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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by AdamA » Thu Jan 14, 2016 7:16 am

var wrote: i back tested the spy and tlt 50/50 strategy with the simba spreadsheet... and it looks decent...
With options???
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by var » Thu Jan 14, 2016 8:22 am

no just the looking at the mutual fund returns themselves..

with options no... will see if the opportunity presents its self i might jump in...
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by sk55 » Wed Feb 03, 2016 12:41 pm

AdamA wrote:
var wrote: i back tested the spy and tlt 50/50 strategy with the simba spreadsheet... and it looks decent...
With options???

adam

how are you long bond leaps doing?
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by AdamA » Sat Feb 06, 2016 3:36 pm

GLD position is up 56%
TLT position is up 49%
SPY position is down 49%

Altogether it's up around 19% for the year so far.
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by JayT » Tue Feb 16, 2016 5:27 pm

Adam, my apologies if you've mentioned this already, but where do you track your LEAPS PP performance?

I have a LEAPS PP and I am tracking it in Yahoo! Finance Portfolios.  It is very inaccurate though, since the portfolio takes the last traded price (and not the current bid or ask price) and the last price could be very different from current price.
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by var » Tue Feb 23, 2016 6:36 pm

prob the best way to do it set up ameritrade account...

then enable paper trading with think or swim... (quotes are delayed, unless you have enough cash in ur trading account)

thinkorswim got the best interface for options.
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by JayT » Wed Feb 24, 2016 6:56 pm

var wrote: prob the best way to do it set up ameritrade account...
Var, thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately that's not an option for me right now, so I will stick with Y! for a while.  Since it's only 3 calls I can also calculate returns manually once in a while.
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by AdamA » Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:08 pm

Here are the 2016 results:

12/30/15

TLT 7 Jan 2018 Calls $5544
SPY 3 Jan 2018 Calls $5251
GLD 5 Jan 2018 Calls $5488


1/3/2016

TLT $3616 -35%
SPY $7135 +36%
GLD $6347 +16%


Start Finish
$16,283 $17,098


Total $815 (gross 5%) *.15% (capital gains) = $693 (net 4.3%)


At one point this year the portfolio was up over 100%, when both gold and bonds more than doubled. Started to dip around August, and then really tanked after the election. Still had small gain though.

2013 2.7%
2014 62%
2015 -58%
2016 4.2%
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by Kbg » Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:17 pm

I enjoy these updates. Thanks for posting them!
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by buddtholomew » Thu Jan 05, 2017 1:36 pm

AdamA wrote:Here are the 2016 results:

12/30/15

TLT 7 Jan 2018 Calls $5544
SPY 3 Jan 2018 Calls $5251
GLD 5 Jan 2018 Calls $5488


1/3/2016

TLT $3616 -35%
SPY $7135 +36%
GLD $6347 +16%


Start Finish
$16,283 $17,098


Total $815 (gross 5%) *.15% (capital gains) = $693 (net 4.3%)


At one point this year the portfolio was up over 100%, when both gold and bonds more than doubled. Started to dip around August, and then really tanked after the election. Still had small gain though.

2013 2.7%
2014 62%
2015 -58%
2016 4.2%
Hey AdamA, what are you learning from your results?
Sorry, haven't kept up with this thread for a while.
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Re: LEAPS PP

Post by AdamA » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:10 pm

buddtholomew wrote:

Hey AdamA, what are you learning from your results?
Sorry, haven't kept up with this thread for a while.
That the assets are volatile. ;)
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