Anyone trading TQQQ or UPRO?…

Anyone trading TQQQ or UPRO? Triple bulls on the qqq and spy.

Good premiums and obviously they whip around a lot but that is the point.

May start another experiment with some of these if no one else trading. Possible ITM CC candidates or sell puts on weeklies then if assigned roll into CC with hope of getting called out.

My only concern is excessive volatility or a sustained down move. I guess then could set up a synthetic short if you were long the stock and buy a few extra puts or buy the inverse SQQQ or SDS.

Thoughts, anyone doing this already?

I tend to not follow any of the Gurus other than tastytrade but this is one chuck hughes is always selling covered calls on. a 4 DTE ATM options holds 1.50 of premium.

11 DTE is going for 2.50 mid point.

#OT @Fuzzball I hope you…

#OT @Fuzzball I hope you and all persons in Florida found safe harbor from Irma. My daughter and her beau and pupster bailed on Tallahassee Saturday afternoon getting in here at 2:30 AM Sunday. She showed me pictures of the grad students camped out in their offices at FSU. Things look better. I will hate to see her head back when she goes but it has been a blessing she was able to get here.

Closing Dec LRCX

Bought to close $LRCX Dec 15 125 put @ .90. Sold for 4.30 (thanks again @jsd501). Taking the 80% off more than 3 months early.

$SVXY #ShortPuts This morning rolled…

$SVXY #ShortPuts This morning rolled my Covered Sept 15th 85 Calls out to Sept 29th 85 Calls for 1.35 credit.

$SPX #SpxCampaign Afternoon all. This…

$SPX #SpxCampaign Afternoon all. This morning I opened an Oct 06th 2525/2545/2370/2350 Iron Condor for 2.10 credit when SPX was at 2480.81. I closed the 2340/2360 remaining Put side of the Sept 29th IC for 0.45.

VXX puts

#VXXGame #LongPutDiagonals
Sold $VXX Sept 22nd 44 puts for .73. Also short 47 and 45.5 puts. If rally continues tomorrow I will be looking to roll.

EFX

#FallingKnife ?

NUGT #shortcalls BTC Sept 15…

NUGT #shortcalls

BTC Sept 15 $35 call for $6.15, sold 8/28 for $3.55 early this morning . . . should have waited as prices fell fast, now $3.80 heck!

UVXY #shortcalls BTC Sept 15…

UVXY #shortcalls

BTC Sept 15 $32 call for 0.30, sold last Friday for $2.06

DUST

buy at $21.25
trying to roll Sept 15 $19 call to Sept 22 $23 put for even money.

$UVXY #ShortCall – Bought to…

$UVXY #ShortCalls – Bought to close 1 UVXY Sep 15 2017 68.0 Call @ 0.01.
Originally sold on 08/10/2017 at 4.37.
Only in this trade 30 days.

$URBN #ShortPuts – Bought to…

$URBN #ShortPuts – Bought to close 1 URBN Sep 15 2017 20.0 Put @ 0.05.
It won’t trade any lower.
Originally sold on 03/08/2017 at 1.20.

$UVXY #ShortCalls #ClassicVXXGame – Bought…

$UVXY #ShortCalls #ClassicVXXGame – Bought to close 1 UVXY Jan 19 2018 65.0 Call @ 4.90. This is the first of many of these that I am covering. My average sell price is around 11.00.
I’m also carrying short 82 call and short 91 calls as well.
Making this trade with the VIX at 10.51, so the timing is probably OK.

$WDC

#longcalldiagonals

I’ve been doing one of Fuzzball’s “whiz” trades on $WDC… several weeks ago bought the Jan’19 67.5 call + sold the Jan’19 67.5 put + bought the Jan’19 62.5 put, the combo cost 22.50 at the time. Today I sold the WDC Sep22 90 call for 1.00. I am also short the 90 call for this week, sold last week for 0.91. I’m only trading 2 contracts (one per week), trying to get the hang  of it all. So far it has been really easy to roll, the weekly premium seems decent. The stock has however seen some volatility recently as WDC is attempting to buy Toahiba’s chip unit. Just putting this out there as an idea, working well for me so far… y’all let me know what you think!

#long, #synthetic

$SVXY #CoveredCalls – Adding to…

$SVXY #CoveredCalls – Adding to my positions
Sold SVXY SEP 15 2017 81.0 Calls @ 1.33
Sold SVXY SEP 15 2017 82.0 Calls @ 0.83
Sold SVXY SEP 15 2017 82.5 Calls @ 0.59

XBI ladder

rolled18 dte 76 put to 39 dte 78 put for 0.74 credit. Sold for 0.99 and it was down to 0.19.

@fuzzballl and @jsd501 you guys make it through the storm ok?

Closing $RH

Taking this off for 80+% of the potential profit.
Bought to close $RH Sep 15 75 calls @ .25. Sold for 1.50 on 9.7.

REGN adjustment

Rolled the 530 call (from the 9/29 460/530 strangle) down to 475 (22 delta) for 3.43 credit. Original trade was the 430/530 call. With rollups/rolldowns the remaining position is 9/29 460/475 strangle with the stock at 449.19. Breakeven on the downside is now 445.36.

#spxcampaign sto oct 11 2530/2550…

#spxcampaign

sto oct 11 2530/2550 call 1.70
sto oct 13 2535/2560 call 1.75
sto oct 11 2530/2550 call 1.60
20 spread giving 25 spread price and also some strikes not available.

VXX

#LongPutDiagonals – Trying not to let the weeklies get in too much trouble. Closing a batch at breakeven and selling more a little lower. Staying in this week…

Bought to Close VXX SEP 15 2017 47.5 Puts @ 1.95 (sold for 1.95)
Sold VXX SEP 15 2017 45.0 Puts @ .36

$UAA #ShortPuts – Bought to…

$UAA #ShortPuts – Bought to close UAA SEP 15 2017 17.5 Puts @ 0.31. Originally sold @ 0.66.

$HP #ShortPuts – Bought to…

$HP #ShortPuts – Bought to close 1 HP SEP 15 2017 45.0 Put @ 0.45. Originally sold at 1.25.
Still short December 40 puts.

$UVXY #ShortPuts – Bought to…

$UVXY #ShortPuts – Bought to close UVXY SEP 15 2017 25.0 Puts @ 0.01. This is the last of my puts on this stock.

$FLR #ShortPuts – Bought to…

$FLR #ShortPuts – Bought to close FLR SEP 29 2017 35.0 Puts @ 0.05. They won’t trade any lower.
Still 3 weeks until expiration.
Sold on 08/21/2017 at 0.60.

SPX calls sold

#SPXcampaign Sold to Open $SPX Oct 13th 2535/2560 call spreads for 1.50.

Two weekends in a row I got caught on the wrong side. Leaned bearish going into the weekend. It was NOT an Irma bet… I feel the market is still weak. But it seems weekend news (Korea then Irma) is highly influencing Monday action.

$SVXY #CoveredCalls – Re-selling covered…

$SVXY #CoveredCalls – Re-selling covered calls to replace positions that expired Friday with the stock at 79.40.
Sold SVXY SEP 15 2017 81.0 Calls @ 1.10
Sold SVXY SEP 15 2017 82.0 Calls @ 0.60
Sold SVXY SEP 15 2017 82.5 Calls @ 0.48

$HES #CoveredCalls – Sold HES…

$HES #CoveredCalls – Sold HES SEP 15 2017 41.5 Calls @ 0.20 with the stock at 40.31. These expire Friday

Econ Calendar for week of 9/11/17

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#spxexpectedmove ending this Friday

#spxexpectedmove
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ending this Friday