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Trade Alert - (FXE) Calls
Expiration of Sell the Currency Shares Euro Trust (FXE) May, 2012 $132 Calls at zero
Closing Trade
5-18-2012
expiration date: May 18, 2012
Portfolio weighting: 20% = 50 Contracts
The collapse of the Euro caused by the latest political crisis in Europe allowed our short position in the Currency Shares Euro Trust (FXE) May, 2012 $132 Calls to expire worthless. This was the easiest trade of the year. To me, the outcome of the French presidential election, and its broader geopolitical implications, was a no brainer months ago. It allowed us to mitigate the modest losses we saw in the offsetting short position in the May, $127 puts. It also cancelled out the time decay that kicked in on our long position in the June $130 puts. So it performed as expected.
The profit on the trade amounts to (50 X 100 X $0.19) = $950, or 0.95% for the model $100,000 portfolio. The position should disappear from you statement on Monday and the Margin freed up.
