The market Friday broke to the upside at the open and never looked back.

As a result it was what I’ve now come to call in my mind a “perfect trending day” in what I ironically call the “Fool’s Game”. That is to say since I started trading and tracking weekly SPY calls and puts solely on as longs and solely as day trades to avoid as much time decay as possible, it is a day when the in-the-money option gains more than 100% on the trend for day.

Friday’s expiring weekly SPY 275 calls vaulted on my day-trading signal into the close for 252% profit on the day trade. That is $25,200 for each $10K traded, in this instance 93 contracts (see the white flag on the lower right of the 10-minute chart below).

Going into Friday, last week’s trading was truly looking like a fool’s game.

From Monday to Thursday, the daily trades were down a cumulative 150% for the week, $15k for each $10k traded, the first weekly loss of the year.

But there had been no trending day during the week, by Thursday no 100% plus day, another first for the year.

And it was also a Friday, when the weekly option expires and there are the most volatile movements. There have been twelve trending days (up and down) in the first ten weeks on this year and five of those days have come on a Friday, making Friday this week once again the best possibility for another trending day.

And so it was to be, as it turned out. Rather spectacularly. For 252%, the second biggest day-trading gain of the year (on February 2nd, the Fool’s Game racked up a 265% gain on a put trade), and turning the loss on the trades for the week into an overall 100% profit.

(click on the chart for a larger view)



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