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[CLOSED] – Aggressive Rollover Spread Sale in SPX

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I put this on because when we have volatility pivots like we did on Monday, they rarely are one off events. And after the S&P has retraced over 50% of the ugly bar from Monday, now is a good risk/reward setup to sell some call spreads.

Here’s the trade:

Sell to open HALF SIZE SPX Jul2 2120/2125 Call Spread for 1.00

ADD to the trade at 1.60

CLOSE at 0.30

BAIL on close above 2120

For the Interactive Brokers people out there…

Short SPXW150710C2120
Long SPXW150710C2125

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This is an AGGRESSIVE trade because we have CATALYST RISK going into the weekend with the Greek referendum. But I believe that it’s a high odds trade to have the open from Monday hold as a key resistance level.

Update: July 6th, 2015

The gap down really helped the trade, and the spread is nearly worthless now.

Buy to close SPX Jul2 2120/2125 Bear Call Spread @0.10

Margin and P/L

Margin: 400

Enter at 1.00, Exit at 0.10

P/L 90

RoR 22.5%

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