#SyntheticStock – Taking my own advice with this one. Sold the covered stock on the bounce and rolling it all into #SyntheticStock. Going in at twice the size for only one fifth of the cash required to hold the stock while drastically reducing risk.

Stock was originally assigned at 470.0 and weeks of call selling has reduced that to a 416.70 basis. Sold the covered stock position this afternoon for 381.40. I’ll roll the 35.30 loss into the basis of the synthetic by adding 17.65 to that cost (since synthetic is twice the size).

Bought to Open REGN JAN 17 2020 400.0 Calls @ 74.06
Sold to Open REGN JAN 17 2020 400.0 Puts @ 71.68
Bought to Open REGN JAN 17 2020 390.0 Puts @ 66.62

Net debit of 69.00 plus 10 dollar downside risk plus 17.65 from existing stock position for a total max loss possibility of 96.65. With 107 weeks for the trade to run only need to sell about 90 cents a week to cover entire worst case scenario.

So:

Sold REGN JAN 5 2018 397.5 Calls @ 1.95

Been a great ticker this year but odds caught up with me and was early exercised on Jan monthly 54 strike puts. Sold the covered stock on the bounce and rolling it all into #SyntheticStock. Going in at twice the size for only one fifth of the cash required to hold the stock.

Stock when assigned was at a 51.70 basis and sold for 47.65 this morning. I’ll roll the 4.05 loss into the basis of the synthetic by adding 2.03 to that cost (since synthetic is twice the size).

Bought to Open EWW JAN 17 2020 48.0 Calls @ 6.90
Sold to Open EWW JAN 17 2020 48.0 Puts @ 6.79
Bought to Open EWW JAN 17 2020 46.0 Puts @ 5.65

Net debit of only 5.76 plus 2 dollar downside risk plus 2.03 from early exercise loss for a total max loss possibility of 9.79. With 107 weeks for the trade to run only need to sell about 9 cents a week to cover entire max loss.

So:

Sold EWW JAN 12 2018 49.0 Calls @ .34

#SyntheticStock – Taking advantage of the pullback to book this one. Been fighting the front month ITM calls for awhile. Good chance to close it for a nice winner and look to reset possibly after earnings.

Sold to Close AAPL JAN 17 2020 155.0 Puts / 155.0 Calls Synthetic Stock @ 18.10
Sold to Close AAPL JAN 17 2020 145.0 Disaster Puts @ 10.70
Bought to Close AAPL FEB 2 2018 167.5 Calls @ 7.45

Net credit to close of 21.35. Basis in the position after other front month sales was 17.38

Net gain of 3.97 per spread. I’ll take it considering the front month sales have been DITM from almost the very beginning.