Are we at the bottom yet?

After several sell-off days with low volume, the buyers seem to be coming back.  I bought SPY at 105.22, sold 27-Aug 106 calls at 0.58. Breakeven is 104.64. Maximum profit is $1.36 per share. Livevol shows the 27-Aug 106 IV’s at 28 and the 18-Sept monthly IV for the 106 calls at 24.  Right now, Livevol’s IV numbers are the only ones I believe for …

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Six hours to go

Update Well, I was clearly wrong about people not being in panicky mood.   Around 10:30 EST the market decided to take another leg down and the VIX did spike up quite a bit.   Later in the day the market rallied back to around the point I created this position.    I bailed out of my position less than an hour after I created it, …

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Two days to go

I’ve been staying out of the market (except for USO), because I think the possibility of a pullback is fairly high.    However, with two days to go on the SPY Weekly 6-August options (which are showing IVs in the 30s)  things started looking attractive.   I created an ITM covered call position, buying SPY at 112.45 and selling 111 strike calls at 1.84.   …

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