Today the ZEGA traders put money back to work in the HiPOS Conservative version of the strategy. With volatility remaining elevated and the S&P 500 Index continued weakness, they found a put side trade that qualified under our strict rules for entry.
This week Jay Pestrichelli and Derek Moore are back to discuss whether Bitcoin or Gold are good hedges. What the appeal of cryptocurrencies are? How just being long the market while have a hedged floor in the portfolio allows investors to be in the historically best inflation adjusted return asset.
With only 5 full trading days left until expiration Friday morning February 19th, the S&P 500 Index has continued its march higher. This is positive for the HiPOS Conservative trade in a few ways. First, the index has stayed well above...
The Wall Street Bets community executed a short squeeze through Reddit on stocks like GameStop and AMC Theatres this week. But what is a short squeeze? How did they and others buying stocks and options cause the stock to go up at least in the short term?
We wanted to post a quick update on our HIPOS Conservative strategy as the ZEGA trading team put on a new short put spread.
In the HiPOS Conservative strategy this week, marks the end of the current trade with Friday’s expiration. Looking at the graph above we can see that this iteration never really was threatened.