Stock / Symbol: Qualcomm / QCOM; Option Strategy: bull put spread; Trade entry date / price: 19 Nov / $48.88; Price at trade exit: $49.60 Reasoning: With this trade already capturing 70% of the possible profit, I’m going to close it out here for a quick win. 16% return in 1 day. Closing Trade Details: […]
Stock / Symbol: Qualcomm / QCOM; Price at trade post: $48.88; Option Strategy: bull put spread; Reasoning: This trade seeks to benefit from decreasing volatility following yesterday’s antitrust allegations against QCOM in South Korea. I’m using weekly options expiring on Nov 27th. The Greeks going into this trade are: 25.6 Delta; 2.5 Theta; -1.6 Vega […]
Stock / Symbol: Russell 2000 / RUT; Option Strategy: bull put spread; Trade entry date / price: 15 Jul / $1272; Price at this adjustment: $1153; Reasoning: Downside stop hit. Closing trade here to prevent further loss. Closing Trade Details: BTC -1 RUT Sep15 1120 put STC 1 RUT Sep15 1110 put for a max […]
Stock / Symbol: Russell 2000 / RUT; Option Strategy: [private_monthly]bull put spread[/private_monthly]; Trade entry date / price: 15 Jul / $1272; Price at this adjustment: $1208; Reasoning: Going to put this trade back on but with one month further out and a 40 point lower strike for the short put. Trade Adjustment Details:[private_monthly] STO -1 […]
Stock / Symbol: S&P500 Index / SPX Option Strategy: bull put spread Trade entry date / price: 29 Jun / $2079 Price at this post: $2070 Analysis: We were filled on our order to buy back the 1880/1870 put spread for $0.10 on July 29th. We never were filled on the order to sell the […]
Stock / Symbol: Russell 2000 / RUT; Option Strategy: [private_monthly]bull put spread[/private_monthly]; Trade entry date / price: 15 Jul / $1272 Price at this adjustment: $1223; Reasoning: Close to our stop and would like to step out of the way (for now) ahead of the Fed’s announcement this afternoon. I’ll look to put the trade […]
Stock / Symbol: S&P500 Index / SPX Option Strategy: bull put spread Trade entry date / price: 29 Jun / $2079 Price at trade post: $2124 Reasoning: With over 80% of the trades potential profit realized (if filled at current mid), I’m going to enter in the a closing order for the bull put spread. […]
Stock / Symbol: Russell 2000 / RUT; Option Strategy: [private_monthly]bull put spread[/private_monthly]; Price at trade post: $1272; Reasoning: I’m putting on a [private_monthly]bull put spread[/private_monthly] on RUT for August expiration. With a standard deviation of +/- 61 for RUT by Aug 21, I’m going a bit conservative and selling the [private_monthly]1160 puts (covering with the […]
Stock / Symbol: S&P500 Index / SPX Option Strategy: [private_monthly]bull put spread[/private_monthly] Price at trade post: $2079 Reasoning: Going to take advantage of the increased volatility, due to the concerns over Greece, and open up a [private_monthly]bull put spread[/private_monthly] here on SPX for August option expiration. If the market returns to its recent highs, I’ll […]
Stock / Symbol: Russell 2000 / RUT; Option Strategy: [private_monthly]bull put spread[/private_monthly]; Trade entry date / price: Dec 12 / $1161 Price at this post: $1198 Reasoning: Thanks to the market’s pop + drop in volatility, we’re up about 8% just a week into the trade. Going to attempt to ring the cash register now […]