Tuesday, June 5, 2018

A Better Job Report 6-1-18

The NFP reported a better than expected (190K v.s 223K) job growth. The unemployment rate is down to 3.8%.  The market responded to the news well. It recovered the losses of yesterday plus more. QQQ gained the most today. It may be heading to all-time high following the small caps. The trade tension is on the back burner for now.

Made 13 trades today. My two ITM bull puts are out now. I bought them back and sold a set of put spreads to offset the cost. I was lucky to exit my QQQ short call of 172 before it got in the money and exit my clients' SPY 274 short calls 4 cents away from touching it. Overall, it played out well today.

Net liq went below 120K with 1K decrease as the market popping up. Margin ratio is at 58% but it will reduce over the weekend. I will fix it next Monday.

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