I’m back into USO after selling my shares and buying back my 24-September S33 calls last Friday for a net credit of $32.97 per share. Bought USO this morning at 33.01, sold-to-open S33 calls at $0.44. Breakeven is 32.57, maximum profit is $0.43 per share. Best case this is a 1.3% return for a 5 day investment.
Some people have been hyperventilating about the high short interest many ETFs are showing. XRT for example recently had 95 million shares in short interest with only 17 million shares in shares outstanding. If you want a detailed response to these fearmongers I found this article to be very helpful. If all of the people that were short XRT decided that they wanted …
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The surprising day-to-day correlation between SPY in 2004 and SPY in 2010 continues. The 21-September closing values were 112.96 (2004), and 113.98 (2010)—not exactly a rousing endorsement of buy-and-hold strategies. This year’s SPY has traded below the old SPY line since mid August, but it just crossed over, challenging the top 2004 trendline (see below). It appears that the scary months of September and …
You can find Barclays’ VXX prospectus here. The prospectus covers both the short term VXX, and the medium term VXZ. This post discusses going long on VXX. This post discusses some choices if you think VXX is going to go down. For an estimated date for VXX’s next reverse split see this post. For an overview of how VXX works, see “How Does VXX Work?” …
