In August CBOE started trading their S&P 500® Range Options (ticker SRO). These options replicate a condor position on the SPX with a single transaction. According the CBOE these are call only condors, not iron condors. You can see the options chain for these if you go to the CBOE quote page and enter in SRO in the left side dialog box. Neither Schwab, …
The market stumble the end of last week dropped the Russell 2000 enough for Frank Roellinger’s Modified Davis Method to signal a 50% sell. That portion of the portfolio gained 17.6% since being opened 30-November-2012. This exit was foreshadowed in the Modified David Method-March 2014 Update. The other half of the portfolio, initiated in July 2009, is still long with a 57% open gain—market breadth has …
Update: On June 18, 2015 the CBOE announced that they would be discontinuing VXST futures and options. These products have not achieved significant volumes so this wasn’t a surprising outcome. As an alternative solution to the desire for options better tracking the VIX the CBOE has added weekly expirations of futures and options to the already hugely popular 30 day VIX futures. This approach has …
