KVB Total Return Fund

**KVB** · 06-18-18, 03:45 PM

Not in along time but always looking to branch out.

I've been paying a little bit of attention.

**jjgold** · 06-18-18, 03:49 PM

There’s plenty of ways to reduce your size in futures specially if you’re trading the mini. grains, or the mini currency’s or micro gold

You can do call and put spreads with futures The liquid products and I think there’s about 10 that are very tight

You also can do straight out future calendars buying the front month selling back months or vice versa Which greatly reduces buying power and margin requirements

I probably forgot more than you know about financial markets and trading

**KVB** · 06-19-18, 12:10 PM

I submitted a limit order for 500 shares of HIMX @7.65.

It has not hit but is trading at 7.66.

**KVB** · 06-19-18, 12:15 PM

Bought 500 shares of HIMX at 7.65.

This fund now owns 1000 shares of HIMX, 500 at about 8.05 per share.

**KVB** · 06-27-18, 09:49 AM

I sold 1 Call to open C 7/20/18 @ 67.50.

**KVB** · 06-27-18, 09:52 AM

Originally posted by KVB

I sold 1 Call to open C 7/20/18 @ 67.50.

This generated $165.40 for the account.

The account also received $76.00 dividend GME.

**ChuckyTheGoat** · 06-27-18, 09:54 AM

Good luck, KV. What is your favorite stock that is likely to dole out year-end dividend?

**KVB** · 06-27-18, 09:58 AM

Thanks Chucky!

I really like MORT.

It's an ETF around Mortgage Reit income.

It's been solid and has a decent chart.

Dividend near 8%.

It's one of my favorites and fluctuates very little when the market is going nuts.

**ChuckyTheGoat** · 06-27-18, 10:18 AM

Thank you, KV.

I always like to pick up ideas that I can add to my portfolio.

**KVB** · 06-27-18, 12:12 PM

Originally posted by KVB

I sold 1 Call to open C 7/20/18 @ 67.50.

This was the 67.50 call and I forgot to put the price.

I sold it at 1.71.

I just bought 1 Call to close C 7/20/18 67.50 @ 1.18.

For a profit.

**KVB** · 06-27-18, 12:14 PM

I just sold 1 Call to Open C 7/20/18 67.00 @ 1.46.

This generated $140.40 for the account.

**KVB** · 06-29-18, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by KVB

I just sold 1 Call to Open C 7/20/18 67.00 @ 1.46.

This generated $140.40 for the account.

I bought 1 Call to Close C 7/20/18 67.00 @ 2.06.

This is a loss on the trade.

I sold 1 Call to Open C 7/20/18 69.00 @1.04.

I may be walking this the wrong way but I've changed my mind on my Citigroup exit point.

**RangeFinder** · 06-29-18, 08:11 PM

K you may want to put in for a put on the S&P

Maybe a January2019 put

**KVB** · 06-29-18, 08:47 PM

Originally posted by RangeFinder

K you may want to put in for a put on the S&P

Maybe a January2019 put

Hey Range, good to see you!

They are so expensive depending on strike price, but I see that bet brewing.

Could cost 9 or 10 grand but it sure could climb in value.

After the dividend ex date on a couple of those bond ETF's, I'm selling them. I took some of the cash out of this account and it will raise 10K cash for some positioning.

I have MORT and 400 shares of it, I don't need those Schwab funds, this account can do better than that.

**KVB** · 06-29-18, 08:51 PM

Originally posted by KVB

I bought 1 Call to Close C 7/20/18 67.00 @ 2.06.

This is a loss on the trade.

I sold 1 Call to Open C 7/20/18 69.00 @1.04.

I may be walking this the wrong way but I've changed my mind on my Citigroup exit point.

Yeah so things dropped like I hoped, but right after I bought at 2.06. This option went all the way to 1.65...

The good news is that I sold the 69 call and raised money. I bought this stock at 66.26 and basically lowered my cost .75 and raised my exit point to 69 with the option trades.

I was about sell Citi earlier this week, I don't what I was thinking. With the latest news, I think I can trade this one for cash.

Sports plays coming soon in this thread.

**KVB** · 07-02-18, 10:40 AM

Sold 100 shares HYLB @ 49.055.

I bought this at 49.37, received a $26.35 dividend and should have qualified for a dividend today. I'm not seeing the dividend ex date of today and I don't like this anymore. The trades were commission free through Schwab.

**KVB** · 07-02-18, 10:44 AM

Sold 100 shares SCHZ @ 50.5039.

Same deal, it was bought as 50.48, I should get a second monthly dividend of around $11.

Again commission free through Schwab and I freed up some cash in the account.

**KVB** · 07-02-18, 10:52 AM

I bought $10,000 worth of SWVXX.

It is money market mutual fund that has a current 7 day yield of 1.87%. Another commission free trade.

It has a one day settlement and I must sell to free up the cash, it will not sweep automatically but will settle faster than other trades.

**KVB** · 07-13-18, 02:44 PM

Dividends and income received recently…

USRT div. $49.70
MORT div. $150.17
MORT Inc. pymt $2.67
SCHZ div. 12.20

Things are up overall in the account and I am short a Citigroup call for next Friday at 69. IT looks like a well-placed short so far. I sold it for 103 and can buy it back for 12.

I also Sold $5000 worth of SWVXX.

I have to sell manually to free up the cash, it settles in one day.

**Jayvegas420** · 07-13-18, 05:45 PM

Where are the PotStocks?

**KVB** · 07-14-18, 02:32 PM

Originally posted by Jayvegas420

Where are the PotStocks?

Looking for an entry point actually, probably should just get in.

I need to research more.

They seem like good investments but I would rather throw down on a dispensary itself...~~good~~ great cash flow.

**KVB** · 07-14-18, 02:37 PM

Originally posted by KVB

...As many know, I have different trading strategies for sports and the SportsBook Blended fund in the Total Return Fund is a blend of strategies based on perceived long term value in multiple sports with some short term reactions based on market extremes. This fund will not include every play I make in sports and will not have many plays that counter forecasts, like I often post. The SportsBook fund will be managed by me. Other Sportsbook Funds, with different strategies managed by me, may be “purchased” for this account and any sportsbook strategic funds held will have the plays posted in this thread....

This will change. I have made no plays in the fund as it has just gotten off the ground and the criteria were too fluid for me this time of year. I am working on a way to create value that adds up, making some value perhaps better than others but the cost of that can only be mitigated by changing bet size. That didn't seem appropriate.

I am going to replace the fund in this account with a CFL Sharp Forecast Fund that gets the sharp forecast plays with a .5 discrepancy against the market, no matter what. This fund starts next week but had we been doing an early season stacking or sharp fund, it would have performed nicely.

I may start another thread and just get the plays copied into this thread but of course the forecasts are all in the CFL thread.

These plays start next week.

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 02:39 AM

This account has received $23.30 dividend PFFD.

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 02:55 AM

Here is a quick snapshot of the current account positions. This does not include the $5000 sport fund, of which there have been no trades. That fund will change.

I am down on two positions, GE and LNG. GE has come back a bit and LNG has only recently turned negative.

I have removed approximately $5714 of cash from this account, which will show in the increased allocations and there have been $390.85 of dividend and interest paid, including money market.

I have paid $93.81 in fees for this account.

Symbol	Quantity	Price	Market Value	Cost Basis	Gain/Loss $	Gain/Loss %	% Of Account
AMZN	4	$1,822.49	$7,289.96	$6,416.95	$873.01	13.60%	8.92%
AAPL	25	$190.91	$4,772.75	$4,711.70	$61.05	1.30%	5.84%
CELG	35	$85.23	$2,983.05	$2,770.50	$212.55	7.67%	3.65%
LNG	100	$60.99	$6,099.00	$6,299.14	($200.14)	-3.18%	7.46%
C	100	$69.46	$6,946.00	$6,625.95	$320.05	4.83%	8.50%
GME	200	$15.22	$3,044.00	$2,537.95	$506.05	19.94%	3.72%
GE	200	$13.90	$2,780.00	$2,940.07	($160.07)	-5.44%	3.40%
HIMX	1,000	$8.17	$8,170.00	$8,052.40	$117.60	1.46%	9.99%
MSFT	50	$104.91	$5,245.50	$4,932.70	$312.80	6.34%	6.42%
PFE	125	$37.38	$4,672.50	$4,479.95	$192.55	4.30%	5.72%
PFFD	200	$24.47	$4,894.00	$4,840.00	$54.00	1.12%	5.99%
USRT	100	$49.37	$4,937.00	$4,667.95	$269.05	5.76%	6.04%
MORT	400	$23.91	$9,564.00	$9,352.95	$211.05	2.26%	11.70%
C 07/20/2018 69.00 C	-1	$0.85	($85.00)	($103.35)	$18.35	17.76%	--
GME 07/20/2018 15.50 C	-2	$0.21	($41.00)	($143.72)	$102.72	71.47%	--
SWVXX	5,006.93	$1.00	$5,006.93	N/A	N/A	N/A	6.12%
Cash & Money Market	--	--	$5,351.91	--	--	--	6.55%
Account Total	--	--	$81,630.60	$68,381.14	$2,890.62	4.23%	--

**jjgold** · 07-17-18, 05:21 AM

A lot of winners but a 10 year bull market son

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 05:33 AM

Originally posted by jjgold

A lot of winners but a 10 year bull market son

Agreed, the market has done almost all the work so far.

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 05:34 AM

I have switched sport funds for this account, added $5000, and have moved $10,000 into the KVB CFL Sharp Forecast Fund. This fund will track the KVB CFL sharp forecast as it is compared to the point spread marketplace for every CFL game beginning July 19^th. Totals and moneylines will not be considered here.

If the opinion of the sharp forecast has at least a .5 point discrepancy against the market, a bet will be triggered. The sharp forecast uses adjusted scores and sometimes a team will have two possible outcomes, or scores, that have been weighted with equal probability. Both predicted outcomes will need to differ from the market by at least .5 points for a bet to be triggered.

There will be times when no bet is triggered and there will be times, it is possible, where two bets are triggered, resulting in loss of vigorish or a middle. This Fund will not wait for a better line, even if I think it is coming, on a bet that is triggered and will always bet as soon as possible.

This fund will be aggressive and the unit risked or each play will be 3.5%, or $350.

Plays will be posted as they are generated but there will be little analysis in this thread and I encourage anyone to visit the CFL thread for more analysis and information about the forecasts.

This week’s plays so far…

Saskatchewan +11 (-110) over Hamilton

Ottawa -6.5 (-102) over British Columbia

Winnipeg pk (-108) over Toronto.

Good Luck.

**Hman** · 07-17-18, 06:23 AM

Best of luck KVB

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 12:47 PM

Three calls...

Bought 1 Call to Open LNG 8/10/18 64.00 @ 1.21.

Bought 1 Call to Open LNG 8/17/18 65.00 @ 1.13.

Bought 1 Call to Open LNG 8/24/18 66.00 @ 1.04.

Earnings are announced August 9th, we are betting on LNG here.

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 12:47 PM

Originally posted by Hman

Best of luck KVB

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 12:58 PM

Sold 10 Calls to Open HIMX 7/27/18 8.00 @ .17.

This generated, after fees, $158.39 for the account.

A dividend date is coming on 7/19 and I expect a little pressure following the date. The account holds 1000 shares of HIMX at an average cost of 8.05 per share.

Maybe we squeeze a little out of the movement.

**jjgold** · 07-17-18, 02:11 PM

17 cents???

Not worth the risk

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 02:29 PM

Originally posted by jjgold

17 cents???

Not worth the risk

Becoming bearish in the short term for this stock so I don't see much risk. If I get called away I'll lose 50 on the stock but pocket the 158.

I can always retake my position if I'd like to.

When and if it stays below 8, I'll pocket the premium and do it again.

Squeezing out some dollars with what I have.

As long as I'm psychologically comfortable with getting called away at 8.00, then everything is cool.

It was a tough decision for 150 bucks...lol.

**KVB** · 07-17-18, 02:40 PM

Also, I went to the market like a fool with the trade but got a Schwab Price Improvement.

I was willing to sell and .15 but they got .17.

**jjgold** · 07-17-18, 03:45 PM

KVB always pay attention to your deltas and theta values