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Senior Options Trading Strategist at Optionity, MBA. Our trading approach starts with the fundamentals, then through short-term technical analysis, to finally leverage options trading (with the combination of long and short positions) to achieve favorable risk and reward ratio trading plays. Our... More
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  • Optionity Core-20 Options Portfolio 01/31/2013 0 comments
    Jan 31, 2013 6:59 PM | about stocks: AXP, CHL, CSCO, F, GE, INTC, KO, MDLZ, MMM, MSFT, ORCL, PEP, PFE, QCOM, SYY, TEVA, TSM, UTX, VOD, WM

    Optionity Core-20 Options Portfolio (Credit Put Strategy)

    Stock criteria:

    • Large Cap with low beta
    • Fair/Under-valued
    • Consistent, strong earnings
    • Dividend distribution
    • High liquidity, large volume
    • Good/strong economic moat

    This options portfolio consists of 20 core stocks. The portfolio will employee mainly the credit put strategy with the primary objective of generating consistent cash flow. The portfolio focuses on 1) sufficient sector diversification 2) risk/reward ratio control 3) margin of safety by leveraging options.

    Daily portfolio performance will be updated at Seeking Alpha Instablog and Optionity.com.

    Transaction details will be updated whenever new position is opened or the existing position is closed/expired/adjusted.

    Pending transaction(s) to be setup:

    Click Here for detail

    Options Market Recap

    Thursday's market sentiment was driven by extreme greed with Fear & Greed Index at 86, which had decreased from the previous close of 92. As reported by CBOE, the total put/call ratio was 0.91 for the day. The index put/call ratio was 0.74, and the equity put/call ratio was 0.73. The CBOE volatility index (VIX) put/call ratio was 0.34.

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    Themes: options portfolio, core-20, credit put strategy, daily performance Stocks: AXP, CHL, CSCO, F, GE, INTC, KO, MDLZ, MMM, MSFT, ORCL, PEP, PFE, QCOM, SYY, TEVA, TSM, UTX, VOD, WM
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