I) Long one future contract:
For buying long future position, I bought 10 Construct Timber contracts for May 18 for $519.00. I bought this contract because, based on the statistics from stock-trak, I thought that the price will continue to go up. Overall, I made no profit, which is $0 (based on I calculate like this: 10*110,000($0-$0)).
II) Short one future contract:
For short future contract, I sell twelve crude oil contracts for $61.77. I short it because I saw that the price for this position starting to drop. I figure that it will be a good time for me to sell it before I lose money. As a reward, I made $4,320 for selling it.
III) Long mutual fund and hedge with one mini S&P index future contract:
I collected weekly FDGRX mutual prices and S&P prices. I regressed weekly FDGRX mutual fund continuous weekly return against the S&P continuous weekly return. The explanatory variable coefficient, which is beta, is 1.81633. On February 28, 2018 I bought 393 mutual fund contracts for $192.82. During that day, I sell S&P E-mini 500 contract for $2,751.75. On April 14, 2018 I saw that both of their prices are going down. At this time, I decided to hedge both of these positions by selling Fidelity Growth Co Fund and S&P E-mini 500. For selling S&P I gain $4,700 while I have a loss of $809.58 for FDGRX. Overall, I get $3,890.42 net profit for shorting both of these positions. If I have not hedge both of them I would have a loss of $809.58 because I let the price for FDGRX continue to go down and S&P mini 500 price hits zero. Between these two strategies hedging will be my best option.
IV Long one Call option:
I bought Best Buy Co. as a call option for $2.24. When I do some research about this corporation stock price, I assume the price will go up. However, my prediction is wrong when its stock price drop to zero on April 14. So I loss $2.24 with -100% of return. If I short it, I will gain about $2.24.
V) Long one put option:
I bought AT&T Inc. as long put option position. I long this option since I assume that its stock price to go above strike price. I also bought it because I expect this corporation to be well-known that they are capable to make a lot of profit. On March 12, 2018 I sell five option contracts on AT&T for $0.64. By the time the price reach to $1.33 I decided to make this position a long call option. As a result, I make $9.85 profit with 108% of the return I earned. If I remain short call position, I would probably have a loss.
VII) Long one stock 100shares and write a call option on this stock with K higher than stock price:
On April 2, 2018 I bought Advanced Micro Device Inc. stock at $9.96 for 100 shares. I believe that this stock price will continue to grow, so it made me decide to invest this company. At the same time I sell this stock as a call option for ten shares. Overall, I have a loss of $996.10 with a loss of 100% return.