Mama Cash Trading Saga

It wasn’t my intention but I ended up with an impressive collection of falling knives today: AMZN, GOOGL, LABU, NFLX, NVDA, PANW – all beautiful trades from last week that didn’t fare so well today. In the win column, I covered the full debit paid for my SSO unbalanced diagonals by collecting four rounds of premium. This is a first for me so I’m declaring a small victory on a tough day.

June 25 (anniversary of Custer’s Last Stand, plus smasty BD :) )

A lot of trades today, rolling down short calls. I started the week this morning with $22,516 in short call premium to collect. That provided a cushion for today, but of course it’s not a 100% hedge.

1. AMZN rolled the 1745 calls down to 1720 for this week, collecting $1661 on the original calls and another $7.25 on the new one.
2. Closed the SPX #UndieBear for $5090 profit, if you add Thursday’s $1290 profit onto this, that’s $6380 in 3 days. This was a small 2×1.
3. GS and QQQ: got the butterfly fill on my Put In/Out trades from about 10 days ago. This locks in partial profit and cuts risk on them. I start with a skip-strike in-and-out spread, then look to butterfly it w/ a broken wing for half the price of the first spread.
4. MU rolled down calls from 62 to 57.5 (25 delta) for $1523 profit on the original ones and an add’l $376 on the new.
5. TSLA closed out the put fly and put spread for around $80 profit I think, wanted to simplify book this morning.
6. SPY #Saf-T rolled Wed calls out to next wed, collected $1536 on this week’s calls. My protective puts on #Saf-T are up a collective $32,800. They are sentries for me right now.
7. MCD added a put diag to my #Undie to balance deltas and bring in some premium for next week, cuts risk.

Don’t get me wrong, big losses across the board here, but all these trades are easy for keeping your head on straight. Just collect the hedges and reset.

Sue

Taking off GUSH rolled positions

For an overall profit. I probably would have normally rode these horses a little longer but I have several other positions in this ticker in Sep and Dec so lightening the exposure.
Bought to close $GUSH Jul 20 50 calls @ .42–a rollout from Jun 45 calls. Overall profit .76.
Bought to close $GUSH Aug 17 47 calls @ 1.70–a rollout from Jul 45 calls. Overall profit .65.
I’ll take whatever profits I can on a day like today.

@fibwizard Looks like your indicators…

@fibwizard

Looks like your indicators for SPX predicted this down move.
I wish they would be wrong, but it is what it is… 🙂

SOXL

#ShortPuts #IRA – Adding one at lowest available strike.

Sold SOXL NOV 16 2018 65.0 Put @ 3.20

CELG

BTC, July 20, 95 calls @.10 cents.

#shortputs SLD LABU Jul06’18 $85…

#shortputs

SLD LABU Jul06’18 $85 PUT 1.00

UVXY call spread

Sold $UVXY Jul 6 15/25 BeCS @ .50

AAPL put spread

Sold $AAPL Jul 27 175/170 BuPS @ .95. Went in the Jul 27 weekly to avoid earnings the following week.

CELG

STO January 2019, 95 calls @2.40

That’s a red day, first…

That’s a red day, first chance to look at the market.

So lots of #pietrades are now ITM but still have 3-4 days left. The only one that looks like it needs to covert to CC is MU, down 10 points in a week. Will be quicker to take assignment at cost basis of 58.44 and work it back with calls. Others are still ATM so will let more time value evaporate before doing anything with them. Will update as I adjust.

TWTR #Longstock Stopped out of…

TWTR #Longstock Stopped out of TWTR at 44.17. Basis 40.99

Down we go

#VIXIndicator has passed an intraday warning level for the first time since the most recent Warning fired on May 29th. Any close above 17.21 will be another warning… which could also be a capitulation low… hard to tell with these secondary warnings. So far the LOD is the lowest point on the S&P since May 31st.

ROKU #longstock Stopped out of…

ROKU #longstock Stopped out of my long stop position at 42.72. Sold June 29th 41 Put @ .55 for a possible re-entry.

UVXY

#BearCallSpreads – Sold UVXY JAN 18 2019 20.0/30.0 Bear Call Spreads @ .91

NVDA

#LongCalls #LEAPS – Doing a cautious roll down this week for a possible double dip…

Rolled NVDA JUN 29 2018 260.0 Calls to JUN 29 2018 250.0 Calls @ .90 credit (3.62 total now)

#coveredcalls ROKU Bought to close…

#coveredcalls
ROKU Bought to close June 29 46 call @ .40. Sold last Thursday for 1.28
TWTR Bought to close June 29th call @ .20. Sold last Friday for .50.
Looking to resell them again if or when they go green.

#fallingknife maybe CCL Carnival Cruise…

#fallingknife maybe CCL

Carnival Cruise line down almost 10% after earnings

#shortputs #coveredputs FB Sold June…

#shortputs #coveredputs FB
Sold June 29, 190 put for .52, short FB stock due to assignment

ABBV short puts

Sold $ABBV Nov 16 75 puts @ 1.44.
#FallingKnife

CELG

#CoveredCalls #IRA – Sold CELG JAN 18 2019 95.0 Calls @ 2.46

Econ Calendar for week of 6/25/18

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