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Ricardo Sáenz de Heredia launched his first trade in his Premium Alerts service on Thursday. One of the three types of trades Ricardo sends to his subscribers are a weekly trade. This week's trade is already in the black.

Trade Entry

Ricardo sold an Iron Condor on the RUT for $6.45 and at the close on Friday, it is trading for $4.82. Ricardo already has a $163 profit per spread. That would pay for his monthly subscription already!

The Greeks

The option Greeks are:

Delta -25.15
Gamma -3.48
Theta 158.2
Vega -144.9

Plugging these values in the Brian Johnson's spreadsheet (you can get the spreadsheet by purchasing Brian's book here), we see these numbers:

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These are reasonable values for DTRRR and VTRRR. Dan Harvey likes a DTRRR of 2.0 or less so we're close to Dan's more conservative ratios. The high theta helps keep the ratios under control.

These trades typically come off on Tuesday I believe. You have a bit less market exposure than traditional monthly trades and you have four times the number of trading cycles so you can recoup losses faster.

Summary

While I wouldn't want my entire portfolio in this trade, it is fantastic for diversification. The current trade has an 89% probability of being profitable on Tuesday.

Weekly options that Ricardo trades are very good performers that can easily justify the cost of a subscription to Ricardo's Premium Alerts. I put a 2 lot on myself a bit later than Ricardo and I'm up +$184 in less than one day. Subscription paid for the month!