#LongCalls #LEAPS – Booking full position double sales and replacing with a tighter 4×10 ratio…
Bought to Close AMAT JAN 11 2019 37.0 Calls @ .05 (sold for .32)
Bought to Close AMAT JAN 18 2019 39.0 Calls @ .07 (sold for .31)
Sold AMAT FEB 1 2019 36.0 Calls @ .65
#ironcondor DIA #shortstrangles SQ
DIA Sold Feb. 15, 215/220/250/255 for 1.36
SQ sold Feb. 15, 45/75 strangle for 1.48
#coveredputs PM #coveredcalls WYNN
PM Sold Jan. 18, 66 put for .56, woulda, coulda, shoulda sold it yesterday
WYNN Sold Jan. 18, 120 call for .60
#SPX1dte Sold to Open $SPX Jan 7th 2440/2460-2590/2610 condors for 1.10.
#shortstrangles #closing GM MS
Closed two Jan. 18 strangles for very small change after today’s rally, both were losers yesterday.
#LongLEAPs #SyntheticCoveredCalls
Sold $TQQQ Jan 11th 40 calls for .85
Sold $SQ Jan 11th 61 calls for 1.20.
Bought to close $FB Jan 18 125/120 BuPS @ .36. Sold for 1.15 on 12/31.
Bought to close $BA Jan 18 290/280 BuPS @ .43. Sold for 2.20 on 12/27.
Buh Bye NFLX #CostBasisReduction Winner
My NFLX saga ends today…with a bottle of champagne after the close. After the last earnings report when NFLX soared, I got the “great” idea to buy 100 shares at $358 and sell DITM calls for a guaranteed win. Within days there was a massive crash. I took inspiration from seeing @fuzzballl accomplish significant cost basis reduction with patience and perseverance. I vowed I would stick with this until it was profitable. Every single week I sold calls, and bought put butterflies (BWB debit flies). Most of the time they brought in nice credits, there were a few weeks that were debit rolls (debit rolls would step back cost basis those weeks), but I steadily took Cost Basis from $358 to $272. Today I was able to close out the full position for a net $1547 gain.
#SPX1dte Sold $SPX Feb 2250/2270-2730/2750 condors for 3.00. Will close at or near 50%, or 1.50.
Fed minutes, Wednesday at 2pm ET.
Link to calendar: https://us.econoday.com/byweek.asp?day=7&month=1&year=2019&cust=us&lid=0
#LongCalls #LongPuts #LEAPS – Rolling some and booking some….
EWW: Precautionary…
Bought to Close EWW JAN 4 2019 42.5 Calls @ .15 (sold for .36)
REGN: Selling against ITM bull put spreads…
Rolled REGN JAN 4 2019 385.0 Call to FEB 1 2019 405.0 Call @ .09 credit (should be prior to earnings)
TNA: Booking over sales early just in case the rally continues…
Bought to Close TNA JAN 11 2019 50.0 Calls @ .26 (sold for .90)
Bought to Close TNA JAN 11 2019 55.0 Calls @ .03 (sold for .82)
UVXY: Rolling short puts…long puts finally starting to help. Added a couple BeCS also…
Rolled UVXY JAN 4 2019 80.0 Puts to FEB 1 2019 72.5 Puts @ .65 credit
Rolled UVXY JAN 4 2019 81.0 Puts to FEB 15 2019 70.0 Puts @ .26 credit
Sold UVXY JAN 18 2019 80.0/85.0 Bear Call Spreads @ 1.17
WYNN: Booking over sales early just in case the rally continues…
Bought to Close WYNN JAN 11 2019 114.0/124.0 Bear Call Spreads @ .85 (sold for 1.05)
#CoveredCalls – Adding one here. This is against some of my lower basis stock…
Sold TQQQ FEB 15 2019 44.0 Call @ 1.35
#SPX1dte SPX hit my upside stop (expected move breached the 2520 short calls), so I exited on the pull back.
BTC $SPX Jan 4th 2520/2540 call spreads for 1.70. Condors sold yesterday for 1.25. Puts will expire, or close for .05.
I’ll be selling another 1-dte for Monday expiration. I’m looking for longer term roll options to replace today’s stop.
EOG STO the 21 DTE 97/98 ccs for 0.23. Cb now 14.41 against a 120/120 and 125/126 put #fuzzy
EXPE STO the 21 DTE 117/118 ccs for 0.20 credit. Cb now 9.43 against a 110/110 put #fuzzy.
It rained over the weekend and my family was busy so I watched a bunch of tasty trade re-runs. 2 things I forgot about. They did a section on defined risk and looked at the number of times tested credit spread returned back to the level you placed the spread. It was less than 2:10 times, actually I think as they looked across multiple occurrences and it was much lower around 2%. So gave me an idea for credit spreads and #spycraft which I will start up again next week after some CC are called away.
I will be very mechanical in adjusting credit spreads now. As soon as the short strike is breached, I will delta hedge it to neutral and create a back spread. Odds improve that if it is breached will not return to that level so at that point you have a directional trade and might as well take advantage if it.
What this means is that if the short strike is breached, I will buy back half the # of shorts calls/puts as the original credit spread thereby creating a 2:1 back ratio. Then if we keep moving in that direction you get the boost from the directional kick.
Probably best to set these up 21-45 DTE so you have some room. A weekly probably would not work as well once ratioed because of the gamma effects close to expiration.
#Jobs Much higher than expected.
+312,000 non-farm payroll jobs, vs. 176K expected
Unemployment at 3.9%, up 0.2%
U6 unemployment at 7.6%, unchanged
Wages up 0.4%, 3.2% year over year
Labor force participation 63.1%, up by 0.2
November revised up from 155k to 176k
October revised up from 237K to 274k
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