Options Trading Profit Statements

In January of 2009, I opened a real thinkorswim.com account to demonstrate trading one unit of the strategy. This is not a paper trading account. It is a real account, trading real money. I traded this extra account for one year.

NOTE: The demo account was setup to demonstrate trading ONLY one unit of the strategy with the indicated set aside in each month. The $30k balance is simply the balance of the idle account that was transferred to thinkorswim to setup the demo account. There was no intention to trade the full amount in this account.

January 2009: 4.34%

$217.00 on $5,000 set aside
Original Strategy

February 2009: 5.32%

$266.00 on $5,000 set aside
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March 2009: 5.22%

$260.83 on $5,000 set aside
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April 2009: 4.40%

$263.84 on $6,000 set aside
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May 2009: 4.12%

$246.96 on $6,000 set aside
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June 2009: 6.00%

$360.00 on $6,000 set aside
Original Strategy

NOTE: For the June 2009 trade, I was on vacation and did not trade the demo account. The results for this month were derived from the median of the fill prices that a number of students gave me.

July 2009: 0.77%

$46.40 on $6,000 set aside
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