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The Rhino Options Strategy is a conservative, broken‑wing butterfly income trade with an upside hedge. Rhino is not just a simple trade; it’s a whole family of related strategies that have evolved over nearly a decade in response to changing market conditions.
Exploring alternative assets like GLD ETF options enhances portfolio diversification by tapping into distinct volatility profiles and correlation patterns, especially beneficial during volatile market environments.
In this post, we examine a simple, yet effective Put-Write strategy applied to GLD ETF Options, demonstrating how precious metals can serve as source of options income.
The last 12 to 18 months have been challenging for (the well-known) options strategies using medium- to long-dated tenors. A prolonged period of stagnation was followed by a crash (VolZilla), which unfortunately led to higher-than-usual drawdowns or, in some cases, completely wiped out accounts. Some attribute these results to skew dynamics, while others associate it with the end of the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP).
On August 5, 2024, Japanese stocks suffered their biggest daily loss since 1987. The Nikkei 225 closed down by over 12%. Shortly afterward, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates, causing the yen to surge higher. The increased interest rates and stronger yen forced market participants to unwind their yen carry trades.
Over the last two years, we have shared numerous backtests featuring public options trading strategies (such as NetZero, Boxcar, or Weekend Effect), strategy variants contributed by our customers (Volatility Hedged Theta Engine, Relaxed SuperBull trade), and built-in strategy templates that turned out to be good starting points (trailing stop, 0DTE-IC).
These income strategies cover a wide range of moneyness and time to maturity. Some stand out, others are just average and some are not performing well currently.
It is well known that diversification helps build better investments.In this article, we will explore how Equal Weighting and Modern Portfolio Theory might help improve investment performance.