$SVXY #CoveredCalls – a lesson on why not to trade on your phone.
Friday I was attempting to roll some strike 70 calls that were about to expire out 3 weeks to some Sep 30 2016 72.0 calls for a credit. I got a spread order off, Buying strike 70s at 5.81 and selling strike 72s at 6.69. All good, right? Well … not so much.
I realized a few hours later that I had fat-fingered the spread order and bought the Sep 9 2016 70 calls that I did not formerly have a position in, putting me long 10 contracts. And I was still short the Sep 2 2016 calls that I had intended to cover.
I spent the rest of the day trying to cover the Sep 2 contracts while liquidating the long Sep 9 contracts. The bid ask spreads just kept getting wider and wider until near the close I just put in a covering order at 6 for the Sep 2 contract figuring if it didn’t fill at least I could deliver some long stock I was holding. The stock was trading above 76 at the close but just after the close the stock dipped and the option order filled.
So this morning, thanks to strong opening I sold some stock at 76.30 in the premarket and then sold the long calls at 6.80 when the market opened.
So I made almost $1000 on the long options I didn’t really want. Most of the time it doesn’t work out so well. I’m cooling my jets for the rest of the week.
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