Even though I had some bear options on amd and spce. The virus didn't give a dam about it and if you were a bear you were lucky a little if you weren't reading the virus early stages in China, which AMD dump was given.
Now on to NCLH and why I'm bullish.
First the news
-On friday trump signed the 2trillion dollar stimulaus package with 4trillion set aside in case the 2trillion fails...hint hint it will fail.
-Now NCLH and the cruise lines weren't in the relief help in the bill, so on Friday and today they tanked with fear
- Trump has stated he will be buying/bailing them out with only NCLH leaving his mouth, so NCLH could be a safe accumulation phase and probably the most volital stock...I love it
-NCLH, only one I heard, is proactive and leasing their ships to the US gov to fight the virus and help treat people.
-One concern is that their staff has been reported lying about what NCLH is doing, yet the company told their emplyees to stop spreading rumors and the lies.
Now the virus, yes the virus is needed to do TA with uncertain so lets cover global news on it.
-USA becomes number one in case, yet still fewer deaths besides in major cites/high destiny population
-Vaccine/treatment is suppose to come later this fall, yet the average time of a vaccine is over a year, so next year is likely candidate to end the virus/be able to treat it.
-More and more world leaders are catching the virus and could cancel/delay the US elections.
Now into NCLH TA
-Side note I read that there have been alot of put sellers at the $10, yet take it with a grain of salt during this uncertainty and may be just stupid money against crusies.
-Now overview on the lines:
-the purple box is the range a bought NCLH on March 19 with the first blue horizontal line being a sell before it went to $20.
-Green line at $9.88 is todays buy near market open with that insane dump with fear from friday one could say
-Second blue line is the low of march 25-26 which could be a top with this buy in with the idea we could get into a tight range before making the big move.
-First red box of 30% is from todays buy to the low mar 24 before it had its move to $20. The second one is from todays buy to the low of the trading range of mar 25-26
-Emas are still far apart and looks towards more downside
-MACD looks like its gonna go bullish with a crossover as the selling platues out, could make another hill so still risky trade
-RSI is oversold, but not deadly oversold, just oversold by today.
-Volume is dropping and have an expected massive move soon since volume is still up there as today bulls hold the low $10 range.
I'm bullish on NCLH cause it was hit one of the hardest since china came out with the virus early this year. From what I read NCLH is the most proactive crusie line and during this bear trend in the market, I believe sub $10 or whenever you are confident there is hugh potential and upside. Also going on the assumption as the president said they will bail/buy out NCLH after discussion and them leasing their ships out is postive news to accumulate on and could get a bigger cut when they get their releif. Long esposer may hurt, but during this time and with a cheap price this is a great swing trading stock during this market.
NO PUT CALL BUY SIGNAL YET BASED ON THE 10 AND 20 WK MORE PAINTHE 10 AND 20 WEEK PUT CALL IS A TOOL IN MY MODEL TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE FOR A GOOD TREND TRADE WE STILL HAVE NO TRIN BUY SIGNAL AS WELL DO NOT LOOK TO TO BUY ANYTHING YET I STILL HAVE THE 5 TO 7 SPIRALS DUE 3/16 TO 3/21 AND I DO NOT FEEL THAT WE HAVE 5 WAVE DOWN I STILL THING THE SP SEES 2662 TO 2627 AND IWM 121 TO AS LOW AS 108 WAIT TILL ALL THINGS COME IN . THIS WILL BE WAVE A DOWN IN A LONG TERM BEAR .WE WILL HAVE A VERY VERY SHARP RALLY AND IT WILL BE VERY FAST OVER A 3 TO 5 WEEK RUN LIKE 2001 AND A FEW OTHER YEAR I WILL POST IN GREAT DETAIL LATER .BEST OF TRADES .WAVETIMER
MAT big winner?MAT looks like it has been consolidating for awhile now and with the recent put sweep and selloff in the markets, it looks ready for lower. The $9 puts for 17Apr have 43k oi and look very good if we reach our final put target, as long as this stays in the box we should be good to go lower.
VISL Small High Risk Position52 week Divergent lows, on high buy side volume.
First areas of interest I will look to sell are weekly resistance at $1.45 and monthly at $3.
Chart is a death spiral. Only someone absolutely insane would touch it right now.
If it breaks lower I will take the loss. Keeping position size small enough that even a drop to zero from here carries max 1% risk. Worth it. Break below $0.1995 is a sign that it is still headed lower.
BTC Put Ratio SpreadBTC-28FEB20 Put Ratio Spread
Sell 2x 2/28 6500P for 0.0430 ($315)
Buy 1x 2/28 7000P for 0.0700 ($510)
Net Credit: 0.0160 ($120)
Max Profit (if pinned @ 6500): Approximately 0.0850 ($620)
Margin Requirements: 0.2700 ($1975) due to Deribit not having complex orders
Break Even: $5,880
This is a neutral to bullish trade. Anything above 7000 and profits are capped at the credit received. Max profit is actually achieved if I am wrong directionally and we dump to 6500.
Adds some positive portfolio delta and brings in about $4.55 of positive daily theta.
If we see a strong move to the upside, I will look to buy a 6000P for less than the credit I received for the trade which will cut into profit potential but also remove all risk from the trade turning it into a free butterfly spread.
Any price action within the body (6000-7000) I will sit tight and let theta decay work in my favor. Would close out trade at 25% max profit (0.02125/$155).
This is a fairly high probability trade but will likely take a bit of time before showing decent profit. Expected move for this cycle is about +/- $1,350 so this can stay profitable even if we see a full move to downside. Will likely close out though if we see 6k breached.