... for a 1.02/contract credit. Comments: With only .13 left in the 20's, rolling the short call aspect of my covered calls down to the November 17.5's for a 1.02/contract credit, with a resulting cost basis of 15.76 (See Post Below) - 1.02 or 14.74/share and a max profit potential of the short call strikes (17.5) minus 14.74 or ($276) per contract.
... for a .39/contract credit. Comments: The October 15th 18 short calls appeared to be no bid, but stuck an order out there anyway, which got filled. Here, rolling my MJ 18's out to January, since there isn't a December and November isn't paying particularly well at the 18 strike. Current cost basis is now 17.13 (See Post Below) minus .39 or 16.74, so I can...
... for a .52/contract credit. Comments: This is to cover the 16's I was assigned on last week. They had a cost basis of 15.57/share (See Post Below). By selling the 16's against for .52, my cost basis in the shares is now 15.57 - 15.52 = 15.05/share.
The market always knows.. as we mentioned a few days ago $AAPL front month vol got bid up above 2-month vol in contrast to the market.. and that forecast in increased vol has already shown up today.. AAPL fell 3.31% the most in months on almost double average volume and a whopping 2.4m contracts traded.. if you’re a long term holder you can still sell some covered...
... for .38/contract. Notes: Waited a little bit after taking assignment of shares (See Post Below) to sell calls against. Here, selling the strike at which my short puts were originally. Cost basis/break even is now 17.13/share, so my current profit potential is the short call strike (18.00) minus my cost basis (17.13) or .87 ($87)/one lot. Still have...
... for a .41/contract credit. Notes: Rolling my covered calls from September to October here with a resulting cost basis of 16.17 (See Post Below) - .42 or 15.76/share. I wanted to do this before more volatility pisses out post-earnings announcement. Still have the September 17th 15 short put on, which I'm intending to run to expiry, since this is a...
... for a 142.60 credit/contract. Comments: Hit my order to take this off at or near max today. (The max would be 143.00, so the order I stuck out thereI took it off .40 short of that). An über long-running covered call setup with the last acquisition of shares around $110/share. (See Post Below). Unfortunately, I didn't keep good track of short call premium...
... for an .80/contract credit. Notes: With the 144's at 50% max, rolling out and down to the 28 delta strike in August. Total credits collected of 7.93/contract (See Post Below) versus a short call value of 1.61 = realized gain of 6.32 so far. I last acquired at around 110/share, so am fine here with being called away (even though I don't think that's going...
... for a .92/contract credit. Notes: A continuation of my TLT covered calls. (See Post Below). With the May 21st 148's at greater than 50% max, rolled out to the June 145's. Total credits collected of 6.42/contract with the June 21st 145's currently valued at around 1.60/contract, so I've realized gains of around 4.82/contract on the call side so far this...
After a long, sideways consolidation, Amazon is approaching the limit of this wedge. An earlier trend line forms resistance above at around 3700. Play this with April/May expiration options. Open a long $3200/$3400 strangle expiring in May and sell a $3700 strike call expiring in April. The long $3400 call + the short $3700 call itself constitutes a poor man's...
On Monday, Sell highly inflated out of the money call options on Mondays utilising the "recalibration/catch up" from RIOT compared to BTCUSD which runs all weekend. On Tuesday, Dip Buy weekly long calls, ride the wave up, flip em for profit. If Friday sell-off (like often), go long calls and flip them on Monday morning at the top, flip them + add your covered...
... for a 1.00/contract credit. Notes: A continuation of my TLT covered calls. (See Post Below). Rolling out at >50% max to the strike paying around 1% of the strike price, which is the 163 in February, currently valued at 1.66. I'm fine with being called away, since my last acquisition was around 110, and I think the buying power could be better utilized in...
If you trust Bill Ackman, his new SPAC Pershing Square Tontine Holdings looks like a great candidate for a very short-term covered call position. Ackman has been on fire lately. Last year his flagship fund Pershing Square Holdings was up 58% and this year to date he’s up 46% after he turned a $27 million hedging position into $2.6 billion as markets tanked in...
PBCT is pushing higher and I believe the stock is cheap and will continue to go higher in the couple months. As their is a good amount of upside, I do see some resistance near $14.00. To protect my investment and to capitalize on upward move, I bought 200 shares @ $12.53 and sold 1 call @ 12 strike and sold 1 call at $13 strike. My net profit potential is $159 or...
Wells Fargo has taken a beating in 2019 and 2020. With stock falling significantly, I believe the stock is due for a bounce. I bought 100 shares on 6/3/2020 @ $28.86 and due to volatile expectancy of this stock, I sold an ITM 28.50 sell call for a credit of $2.12. My max profit is $212 - intrinsic value ($36) =$176 or 6.09% max profit at expiration on July 10th,...
In May, I was bearish on micron as we were trading in a sideways action and I thought that the S&P500 would have some form of meaningful selloff and that high volatile stocks would sell off the most. To my surprise, this stock hasn't really done anything in the past few weeks and today, I noticed that stock broke up resistance wedge. With this wedge breakout, I...
... for a .31/contract debit. Notes: Hard to believe that these were well in the money a few days ago, but they've largely done their job. Over time, I collected 11.70/contract in credits, and am closing out here for .31, so made 11.39 ($1139)/contract, all while protecting my SPY position from most of the bruising it got over the last week. (See Overwriting...
Here, I'm going covered call because ANF has a small divvy that I want to attempt to grab (.20/$20 per 100 shares), so I need to own the shares to do that. The record date is 3/3, so I will need to hold the shares until at least then. I'm going monied because I just don't trust this thing not to implode somewhat post earnings ... . Metrics: Probability of...