$SVXY $65 puts
Other trades today
Closed Jan 12 $UVXY $8/$9.5 call spreads @ $0.60 (sold for $0.75) made lunch $
$DWDP Rolled #CoveredCalls from Jan 12 $71 to Feb 2 $71.50 for even, last of my stock so holding a bit longer
$RCL Rolled #CoveredCalls from Jan 12 $125 to Jan 26 $127 for @0.61 credit.
Sizable position so letting it run the distance.
HIMX 11.5 calls (sold for .27)
#bitty FB
Jan. 19 170/175 BuPS for .60
This was a busted #ShortStrangles that I turned into a #CoveredCalls position. After selling for quite a few weeks I’m using this bounce to book it for a .10 loss. Happy to be out and freeing up some room for earnings season.
Sold to Close SWKS Covered Stock @ 99.23 (bought for 99.33)
#SyntheticShortStock #LongPutDiagonals
Took the cue from @fuzzballl and closed one of these (I originally had 2). Can’t make a whole lot more on this since we’re getting closer to zero on the stock.
Closed $UVXY Jan 2019 positions:
Long 30 put, Short 30 call, Long 40 call for 23.91.
Bought for 17.10 on Aug 17th.
That’s a $6.81 profit, BUT I also lost $818 total in the attempt to sell short-term puts. Since I had 2 positions, that’s a $409 loss for each, so profit on this one is $272.
As for the other one, I previously closed the call spread for 1.60 (on Dec 20th), and I put in an order to close the remaining long put for 24.50, which price is already near. That would mean a $171 profit on that half.
I am keeping my $VXX version of this open, since the stock is still at 25.75 so my long 20 puts still have a lot to gain. I have closed a third of my short call spreads, and I added more long puts “naked” anyway, so I’m long 18 puts, currently at 4.68, average purchase 1.77. I lost a bigger bundle on the sale of short-term puts on VXX, but my ending profit on the long puts will make up for it and them some.
I will look to do this again when they launch $VXXB with the 2020 LEAPs. But that time, I will skip the #Fuzzy hedging and just go with the synthetic short.
Only 4 expirations today. I wonder if the big boys are waiting for after the nest expiration to try and sell this market.
SVXY: 60 puts,65 puts,70 puts, and 75 puts.
#ShortPuts – In my “SVXY only” account that has done absolutely nothing this year…I’ll follow @hcgdavis ‘s lead and try to shake things up a little. Sort of a #TakeOneForTheTeam trade…
Sold SVXY FEB 2 2018 120.0 Put @ 2.31
Sold SVXY FEB 9 2018 120.0 Put @ 3.20
#ShortStrangles #CoveredCalls – There was a method to my madness…LOL Turning inverted strangle into a covered stock position.
Current position is 435/415 Inverted Strangle @ 19.35 credit.
Rolling the 415 call out a week to 420 for a small .35 debit and taking the stock at a 416 basis. Should work nicely with earnings the following week and bigly premium available.
#SyntheticShortStock – Next split has to be soon so I’m now fully loaded after closing the short VXX the other day. I’ve rolled my short puts out to 5 strike 2020’s. I’ll probably ride those into the ground unless we get a huge spike but should easily be offset by this position and should be able to ride 2019’s down again and 2020’s at least twice. I’ll roll them another year if I can but not sure if we can roll when they become “post split” options.
Sold to Close UVXY 30/30/55 Synthetic Short Stock @ 23.47 (bought for 14.91)
This was all just a big experiment when I first suggested it back at the last split. I’d have to say a stress free huge success along with the VXX short!
Dream big they say!
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/infamous-mystery-trader-refuses-bet-171100153.html
BTC March 35 puts @.05, 2 months early, sold @ 1.40 when the credit unions tanked.
Jeff I have a fellow wants to join you. How can he do that?
Taking this position off before expiration next week. The stock was below the strike as recently as yesterday so I decided to close it for 65% of the max profit.
Bought to close $HSIC Jan 19 72.50 puts @ .35. Sold for 1.00 on 8/9.
#shortputs AXDX
Rolled Jan. 30 put to Feb. 30 put for .99
#spxcampaign
Closed early
$SPX BTC 1/17 2705/2730 BUPS @ .20 STO 1/5 @6.25 97% of profit Thank you @jeffcp66
Rainy day here, had planned to go skiing as I have the day off but no fun when 65 degrees and raining, so stayed home and traded.
#vxxgame SVXY closes, rolls and take a few for the team. By going directional now the market should reverse which will help some of my other trades 🙂
SVXY BTC Jan 19 50 put for 0.04 and 55 put for 0.05. Sold at 1.27, 1.37, 1.14
BTC Jan 19 80 put for 0.11 sold for 1.14
STO SVXY Feb 9 125 puts for 3.90. I have feeling these will get tagged, that’s may hope anyway, a reverse hedge for some of my other positions. If this one does not do well will still make $ on the others then.
TQQQ rolled Jan 26 120 put to Feb 16 140 puts for 1.90 credit. Sold for 1.25
BX Closed out #fuzzy Jan 2019 25 Jan 18 33 diagonal and made a whopping 108 profit, it was 318 but the bid-ask on the options on this one do not trade well. BX is not a good trading name-just FYI. However, had I done a CC it would have closed next week at full profit, see @smasty160 fuzzy discussion below. There are a few names where a CC makes more sense than a synthetic, this was one of them.
USO, sold 2 Jan 19 puts at 11 for 0.54. This is a tiny account and that is all I could figure out to do with the BP left and still make a decent premium.
Hope everyone finishes out the week strong!
Chris
#SPXcampaign Closed $SPX Jan 26th 2800/2825 call spreads for 5.80. Sold for 3.60 yesterday. These got close to 7.00 at the highs. It is still a folly to attempt to short this market.
#SPXcampaign Closed the $SPX Jan 16th 2750/2770 call spreads for 18.40.
This expires Monday and the max gain is 20.00. I figured if I could get 18.40 of that today, it was worth closing early. I didn’t really think it would fill when the morning started, but it did.
Bought for 2.80 on Jan 5th, the day after the Upside Warning fired.
BTC January 19, 45 puts @.01, sold @ .95
Here’s one out of the dust bin. Just did a reverse split last week and with nat gas up during the arctic blast I’m (sort of) considering #SyntheticShortStock . I’d rather use BOIL but due to the lack of weeklies and no recent splits UNG caught my eye.
Weekly premium is kinda weak but it’s a slow enough mover that over the long haul it could really add up…
No position yet…
BTC NFLX Jan 19 200/197.5 .03 sold 1/9 for .25
#SyntheticStock – Not really using LEAPS and probably too long of a duration to qualify as a #Fuzzy. More of a hybrid here….thanks @smasty for the idea.
Sold KR JUL 20 2018 28.0 Puts @ 2.27
Bought KR JUL 20 2018 28.0 Calls @ 2.68
Bought KR JUL 20 2018 26.0 Puts @ 1.44
This gives a net debit of 1.85 for the Jul 2018 position. Add the 2 point max downside and get a max loss possibility of 3.85. Based on that, and the 27 weeks remaining in the trade I only need to average about 14 cents per week in sales to cover the absolute worst case scenario. I’m adding a small hedge out a couple weeks. This would keep me on pace for weekly sales to cover max loss but also still give the trade long deltas all the way up to about 30.75.
For some reason, I don’t have the ba**s to carry these completely unhedged. For now I’m changing it up a little by selling the first hedge with a lot of room instead of being so aggressive right out of the gate.
Sold KR JAN 26 2018 29.5 Calls @ .25
#SyntheticStock – Rolling weekly up and out picking up upside and long deltas…
Rolled EWW JAN 12 2018 49.0 Calls to EWW FEB 16 2018 50.0 Calls @ .10 credit
#shortputs
$FB STO 1/26 172.50/177.50 BUPS @ 1.40
SPY Jan 19 270/268/273 rolled hedge from jan 17 276 to jan 19 276 .30 net cost now .63
Using some volatility to sell puts, pre-earnings and post-earnings with the stock at 179.54. IV rank is 87.
Sold $FB Jan 26 172.50 puts @ 1.25
Sold $FB Feb 16 160.00 puts @ 1.25
#CoveredCalls #CoveredCallCampaign #earnings
Got whipsawed on this one… first time in the year since I started this, so not bad.
Sold $FB Jan 26th 182.5 call for 1.30 on Jan 2nd.
Closed it for 5.50 on Wednesday.
Today, we get the dip I wish I’d waited for. But now looking at a run up into earnings, so I sold Jan 26th 180 put for 3.55.
Earnings are Jan 31st. I will look into strangles on the day before.
Rolled $AMZN Jan 26 1255 call up and out to Feb 16 1290 call for 5.75 credit with the stock at 1283.46.
One #Fuzzy Concern
One little thing that concerns me about hedged fuzzies that I wanted to throw out is the real possibility that we’ll start seeing a resurgence of special dividends with the new tax plan. Maybe not this quarter, but this year could be a big year like 2015-16 was for these things. Talk about a hedge killer! Companies on their conference calls are saying they have too much money on their balance sheets—so that means employee bonuses, share buybacks, debit recovery, raised dividends, acquisitions, and special dividends. The last one will catch us by surprise on hedges, ouch!
#SPXcampaign Closed on GTC order in pre-market:
$SPX Jan 17th 2730/2705 put spreads for .40. Sold for 6.50.
Good Morning from sunny So Florida
Fishback has their simple VIX profits available again for $1495. Anyone interested? I am not advertising for them but I have not been able to fully reverse engineer their trigger for switching from VXX to XIV.
If some others are interested we could split price and all learn the trigger for the #vxxgame trades.
Jan 11 #Fuzzy Land
I don’t quite know how to start this. My life in Fuzzyland has become more of a teenage horror flick. Don’t get me wrong. It’s awesome! It’s morphed into something I never expected. I never expected this trade to have the incredible versatility that it does (especially when unhedged for short term swing trading with limited risk). You’ll have to tell me how much Fuzzy detail you want, because there are SO many fuzzy trades going on now, that it will overwhelm posts. Do you want it all? Maybe just highlights? Maybe just indexes? or UOA? I closed down a lot of fuzzies today for a net profit on closures of $30,210.00 A lot of these were fuzzies with the old $10.00 spread risk design. My newer designs have tighter spreads for less risk. So I’m happy to take the profits and look for opportunities to reset.
1. SPY finally flat on all Spy for $5393.00 YTD (8 trading days) on fuzzies.
2. CVX closed for net $1875.00. The core trade alone was up 330%
3. FAS 1, 2 closed for net $1540.
4. IWM 1,2 opened just yesterday closed for $1280 due to hedges seriously blown out. The cores were up 180% in 1 day.
5. CMCSA, which I unhedged yesterday on UOA I closed today for $2140 profit. The core was up 202%
6. The Fuzzy Biotech Experiment (EXAS, EXEL, GWPH) with just 1 week left to monthly expiration I decided to throw some hedges on. What the heck, what can happen in a week. I’ll tell you what, right after the close EXAS announces a debt offering the stock drops $4.00–so that’s a well-timed hedge.
7. New Fuzzy on DAL Mar 55/55/52.5 for 2.64 already had to manage a hedge once on it
8. New Fuzzy on KR on UOA Mar 2 28/28/26 for .50 unhedged
9. New Fuzzy on KBH Apr 39/39/36 unhedged 1.32
10. CELG hedge rolled to next week 106, will close next week for earnings, this is my oldest fuzzy.
11. JPM I’ve been eagerly awaiting tomorrow to load JPM back into the Fuzzy lineup.
STO 1/8 SPY Jan 19 270/268 BuPS BTO SPY 1/19 273 call 1.47
STO 1/10 1/12 276 Call .32
Rolled 276 1/12 to 1/17 .32
net cost 90.50
have an order in to roll again to 1/19 .30
#fuzzy
did I do this correctly Sue??
#spxcampaign Closed Early
$SPX STC 1/12 2750/2775 BUCS @ 13.00 BTO @ .94 on 12/20 Have a few left. Thank you @jeffcp66
$SPX BTC 1/16 2675/2700 BUPS @ .20 (GTC order) STO @ 5.00 on 1/3 Many thanks SPX guru @jeffcp66
#shortputs Closed Early
$BABA BTC 1/19 195/185 BECS @ 4.30 STO @ 1.30 on 12/22
#shortputs
$NFLX STO 1/19 210/215 BUPS @ 1.40 Earnings 1/22 – Expecting melt up
#SPXcampaign Sold $SPX Jan 26th 2800/2825 call spreads for 3.60.
I decided to dip my toe in since we had such a strong surge at the end of the day. If we get any pullback or consolidation over next couple of days, I can close this for under a dollar. If not, I’ll stop it at 5.00 or 6.00.
Roll EWZ Jan12’18 40.5 calls to Jan26’18 41 calls for 0.05 debit. A pull back would be nice in this one.
Roll MGM Jan12’18 34 calls to MGM Jan26’18 34.5 calls for 0.09 credit.
#SyntheticStock – Don’t trust it. Could wake up tomorrow and be up 30.
Bought to Close REGN JAN 12 2018 390.0 Calls @ .10 (sold for 3.55)
Other than one option sold in $GUSH, just riding the wave today as the Upside Warning brings us higher. I’m going to sell my long $SPX Jan 12th 2750/2775 call spreads today for 13.75 or best I can get before the close. It may go higher tomorrow, but for that I have the same spread with Tuesday’s expiration.
I gotta believe we’re due for a consolidation period soon, but it’s hard to pick a top. Rather than my typical 5-weeks-out, I will probably try selling some shorter term call spreads, as they will lose their value very fast once we consolidate.
STO JPM strangle JAN 18 115/105 for .41 cr. Expected move is 3.18 for Jan 19. Earnings Friday morning.
BTC February 16, 80 put @.05, sold at 1.05
Still stubbornly in the money and now with little to no time value left, this option was demanding to be rolled so I obliged. Rolled the short Jan 19 115 put out to Mar 16 115 put for 1.47 credit.
#ShortPuts STO 2 Apr 20 35 puts @ 1.60 manage to 50% watch earnings about Mar 15.
#CoveredCalls BTC Jan 19 40 cc @ 1.10, STO Jan 2 @ 1.00 it’s an $18 loss, shares broke above 40, cost basis 40.965, now trading @ 40.30. With .45 div still ahead, but need to watch upward ticks on CC, IV51.60.
#SyntheticStock – Nice winner I’m planning on closing before earnings. It’s up near resistance but also in a nice squeeze so rolling weeklies up and out picking up a lot of long deltas. Hoping for a break above 34.50…
Rolled MGM FEB 2 2018 32.5 Calls to MAR 16 2018 33.0 Calls @ .28 credit
#shortputs T
Sold Feb. 16 35 put for .48, goes with TradeWise Feb. 16, 39 covered call. Ex dividend date was Jan. 9, T has dropped almost 2.00, seems to be leveling.
STC Jan 12 2650/2675 Calls 10.10 bought 1/8 for .47
Thank You Jeff
STO MU Jan19’18 45 call for 0.32
btc on gtc T, 9 FEB 18 38 CALL @.45 had sold on Monday for 1.01
goal 50%
First position in this 3x oil & gas ETF.
Sold $GUSH Mar 16 44 calls @ 2.05. Highest strike in March.
A lot of monkeys lived near a village. One day a merchant came to the village to buy these monkeys! He announced that he will buy the monkeys @ $100 each.
The villagers thought that this man is mad. They thought how can somebody buy stray monkeys at $100 each? Still, some people caught some monkeys and gave them to this merchant and he paid them $100 for each monkey. This news spread like wildfire and people caught monkeys and sold them to the merchant.
After a few days, the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @$200 each. The lazy villagers also ran around to catch the remaining monkeys! They sold the remaining monkeys @$200 each.
Then the merchant announced that he will buy monkeys @$500 each! The villagers start to lose sleep! … They caught six or seven monkeys, which was all that was left and got $500 each.
The villagers were waiting anxiously for the next announcement. Then the merchant announced that he is going home for a week. And when he returns, he will buy monkeys @$1000 each! He asked his employee to take care of the monkeys he bought. He was alone taking care of all the monkeys in a cage.
The merchant went home. The villagers were very sad as there were no more monkeys left for them to sell at $1000 each. Then the employee told them that he will secretly sell some of the monkeys @$700 each. This news spread like wildfire. Since the merchant now buys monkeys @$1000 each, there is a $300 profit for each monkey.
The next day, villagers made a queue near the monkey cage. The employee sold all the monkeys at $700 each. The rich bought monkeys in big lots. The poor borrowed money from money lenders and also bought monkeys!
The villagers took care of their monkeys & waited for the merchant to return. But nobody came! … Then they ran to the employee but he had already left, too!
The villagers then realized that they have bought the useless stray monkeys @ $700 each and are unable to sell them!
Now you understand how Bitcoin works.
Well with that solved, back from PSP and ready to go to work…LOL
Jan 10 #Fuzzy part 2
It’s not Friday yet? Another crazy day. Already reported a few trades this morning, that seems like days ago. It’s warm enough in Denver to light an afternoon fire on the patio, problem is we’ve had almost zero snow–so I don’t want an errant spark to burn down the adjacent field.
1. SPY update: $4753 YTD, Still have 40 Fuzzies all hedged
2. All the (45, not 40) Q Fuzzies got hedged with Jan 19 162.5 calls @ .85-.86 cr
3. TGT new Fuzzy Feb 70/70/67.5 @2.26 Jan 19 71.5 call @.98
4. IWM 20 new Fuzzy 154/154/151 @2.88 Jan 19 155.5 call -.66 (OI is big on the 155 line for next week)
5. IWM 20 new Fuzzy 155/155/152 @ 2.35 Jan 19 155.5 call -.73
6. CMCSA BIG BIG BIG UOA on this 15 min before the close (that’s when those sneaky hedgies do it) so I very quickly unhedged this to fly free BTC jan 12 40.5c .58
The biotech Fuzzy experiment behaving well today, driving fresh new highs across the board.
Scrolling through my watchlists looking for some #Fuzzy candidates. Here’s an interesting one.
Going out to Jan 2019 a 23/23/20 is only 3.55. Max loss 6.55 with 53 weeks to go. With the crazy premiums in this thing you could almost have that risk covered in 5 or 6 weeks. Then…let it ride un-hedged as a freebie. Otherwise, just 12 cents a week to cover a trip to zero…
SIG #FallingKnife
Didn’t see this was filled earlier.
Sold $SIG 7/20 35 put @ 1.35.
#SyntheticStock – Nice base being built here and entering a squeeze. Adding small in the only account without biotech exposure.
Sold AGN JAN 18 2019 175.0 Puts @ 18.73
Bought AGN JAN 18 2019 175.0 Calls @ 18.78
Bought AGN JAN 18 2019 170.0 Puts @ 16.57
This gives a net debit of 16.62 for the Jan 2019 position. Add the 5 point max downside and get a max loss possibility of 21.62. Based on that, and the 53 weeks remaining in the trade I only need to average about 41 cents per week in sales to cover the absolute worst case scenario.
So:
Sold AGN JAN 19 2018 180.0 Calls @ .73
#SPXcampaign Sold to Open $SPX Feb 9th 2660/2635 put spreads for 1.55.
#Fuzzy – Still no position but getting perky.
Jan 2020 20/20/18 #SyntheticStock only requires 3.5 cents per week to cover core and max loss. Hmmmm…
#shortcallspreads TSLA
Sold Feb. 16 375/385 for 1.75, stock at 334
#ShortStrangles – Clearing out another strangle. Looking at a possible #Fuzzy on this one if it drops a little more.
Bought to Close AVGO FEB 2 2018 250.0/290.0 Strangle @ 3.15 (sold for 5.00)
STO July 180 puts @2.15 with stock trading at 219, Drinking alcohol is not going out of style.
Firing up Coinbase right now LOL.
Was pretty busy with the day job this morning. Just aren’t getting much for opportunities for entering these trades. Since I’m very low on open #VXXGame positions, followed @optioniceman and @ramie77 making a few trades myself this morning.
STO $SVXY Jan 19 $110 puts @ $0.62
STO $SVXY Jan 26 $95 puts @ $0.60
STO $SVXY Feb 9 $75 puts @ $0.55
STO $SVXY Feb 16 $85 puts @ $1.22
#SyntheticStock – Has to turn around at some point but doesn’t look like anytime soon. This week’s short calls look safe so selling next week.
Sold REGN JAN 19 2018 380.0 Calls @ 1.80
Initial trade required 90 cents a week to cover everything.
#ShortStrangles – Not liking the way this one is acting. It might bounce here…or not. Taking a tiny winner.
Bought to Close NTES JAN 26 2018 325.0/400.0 Strangle @ 5.48 (sold for 6.20)
#shortput
$FB STO 1/26 177.5/185 BUPS @ 1.40 Earnings 1/31
#spxcampaign
$SPX BTO 1/19 2765/2785 BUCS @ 1.90 Thank you @jeffcp66
$SPX STO 2/23 2550/2650 BUPS @ 5.80 Thank you @alsumde
#spxcampaign Cleanup Getting out earlier than usual ;-}
$SPX BTC 1/26 2765/2740 BECS @ 11.50 STO @ 1.90
$SPX BTC 2/2 2775/2750 BECS @ 10 STO @ 1.50
$SPX BTC 1/19 2765/2740 BECS @ 6.50 STO @ 1.50
Jan 10 #fuzzy
COST #FuzzyBear was closed at the low this morning for $1370 net profit
QQQ 45 new QQQ Fuzzies (multiple accounts) Feb 162/162/159 @ between 1.60-1.70 currently unhedged
#SyntheticShort – With VXX going away I’m closing this short down. No where to roll the short puts and a big volatility spike might not leave time for it to come back down. Turned out pretty good since I had fewer short puts than synthetic short stock. Re-load on next UVXY split…
Sold to Close 13 VXX Jan 2019 50/50/55 synthetics and Bought to Close 9 VXX JAN 18 2019 28.0 Puts
Net gain on each synthetic of 3.85. Not great but worth the margin for sure…
BTC MU Jan12’18 45c for 0.06, STO was 0.37. Thanks to @smasty160 and Jim Cramer lol
#ShortStrangles – Last time I got involved with this one it was screaming higher but worked out ok. Looks like I’ll be rolling this into an earnings trade. Big roll of short put to try to corral this thing.
Rolled ISRG JAN 12 2018 400.0 Put to JAN 12 2018 425.0 Put @ 8.60 credit
Position is now 425/400 inverted @ 25.95 for Friday.
Anything between the strikes is a small winner…but with all the premium I’ll probably roll to earnings week and see what happens.
#vix
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/is-the-vix-being-gamed-a-sudden-swoon-has-traders-talking-again
#spxcampaign
STO SPX 28 FEB 18 2625/2525 BuPS @5.10
#spxcampaign
STO SPX 23 FEB 18 2635/2535 BuPS @5.00
#spxcampaign
STO SPX 23 FEB 18 2630/2530 BuPS @5.00
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