Just one more Cough...and we will hit $30,000 !!!
Hi mate! You're confusing your cash balance with your account value again!
Did you notice that your cash went up when you rolled your EUR call strikes from the June to the October?
That's because you sold more options!
When you sell options, you receive the premium, and that makes your Cash Available go up. But on the other side of the ledger, you're now short more options. The market value of those options is equal to (in fact, usually greater than) the premium you receive.
I took the liberty of copying a couple of your portfolio screenshots to show you what's happening. The top one is from Monday morning; the bottom one is from Tuesday morning.
You were short EUR 130k of the Jun 3rd 1.16(ish) EURUSD calls (your screenshot doesn't show the exact strikes you're short, so I had to price them up, but I think I'm within about 50 pips). Those were valued at about $200 USD.
You bought those back, and sold EUR 150k of the 23rd Oct 1.16(ish) calls (again, I had to price it up to check, but the premiums look right). Those are valued at $2000-ish USD.
Very roughly, you sold the 23rd Oct and earned $2000, but you paid $200 of that to buy back the 3rd Jun. Net-net, you earned $1800 - but
you also have a $1,800 greater liability, because you're short a larger amount of longer-dated options. (It looks like you sold another EUR 20k notional of the 1.13 EURUSD puts, which is where the extra $200 of premium came from. Again: $200 more cash, but $200 more liabilities as well.)
Your account value was almost unchanged - in fact, you lost four dollars - because you have more cash but also more liabilities from the options. Your cash balance went up by $2,000, but your liabilities increased by $2,000 as well, so you haven't actually made any profit on that trade.
When the options come closer to expiry and decay in value, then you'll see your account value go up. But you haven't made any money
today - you've just taken more risk.
Does that make sense?
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MrPippen, this guy is being misleading; don't let yourself be fooled. The number that matters is his Account Value.
If he wanted to, he could make his Cash Available basically any number he wanted by selling enough options of the right strike and tenor. For example, for each extra EUR 100k of the 23-Oct 1.13 EURUSD puts he sells, his Cash Available will go up by about $3,000. But that's not profit; that's extra risk he's taking on, and you can tell it's extra risk because his Account Value doesn't change.
I'm not saying he's trying to fool you, but he's fooling himself. He thinks that a higher Cash Available means he's actually made a profit.
He's certainly made money, but he hasn't made anywhere near $30,000. He has $30k of cash in his account, but against that he has a liability of over $15,000.