mandag 4. oktober 2010

Friday 1st of October

Welcome to the 4th Quarter, normally the best 6 months period for stock market is from November through April. Regarding October, historically has been the 7th best month for the Dow, stocks rising 57 % of the time since the index was founded 113 years ago.
The S&P futures had an inside day today, trading inside the previous day's range and the today's range was 12 points (1134.50 low to 1146.50 high)
Trading wise I mainly concentrated on trading the expiring weekly contracts on ES, selling calls puts on the 1140 level for expiration today and hedging in the futures and we went up and down the range. I made about 2 points in the futures and good amount in the options and ending the 0,86% higher on the day.
The only change I did outside of the expiring options for today was to sell some 1140 calls for 8 Oct. and some 1130 puts for 8 Oct. that I trade out of the start of next week. Received 19 points for selling that spread.
I also bot November 79 put in Crude oil (CL) (for expiration October), paying 0,90 to 0,91 for the trade.
Would like to remind that the key levels in ES are 1153.50 and 1127.25, basically the week's high and lows, important levels for next week as those are the levels to break to make a more directional move. Still have that gap down at 1105.75 also that I have noted down as possible downside target.

That is all for now, take care.

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