For many years we’ve given updates on our HiPOS Conservative and referred to it as our “Main HiPOS Trade”. However, with the recent surge in adoption of the HiPOS Aggressive strategy we felt it was time to add it to our HiPOS updates. For clients new to HiPOS Aggressive...
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In day two of this selloff in markets, volatility surged giving us an opportunity to add a short put spread to our existing short call spread trade in our primary HiPOS Conservative Strategy. Those who have been in the strategy will recognize this total position as a short iron condor trade.
After Friday’s successful expiration, the market has given us another opportunity to sell calls on the S&P 500 Index. This is the 3rd consecutive call spread placed in our HiPOS Conservative strategy; and that is unusual.
Today is expiration day for our primary HiPOS Conservative trade. The position will expire worthless at the close of the market today (Friday) which results in a full profit realized. As sellers of premium, we take in a credit and want the positions to eventually go to zero