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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Turning $10K to $50K by Jan 21st – Update 1 (Members Only)

What an exciting 6 weeks these trades have had!

The most important thing to take away from these hedged play reviews is how important it is NOT TO TOUCH THEM.  We orginated this group on June 11th and the Dow was at 10,200 and it ran up to 10,600 and down to 9,600 and is now back to 10,400.  We could have made some good adjustments and we could have made some bad adjustments but the best move is to do nothing with long-term, hedged positions while the market gyrates UNLESS something fundamentally changes in your outlook.

The VIX was at 30 back then and that, in part, determines the nature of the plays we take.  The higher the VIX, the more we want to sell premium as we simply profit from the declining VIX (now 23.5).  The idea of these picks was to find $10,000 worth of small plays that we thought could gain 500% by Jan 21st as part of a larger virtual portfolio.  If you can do this with just 10% of a $100K virtual portfolio or 5% of a $200K virtual portfolio, that's plenty of risk for these uncertain times and it's a nice 25-50% bonus on the entire virtual portfolio if it works out.  Risk can be a component of a conservative virtual portfolio if we wall it off safely.

Our first play was a fundamentals play on YRCW, assuming they wouldn't go bankrupt.  10,000 shares at .21 was the original entry ($2,100) and I called an audible on this one on 7/7 to add 2x at .11 rather than stop out.  That brought the net down to 0.143 on 30,000 or $4,290 so a bit more than a DD overall and we took 1/2 off the table this week at .29 ($5,850), turning this one into a free play ($1,560 profits in pocket) with 15,000 shares to ride out for our hopeful $1 target. 

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