Wife is already asleep, daughter…

Wife is already asleep, daughter has a friend over so looking at some possible trade ideas. Taking the ITM debit spread a step further here are some numbers to consider. Based on closing prices all 22 DTE so we are comparing apples to apples. TNA as example, this is leveraged but with excellent weekly premiums. 10 contracts on all to keep the numbers consistent. These are all about 6 points ITM on the call side or 6 points OTM for the puts.

50/60 vertical debit spread cost 8.95 for a 10 point spread at expiration. Max profit $1050. Max loss $8950 but this can be converted. 11.7% ROC for a 140.4% annualized return.

60 strike CC 58.22. Max profit $1780. Max loss 58,220 for 3% ROC or 36% annualized.

60 put requires full cash secured because leveraged. 54,471 at risk for $1020 max profit, 1.87% return or 22% annualized.

All could be rolled or hedged if needed.

I am going to experiment more with these, like the idea, the returns, limited risk and can be done in a smaller account. Also could set up a ladder for an income stream. Right now have ERX going, may add FAS and TNA in small contract size in a few weeks.

#fuzzy

Expiration

$SPX 2585/2610 What a year and it is only three months long.
Have a great Easter/Passover. Three days to enjoy on hopefully, a high note for all.
Thanks for all you help.

XBI

#Fuzzy – STO XBI Apr06’18 91 calls for 0.47.

Have a nice holiday everyone!

Have a nice long weekend

Back on Monday.

Happy Easter!

Enjoy the long weekend everyone! Resting up…16 underlyings with expirations next week. Gonna be fun!

This week in covered calls

Wednesday: BTC $BABA Apr 20 2.10 call for .35. Sold for 2.90 on Mar 15th.

Today:
BTC BABA Apr 13th 205 call for .20. Sold for 2.05 on Mar 6th.
STO BABA Apr 27th 200 call for 1.90
STO $FB Apr 27th 175 call for 1.60
STO $AAPL Apr 27th 180 call for 1.55

#CoveredCalls

RH roll

#Earnings #StrangleRoll
BTC $RH Mar 29th 91.5 calls for 4.30. Sold in 65/91.5 earnings strangle for 2.53 on Tuesday.
STO $RH Apr 20th 87.5/100 strangles for 4.535.

WFC

STO September 45 puts @ 1.08

STO October 40 puts @ .61

XBI strangle

Idea from TastyTrade
Sold $XBI May 18 75/96 strangles @ 1.85
XBI currently at 88.96

SPX puts sold

#SPXcampaign Sold $SPX Apr 27th 2460/2435 puts for 1.75.

This does not fit into my approach of selling at extremes, but it is the last hour of the week and I had not sold my standard second put spread. Since VIX has not dropped too much I am not assuming the big down days are over. I will sell some additional calls if we close higher. Or puts if we sell off into the close.

FAS Fuzzy

BTO 2020,63,63,61

Sold 6April 13,  65 calls @2.53

#pietrade BTC the ANDV 108…

#pietrade

BTC the ANDV 108 call 15 DTE for 0.25. Sold for .95. Part of a strangle. Leaving the 95 put on still has .70 left.

When I roll the put will convert to #jadelizard. I violated my own rule of selling naked calls on individual names as a recovery for the dip(s). Strangles on ETF’s and indexes are ok because the entire ETF will not be bought out by another company. I had to pay up when Berkshire bought heinz a few years ago so learned my lesson on uncovered calls on a single company. Will unwind UTX and NSC calls as soon as they decay a little, hopefully over the long weekend.

Sold Early SPX / SPX Campaign

Sold Early
#spxcampaign
$SPX BTC 3/29 2600/2625 at 2.00 STO at 1.60. At one time this trade down A LOT. Glad to close it at a small loss even though market looks strong. I am not strong! 😉

#spxcampaign
$SPX STO 4/13 2745/2720 BECS at 3.50 Thank you @jeffcp66

XBI # fuzzy

BTO January 2020, 88,88,86

STO April 91 calls, total cost of 12.35

EWW

#SyntheticStock – Forgot to do this til now: BTO EWW Jan17’20 52/52/50 synthetic for 5.00. Max loss would be 7.00, trade runs for 94 weeks so need 0.075 cents a week to break even. STO EWW Apr06’18 52 calls for 0.30. Been needing something long term and stress-free (I hope!). Thanks to @fuzzballl!!!

VXX

#BullPutSpreads – Closing the short side of BuPS sales that I sold to finance Jan 2019 BePS. I’ll leave the long side and maybe get lucky next week.

Bought to Close VXX APR 6 2018 40.5 Puts @ .05 (sold spread for .47)

#pietrades A bunch today since…

#pietrades A bunch today since this is effectively expiration day. But it is nice out, first day can wear shorts here so going outside as soon as all the trades execute, still working 1 order.

GM Rolled 38.5 CC 22 DTE to 29 DTE for 0.17 credit. CB now 38.33. Taking forever to work this one back, will just be happy to scratch it so I can use the money somewhere else. For those following, I am taking this off the #pietrade list for a while, weekly premiums are not good enough for as much as it is moving around and to prone to steel tariff tweets.

FAS today 65 CC to next week 64 CC for 1.58 credit. CB 62.07
FAS today 64 CC to next week for 1.59 credit. CB 61.11

LNG Apr. 6 to Apr. 13 55 CC down to 54 CC for 0.52 credit. CB 53.27

ANDV 95/108 15 DTE strangle looking good, probably roll Monday to new week but #jadelizard the call side.

ERX 21/26 long debit 8 DTE should expire for full profit next week. If for some reason stays below 26 will convert to #fuzzy. I can add another 9 months to the long call for $3 and can sell $2 in premium each week, kind of a no brainer. However, this is also part of a deep ITM #syntheticcoveredcall experiment so my plan is to actually roll it next week and re-establish the position. On a percentage basis looks like a 13.7% return every month with moderate risk but very little work. Potentially a 160% annualized return so this is worth trying. I think this is what Chuck Hughes does to get some of his high returns. Buy deep ITM call with almost no time value, then sell ITM call that has a decent amount of time value left. Gives 10-20% downside protection and can still make max profit. I will keep one of these running for a while and report the results as it unfolds. Cheaper way to play a CC or #fuzzy maybe.

NSC 131/143 strangle 15 DTE. It moved around so much still at break even. Hope some theta decay will make some profits this weekend. Earnings late April so will only roll the put side.

UTX 122/132 strangle 36 DTE. Had to adjust. Same problem as NSC. Will let some of the premium suck out of it then only roll the put side. Earnings late April or I may #jadelizard both so there is no risk to the upside.

Hoppy Easter as the kids say! Hope everyone has a good long weekend.

I am still showing paper losses from the SVXY implosion. My net liq. keeps going down because of all the adjusting, only 1 positive week since Feb 6 but it was a good one. However, once these all close will have a nice bump finally and the theta decay is huge now, close to 800 per day, just need a few days of not whipsawing so it makes a difference. Once everything closes in 1-3 weeks will at least be positive for March.

Cheers, Chris

REGN

#SyntheticStock – Been selling against this all the way down. It’s in a squeeze and attempting to get off the ground but seems to get rejected right around this level each time. Rolling up and out a little for now…

Rolled REGN APR 6 2018 340.0 Calls to APR 20 2018 350.0 Calls @ .40 credit

AZO

#BullCallSpreads – Letting this week’s expire so selling next week…cost basis reduction in the Jan Bull Call Spread…

Sold AZO APR 6 2018 660.0/690.0 Bear Call Spread @ 2.50

XBI

#SyntheticStock #IRA – Thanks @1strangealien for getting this one back on my radar. I’ll take a shot out in Jan.

Bought to Open XBI JAN 18 2019 88/88/86 Synthetic Stock @ 7.69 (filled better than mid)

Max loss of 9.69 with 42 weeks to run requiring 23 cents per week to cover.

So:

Sold XBI APR 6 2018 89.0 Calls @ .83

XOM

Rolled Mar 29 76/74 BuPS to May 4 76/73 .30 Db need to add call to try to come back with this one. #Fuzzy did not work so far
BTO May 4 76 1.08

FAS

#SyntheticStock – Getting the next sale going. Going out two weeks to give it a little room with much better premium with bank earnings cranking up. JPM on the 13th and MS GS and BAC the following week so premiums should be pretty sweet that week too.

Bought to Close FAS MAR 29 2018 65.5 Calls @ .03 (sold for .85 as a bonus week 🙂 )

Sold FAS APR 13 2018 65.0 Calls @ 2.15

#pietrades

LUV

#SyntheticStock – Looks safe this week so selling next week on this tiny pop…

Sold LUV APR 6 2018 57.5 Calls @ .54

XOM

#SyntheticStock – Next week’s sale…still a weak looking chart but starting to form a nice squeeze. Gonna see if I can “squeeze” in one more aggressive weekly before this thing rebounds and runs to glory (or not 🙂 ). Jumped the gun on it…could do a little better now.

Sold XOM APR 6 2018 74.0 Calls @ .60