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Best Short-Term Trade
February 1st, 2004
This week's
“best trade of the week”
is a continuation of the previous
week’s best trade,
where we left a QQQQ Put position open.
These trades were closed
with 44%
and
56% of profit.
For this week’s “trade of
the week”, "Buy QQQQ Call
#1" is opened
in order to close it later with profit if the index
moves in our favor.
|
Security |
Return |
| Put
#3 (QQQQ March) |
+44.00% |
| Put
#4 (QQQQ March) |
+56.52% |
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Total Profit: |
+$7,200 |

Even though the trades shown above were not entirely
without risk, they resulted in a
profit of $7,200
In the following, we would
like to show you the motivating factors that led us to
take above trades. For this purpose, we have created
what we call a 'Table of Trade
Motivators':
|
Trade |
Volume Motivation |
Market Commentary
on Members Home Page during the trade |
Buy Put #3
01/15/2004
Was left opened
last week |
During the market's
late morning and early afternoon advance it ran into
a very large resistive VMA spike to the upside. This
resistive volume spike began at 11:30, but quickly
came to a peak at 12:45. |
The fact that the
market has not reacted, in the short-term, to the
accumulating amounts of resistive volume to the
upside leads us to believe that there is now a
chance for there to be a mid-term correction,
not just a short-term correction. |
Buy Put #4
01/16/2004
Was left opened
last week |
Intraday, a large and
broad resistive VMA spike to the upside was seen at
12:45. This spike was substantially bigger than any
seen in quite some time. |
The fact that the
market has not seen a pullback in this situation
leads us to believe that a more substantial
correction may be in the offing. |
Sell Put #3, 4
01/28/2004 |
Shortly after 14:00,
the market began a swift decline throughout the rest
of the afternoon. During this decline the market
generated a very large amount of supportive volume
to the downside, which was focused in two peaks, one
at 14:45 and the other at 15:45, shortly before
closing. |
As a result, we
expect that the market will likely continue to
move higher in the mid- and long-term since we
have not seen any significant signals to suggest any
change in their current bullish up-trend. |
Buy Call #1
01/29/2004
Left opened |
During the market's
descent, it encountered several supportive VMA
spikes to the downside at 10:15, 11:45 and at 13:45. |
We still expect that
the market will continue to move higher in the mid-
and long-term as it continues in its bullish
up-trend. |
These are the trades which netted the returns shown
above:
Date |
Trade |
Strike |
Expiration |
Contracts |
Contract
Price |
Amount |
Profit |
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01/15/2004 |
Buy Put #3 |
$38 |
March |
60 |
$1.25 |
-$7500 |
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01/28/2004 |
Sell Put #3 |
$38 |
March |
60 |
$1.8 |
+$10800 |
+$3,300 |
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01/16/2004 |
Buy Put #4 |
$38 |
March |
60 |
$1.15 |
-$6900 |
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01/28/2004 |
Sell Put #4 |
$38 |
March |
60 |
$1.8 |
+$10800 |
+$3,900 |
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01/29/2004 |
Buy Call #1 |
$37 |
March |
100 |
$1.3 |
-$13000 |
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Total: |
+$7,200
(+50.0%) |
To see
any of our past best trades, simply select from
the list below.
|
Date |
Indicator |
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September 25, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 18, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 10, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 9, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 7, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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September 2, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 31, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 19, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 18, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 15, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 5, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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August 3, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 31 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 21, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 14, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 13, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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July 1, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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June 23, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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June 20, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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June 6, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 30, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 25, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 20, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 16, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 12, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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May 09, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 29,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 22,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 18,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 10,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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April 6, 2004 |
S&P 500
Options |
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March 28,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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March 14,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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March 7, 2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 29,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 22,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 15,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 8,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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February 1,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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January 25,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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January 18,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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January 12,
2004 |
QQQQ Options |
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