Stock / Symbol: Apple Inc / AAPL Option Strategy: [private_monthly]diagonal call spread + calendar put spread[/private_monthly] Trade entry date / price: 27 Apr / $131.55 Price at this adjustment: $128.74 Adjustment: Rolling up the short call on AAPL to a 135 expiring in July. With AAPL over $120 by next Friday’s expiration, going to allow […]
Stock / Symbol: Apple Inc / AAPL Option Strategy: [private_monthly]diagonal call spread + calendar put spread[/private_monthly] Trade entry date / price: 27 Apr / $131.55 Price at this adjustment: $132.46 Adjustment: Putting a diagonal call spread back on AAPL. However, I’m still concerned about AAPL pulling back, so I’m also adding in another calendar put […]
Stock / Symbol: Apple Inc / AAPL Option Strategy: [private_monthly]diagonal call spread + calendar put spread[/private_monthly] Trade entry date / price: 27 Apr / $131.55 Price at this adjustment: $132.85 Adjustment: With AAPL not failing following its earnings announcement, I’m taking off the protective put calendar. Trade Adjustment Details:[private_monthly] STC 1 AAPL May 124 put […]
Stock / Symbol: Apple Inc / AAPL Option Strategy: [private_monthly]diagonal call spread + calendar put spread[/private_monthly] Price at trade post: $131.55 Reasoning: Coming into this afternoon’s earnings announcement, I’m going putting on a delta positive trade on AAPL. I’m going long with a diagonal call spread and short with a put calendar. This trade has […]
Stock / Symbol: SPDR S&P500 ETF / SPY Option Strategy: calendar put spread Trade entry date / price: Aug 26 / $200.20 Price at this post: $200.92 Reasoning: Just didn’t get the market pullback I was anticipating. Closing out here for a small gain on the trade. Current Greeks are: -33 delta, 9 theta, and […]
Stock / Symbol: SPDR S&P500 ETF / SPY Option Strategy: [private_monthly]calendar put spread[/private_monthly] Trade entry date / price: Aug 26 / $200.20 Price at this post: $198.98 Adjustment: Going to roll the short puts to next week’s, Sep14 expiring puts. We’ve captured some nice premium on the puts we sold and now have another week […]
Stock / Symbol: SPDR S&P500 ETF / SPY Option Strategy: [private_monthly]put calendar spread[/private_monthly] Price at trade post: $200.20 Reasoning: Looking to take advantage of the low volatility, I’m putting on a [private_monthly]put calendar[/private_monthly] on SPY. The greeks going into this trade are: -29.4 delta, -0.1 theta, and 31.7 vega. Using weeklies on the short puts, […]
Stock / Symbol: Apple Inc / AAPL Option Strategy: [private_monthly]calendar put spread[/private_monthly] Price at trade post: $94.18 Reasoning: Coming into this afternoon’s earnings annuoncement, I’m going to bet that Samsung has eaten into Apple’s iphone revenues and Google/Samsung into Apple’s tablet revenues. Not risking much here as we could just as easily see a positive […]
Stock / Symbol: SPDR DOW Jones Industrial Avg ETF / DIA Option Strategy: calendar put spread Trade entry date / price: Jan 24 / $159.15 Price at time of post: $156.30 Reasoning: This trade worked out very nicely both in terms of percent gain (60% or more in 1 week!!) and as a hedge against […]
Stock / Symbol: SPDR DOW Jones Industrial Avg ETF / DIA Option Strategy: calendar put sprad Price at trade post: $159.15 Reasoning: Putting this trade on to bring our portfolio Delta closer to neutral. The Greeks on this DIA put calendar are: delta of -16.5, a positive theta of 8 and a positive vega of […]