Totally forgot to follow up on the SPY trendline break to the downside.  It definitely broke.  What would be most exciting now is if we can open down next week and then get the RSI2 bottom on SPY to flip long.

Great show of strength today for Tech Trader against the market sell off.  Tech Trader in total, even with yesterday's IWM buy, is only down 0.5%.  SPY is down over 2% and IWM is down almost 3%.  Shorts like GRUB (5%), ADI (7%), and GRMN (2%) contributed a lot to outperformance, but it's nonetheless 40% net long, meaning longs were pretty resilient as well.

What's interesting to note is that Tech Trader isn't buying the dip today; no bottom or RSI signals on the major indices.  There was one yesterday and a leftover from last week, but not the usual 3-5 cluster or more with aggressive averaging down.  Again, exposures are at year lows of 65% long vs 28% short.

The n/a sector is ETFs, which consists of EEM and IWM collectively being down about 2% individually but affect less than .3% of the portfolio and are offset everything else.  The most any individual name is losing the portfolio is no more than about .1% either.



Again, the sell off is barely a blip in Tech Trader's P&L while you can see SPY for the YTD time frame being very volatile.

Tech Trader starting to get longer again with the market sell off starting with IWM.  Things getting interesting after a boring few days.

Great example on GRUB of Tech Trader's option pricing algo at work.  Normally I would have just crossed the spread, but it now knows to aim for $.50 on a spread of $.45x$.70 based on how other contracts are priced.
Edit: Not trading this specific strike/contract.  Just wanted to show how TT would price a wide spread.  Sorry for the confusion.


In other news, XLP has exited around $50.20 for about a 1.2% total gain (QQQ had 2.4%, XLK 2.1%, and XLF 2%).  Still holding EEM which is taking a hit, but it's small compared to what the others made already.  Slow day overall.

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Just finished adding the ability for Tech Trader to automatically figure out fair value for options based on intrinsic/extrinsic of other contracts.  I'll never get ripped off by a 40% spread again! Bahaha

Tech Trader almost closed its QQQ and XLK longs from yesterday this morning, but that pullback in the first hour was enough to give it more runway.  Looks like the pattern has been selling from Europe market hours and then relief after.

Tech Trader's going for it here on this China yuan devaluation sell off.  Intraday bottoms on both XLF @ $24.7 and EEM @ $35.3.  Looking for another bounce here in the next few days.

Tech Trader crushed it with XLV and IBB after intraday bottom signals in each last week.

Tough morning for the IBB long yesterday, but that's why there was only one trade as opposed to a handful.  Tech Trader following up on that trade with another intraday bottom in XLV now, essentially the equivalent of a trader averaging down.

There goes TLT above $122 after yesterday's intraday bottom signal.

Pretty exciting.  After about 2 week's slumber, exposures are starting to pick up again.  TLT just got an intraday bottom at about $121.4.  Names like FOLD and SPR are lining up to be bought on breakout continuation to the long side.   Update: Lost the signal for FOLD at close and didn't trade it; looks like it's tough to sustain a breakout for individual names at least.