Cashing Out Of FXE
Cashing Out Of FXE
Biden’s confirmation of Janet Yellen as the Fed chairwoman 2.0 pretty much sealed the fate of the U.S. Dollar and I expect it to be renamed the ‘U.S. Weimar’ just before its replacement by monopoly money which it appears to be more resilient against haphazard inflation. But to be honest a crashing Dollar is par for the course for a nation that is incapable of holding a presidential election without certified results over one month later.
The 90 mark is straight in sight but given the current trend we could quickly see ourselves at the 85 mark. Not a fun prospect for this expat, I gotta tell ya.
Everyone seems to love love love a weak Dollar – and tell their friends about it at parties – until they realize that selling your house for double the purchase price doesn’t really matter as all the other houses you would want to buy have doubled in price as well.
So unless you still are in the business of flipping houses for a living the ‘profit’ you may claim is an illusion as the purchasing power of the currency it’s denominated in is systematically being destroyed.
Here’s the Euro which is now going gangbusters as everyone and their uncle are expecting to the Euro to become the next reserve currency.
Which is tantamount to jumping from the fire into the frying pan but I have long given up on trying to make sense out of tidal waves in investor sentiment.
Incidentally this is the chart I emailed everyone on Tuesday in a special update. A few subs wrote me love letters over the past two days, so I guess I earned my keep for the remainder of the month 😉
Anyway, I should not complain about the Dollar as I was well hedged against this very scenario via my notorious hammock options strategy (i.e. a double backratio but its composition varies based on IV). A course on that is in the works.
That’s a 4R return and I am happily cashing out today while the getting is still good. Could it pop much higher? Sure it could but over the years I learned when to cash in my chips and call it a day.
Equities meanwhile – denominated in Dollars of course – are pumping higher into new all time highs. I would call it the ‘Biden Rally’ but since the outcome has not yet been officially certified yet let’s stick with ‘post election rally’ instead.
What continues to irk me however is that the ‘monsters of tech’ are NOT participating. And if you consider that tech, and the symbols in this composite symbol in particular, has been driving the entire 2020 bull market, then it casts some doubts on whether this rally has legs.
And then of course there’s the VX futures curve which remains in contango as shown last Wednesday.
In that post I made a point about falling IV and I would be amiss to not point out that we are still holding steady at lows we have not seen since early this year when all the COVID shenanigans began.
I consider this an awesome opportunity for placing medium term VIX back ratio spreads and if you’re a Gold or Zero sub then you already know why as it was explained in detail on Wednesday.
Time To Start Using Your Elbows!
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Most option traders already know how to create and place a butterfly spread as modern platforms like ThinkOrSwim make the basic mechanics fairly easy.
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Once you understand the basics of trading butterflies from a ‘probability of profitability’ perspective, and of course assuming you can get your head trash out of the way, this course will completely change the game for you.
And I’m not just pulling that out of my rear side – many years ago when I was taught these same concepts I never looked at the market the same way ever again. But at the same time none of the material covered is either brain surgery or rocket science.
Successful option trading basically boils down to this:
- Knowing not only the probability of success when sculpting your spreads but more importantly assessing your ‘probability of profitability’ which in fact defines your actual edge. This is a crucial concept you rarely hear about outside of professional trading circles and in this course I have devoted an entire chapter to this topic alone.
- Knowing when to get in, how to get in, and when and how to get out.
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Options and by extension option spreads like butterflies have risk and probability baked directly into them by default. There is no difference between perceived risk and the premium you see in front of you. This is a reality missed by most option traders who seem perplexed by the flood of information emanating from their trading platforms.
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Increased Market Efficiency
Since the introduction of additional weekly expirations in 2016 option markets have become extremely efficient and thus more predictable. Which makes trading options easier IF you know what you are doing, what to look for, and of course understand how price and risk are intimately correlated.
In this class, I cover a long laundry list of fundamental topics related to trading butterflies:
- Why ‘market manipulation’ is a myth but ‘market guidance’ is an integral part of our trading reality we can actually take advantage of. And I will show you how.
- How you may have been trading options for many years but probably have missed out on one of the most crucial concepts driving the options market – and by extension the equities market in the 21st century.
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- How to deconstruct a butterfly into its essential components and how to calculate max risk, max profit, as well as probability of success.
- Why you should mostly ignore risk graphs and how to instead more realistically project your butterfly’s earnings potential.
- Which option contracts to trade, and when to trade them.
- Why you should stay away from quarterly expirations and focus on weekly expirations instead.
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- How to pick a direction but at the same time why directional bias does not really matter.
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- Picking the right width for your butterfly and how.
- Why you may want to shift or widen your butterfly and when.
- How to adjust your butterfly to specific market cycles.
- Reduction in buying power vs. margin and why it matters.
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