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Published: Mon 30 March 2020
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<p>In <a href="https://www.stevehemingway.com/category/markets.html">markets</a>.</p>
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<p>Emergency rate cut by the Fed again, 50bp, down to 25bp. Smells of desperation.</p>
<p>Lost some money on <span class="caps">UB</span> but panned out.</p>
<p>Trades:</p>
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<p><span class="caps">ESTX50</span>, <span class="caps">FTMIB</span>, N225, K200, Z</p>
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<p>All sales, all futures.</p>
<p>Options markets now getting very illiquid. No quotes in <span class="caps">OOM</span> puts in most things including <span class="caps">SX7P</span>, the Euro banks index.</p>
<p>Bought a 3000 strike gold option, a year out. $400 premium. 20% <span class="caps">IV</span>. Well, placed the order!</p>
<p>Trade (11:25):</p>
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<p><span class="caps">BTP</span>.</p>
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<p>This pushes margin req’mt to $436K.</p>
<h2>12:23</h2>
<p>In this game, one learns all about liquidity and opportunity costs. Now find that there are no out of the money puts to be bought for love nor money. Thank goodness I bought some on <span class="caps">TSLA</span>. I now feel so confident about making money on this stock … well, by shorting it, anyhow. This is probably the time to wind down my position. The twin emotions of fear and greed facing me at this juncture, as always.</p>
<p>12:54 sold <span class="caps">HG</span>. 1 Fut.</p>
<h2>18:15</h2>
<p>Absolute mass of closeouts and trades.</p>
<h3>Closes:</h3>
<p>Big wins: <span class="caps">TSLA</span> puts, <span class="caps">HYG</span> puts, <span class="caps">EMB</span> puts, <span class="caps">EWT</span> puts,</p>
<p>Stops: <span class="caps">ESTX50</span>, <span class="caps">UB</span>.</p>
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<p>Basically, a list of futures, and shorting <span class="caps">UB</span>. Bought some more further out of the money puts.</p>
<p>It is now very difficult to buy out of the money puts on single name <span class="caps">US</span> stocks, country ETFs and euro sector indices.</p>
<p>It feels as though the market is gradually losing liquidity. Presumably, all the margin calls are in and there fewer and fewer forced sellers.</p>
<p>The good thing is that the hitting of limit orders on <span class="caps">RUT</span> and <span class="caps">TSLA</span> puts has dramatically reduced the margin req., down from ~$435K to now $358K. I did buy some more puts with the extra “buying power” generated but at some point the market is possibly going to spring back. <span class="caps">SPX</span> has lost around one third of its value from the <span class="caps">ATH</span> a month ago.</p>
<h3>19:19</h3>
<p>Decided to buy some puts on <span class="caps">LQD</span> - investment grade <span class="caps">ETF</span>. Bonds are the next frontier. Govt. bonds still going up, high yield down. Where will high quality corp. credit go? Down, I’m guessing. Obviously.</p>
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<p>Finished the day something like $280K up. A great day! This is the point of maximum danger. My good luck is lulling me into the delusion that I have perfect foresight. This will make me take more risks which will end up with me losing everything. God give me strength to resist temptation and not stray from the path of righteousness and tight risk controls.</p>
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