Unfortunately this is going to be short and to the point today. For one reason being that we only made three standard high/low traders for the entire day’s trading. And, more importantly, we somehow seem to have lost or erased the screenshots for all the trade charts for our traded underlying assets. Even worse, we waited an entire extra day to write and publish our Binary Options Trading for Friday. Our lack of a photographic memory (or much of a short-term memory at all for that matter) means that we can only remember the barest of details behind the trades made. All we can do then is our best, and that will have to be good enough for today’s journal entry.

That good old standby, the S&P500 Index is far and away our preferred proxy for overall market conditions in the US, and to some degree even the other major global indices. Here we have once again reached new all-time highs for the index, finishing at just over 1,900 for the first time in history. It did not, however, even remotely break that level with any degree of confidence or commitment. Indeed, it actually ended the day at the closing bell in the midst of a pullback, however small. Now nobody though that breaking that nice, round 1900 level was going to  be easy. Especially after the amazing bull run we’ve already had over the last couple years. After all, this pace cannot last forever, and markets must at some point experience a rather devastating correction (given the large magnitude of the run-up).

With all of the above said, we personally will be moving into a decidedly bearish stance as markets move into next week’s action. We’re just not convinced that the “big money” that moves these markets is quite ready to push all-in on breaking that 1900 mark quite yet. We believe that they, like ourselves, remain in a fairly cautious mode, waiting for US and Global markets, as well as their trusted political economy interpreters/advisors to provide them with more information about where we might be going from here. It is in many ways a completely different economic and global financial situation which we currently find ourselves in, and there are no easy answers. We’re essentially flying blind here, regardless of what your politicians or talking heads may be saying to the contrary.

Binary Options Trading Summaries For Friday 5/23/2014

Well, not much to say here. Which is, of course, why we populated much of this entry with general market commentary and analysis. But, we did make a few trades on our Boss Capital account, and even though we don’t have chart images, or remember much of the rational for the trades at the time, we do have the outcomes and daily totals. So, let’s get to it shall we?

We only made a total of three trades today, all of them of the standard high/low Binary Options variety, and all of them for the same investment amount of $100 even. The one other thing which all three trades had in common? Well, they all finished ITM by expiry for triple profitability. Can’t complain about that. And it’s one of the reasons we just called it a day at that and moved on to other things besides trading. Oh yes, they were also all short-run bullish index plays on the three biggest US indices. Let’s take a closer look now (sorry the image came out a bit light and hard to see).

Binary Options Trading Summary For 5/23/2014

Even though we don’t have charts and pre-trade analysis for these trades we will still just break them each down and work that into our totals and ROI numbers for the day. It will be short and sweet today.

DOW Jones High/Low Call Option Trade Summary

Trade Outcome: ITM
Entry Time / Expiry: 10:49:11 / 13:00:00 (in PST time)
Investment: $100.00
Returns Offered: 75%
Entry Rate / Expiry Rate: 16,597.65 / 16,606.75
Returns Received: $175.00
Profit/Loss:  +$75.00 Profit

S&P500 Futures High/Low Call Option Trade Summary

Trade Outcome: ITM
Entry Time / Expiry: 10:49:25 / 12:00:00 (in PST time)
Investment: $100.00
Returns Offered: 75%
Entry Rate / Expiry Rate: 1,896.875 / 1,897.375
Returns Received: $175.00
Profit/Loss:  +$75.00 Profit

NASDAQ 100 Futures High/Low Call Option Trade Summary

Trade Outcome: ITM
Entry Time / Expiry: 10:49:37 / 11:00:00 (in PST time)
Investment: $100.00
Returns Offered: 80%
Entry Rate / Expiry Rate: 3,668.125 / 3,668.625
Returns Received: $180.00
Profit/Loss:  +$80.00 Profit

Binary Options Trading Investment Totals 5/23/2014

Total Trades Entered: Three (3) Standard High/Low
High/Low Trade Outcomes: Three (3) ITM
Total Investments: $300.00
Total Returns Received: $530.00
Total Daily Profit/Loss: +$230.00 Daily Profit
Daily ROI: +76.67% Daily Net ROI

A 76.67% daily return on investment is certainly nothing to be ashamed of I’d say. Indeed, I felt it best not to press my luck at this point and called a $230 profit for 10 minutes work a fair days wages for a fair days work, so to speak. We regret that we haven’t been able to trade much lately, much less record and publish what little trading we can get away with these days. We are, however, working on at least improving that situation, if not necessarily getting back to a daily publishing schedule.

Well, until next time folks, trade smart and be lucky!