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The M3 Trading SystemPart 3 August 2011 Market Crash September

Expiration

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Trade Size: 1 RUT or 10 IWM Calls

Butterfly Call Ratio: 10 Butterflies to 1 RUT Call (1/1 ratio)

Planned Capital - $50,000

Profit Target - $5,000 Max Loss - $5,000

Reduce Profit Target – in event B/C ratio is altered

September 2011Risk Management and Profit Targets

We are going to sell put verticals rather than buy call verticals to adjust the position.

The moves are synthetically the same but have different margin requirements.

In this example….

Entry Position Price ChartSeptember Expiration 2011

Entry PositionSeptember 2011Expiration

Entry Position for September 2011Expiration on July 22

5 Days Later – July 27, 2011

July 27, 2011

July 27, 2011

Down side risk could be corrected by selling the call

Down side risk could be corrected buy buying a put

A safer, higher probability approach would be to roll back the butterflies

Buy 780 butterflies Sell 820 butterflies

New PositionUpside still looks great!

6 Days LaterAugust 2 – 45 DTE

August 2 – 45 DTE

We have the same conditions as before but this time the market is at support and “likely?” to hold.

Do we want to hold this position?

Major support or resistance levels are where the most violent and unpredictable moves commonly occur.

Having too much risk under these conditions is likely to force an adjustment to, or exit of, the position in very unfavorable conditions.

Trading in unfavorable conditions creates situations where we are likely to get in trouble and take greater than expected losses.

We want to avoid putting ourselves in situations that may force us to trade in unfavorable conditions.

NO! We never want to take on excessive risk just because the market is at a support or

resistance level!

Buy 750 ButterfliesSell 780 Butterflies

We have corrected downside risk and taken money out of the trade

2 Days LaterAugust 4 – 43 DTE

Again Greeks are fine but we have other things to consider

We are pushing the downside AGAIN!

Buy 710 ButterfliesSell 750 Butterflies

This looks fine but…..If we want to do a minor adjustment to help with a sudden

reversal we can roll back our long call to a higher Delta

Sell 750 CallBuy 700 Call

New Position

4 Days LaterAugust 8 – 39 DTE

This day was the largest single day move in the history of RUT (almost 64 points!)

Here we go again!

Buy 650 Butterflies - Sell 710 ButterfliesSell 700 Call - Buy 660 Call

New PositionWe can literally take RUT to 0 doing this…

Assuming we are far enough from expiration

After a hard sell off… You always get a hard bounce!

7 Days Later August 15 - 32 DTE

Positive Vega is a “hidden risk”

Adding a vertical spread puts the Greeks within range but we must verify with the

analyze graph

Taking the current market environment into consideration, I would consider this a little

too much downside risk.

Let’s try rolling up some of the butterflies

This is much better

7 Days LaterAugust 22 – 25 DTE

Position Greeks look great!

Analyze graph looks goodWe do nothing

7 Days Later August 29 – 18 DTE

Vega has gone positive

T+0 “looks” ok but….

Buy 5 650 putsSell 5 670 puts

New Position

Next DayAugust 30 – 17 DTE

Once again we are concerned with Vega risk

Buy 5 670 butterfliesSell 5 650 butterflies

New Position

8 Days LaterSeptember 7 – 9 DTE

Because we are getting very close to expiration, the position is becoming

increasingly sensitive to price movement

We are also at a point where we run into Vega and Theta problems closer and closer to the

tent.

Buy 10 670 putsSell 10 680 puts

New Position

2 Days LaterSeptember 9 – 7 DTE

The market is really swinging around and more frequent adjustments are needed this close to

expiration, under these conditions, we should seriously consider exiting the trade.

A very hard down move with an IV increase would be a big problem

Buy 10 650 ButterfliesSell 10 670 Butterflies

This is much better, but if you are still concerned…..

Buy 10 560 Puts

Now the overnight/weekend risk of taking a much larger than planned loss is very remote

Corrects Gamma trend and acts as a

volatility hedge

3 Days LaterSeptember 12 – 4 DTE

Profit target is exceeded and trade should be closed since it is 4 DTE but I will bring you

into expiration

Position looks great

Next Day – up 18 points September 13 - 3 DTE

Delta is way too highGamma does not trend positive fast enough

Buy 5 680 PutsSell 5 700 Puts

(To Remove Upside Risk)

New Position

Next DaySeptember 14 – 2 DTE

Large up move puts position negative Theta and positive Vega

Even though things went against us, we are still OK

If we want to stay in the position, we need to take on a little more risk but not much

A little fine tuning

Probably the best low risk non-directional position we can create at

this point

Last day of trading!

Do we want to expire the position?

What a crazy ride!

Shift from a low volatility to an extreme high volatility environment

Nearly 200 point drop in 11 days

Followed by a choppy range of over 80 points

Position was checked only 1 time per day

Position was never down a significant amount of money

Never took excessive risk in either direction

This win did not hinge on exact timing of adjustments nor speculating on a market direction!

This example went through…

We entered this trade in a relatively low volatility environment. The market went into dramatic sell off which created a large volatility increase in the beginning of the trade.

We kept choosing to roll our butterflies back rather than removing calls or adding puts because removing calls would create excessive upside Gamma trend risk and adding puts would likely create losses if the market did anything except continue to sell off aggressively. We discussed how adding puts would have been a better choice than removing calls. You should be aware however that using puts may have required timing the market somewhat to avoid a loss.

When the market finally bottomed and the price reversed violently to the upside, as is to be expected after an aggressive sell off, we chose to roll up ½ of the butterflies to control Vega risk rather than to add vertical spreads as adding verticals did not produce the result we wanted with the t+0 line.

Summary

Later on with the continued up move, we rolled the remainder of the position and then were able to utilize verticals to control Vega risk.

The market then sold off once again and we rolled back the butterflies to control downside risk.

Finally as we took the trade into expiration week and the position became more sensitive to price movement, we utilized puts to help protect our account from an excessive loss because, close to expiration, you can purchase puts to control your risk fairly inexpensively.

The price reversed on us once again and we bought an OTM put spread to remove upside risk and protect profits should a continued up move occur.

Summary

Finally we sold off our call 2 DTE and repositioned the puts to raise our expiration graph near the current price of RUT and create a low risk way to make more profit should the market cooperate.

Notice how we didn’t just look at our Greeks to decide when and how to adjust our position, we also looked at the analyze graph to analyze our Greek trends and we also considered recent price movement, IV levels and DTE to decide the best move to deal with unacceptable risk without taking on excessive risk in the opposite direction.

Summary

Review Trade Set Up

Review Trade Entry

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