Sold to open:
$NVDA Oct 4 90 put @ 1.44
$NVDA Oct 18 86 put @ 1.49
Strikes are below the swoon on August 5.
Monthly Archives: September 2024
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 543/545 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 541/546 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 546 Diagonal Put
APA WBA stock
Tiny Buys
APA at $26.00
WBA at $8.75
#FallingKnife
SPY Puts
Sold 1 SPY 09/05/2024 533/543 Bull Put Spread at $0.36 Credit
SPY Calls
Rolling 1 SPY Bear Call Spread out past the SPY September ex-dividend date.
Closed the SPY 09/06/2024 576/530 Bear Call Spread and sold 1 SPY 10/11/2024 576/535 Bear Call Spread ay $0.07 Credit.
Lowered the carry cost of the position $500
TQQQ,
STO October 18, $45 puts at 1.01
SLB Put
Sold 1 SLB 09/06/2024 40.5 Put at $0.09
#Tiny99PercentPuts
VXX Long term Puts
Bought VXX Jan 17 2025 24.0 Puts at $0.10.
135 days to expiration
#VXXContango
AVGO Puts
Sold 1 AVGO 130/139 Bull Put Spread at $0.46 Credit
#Earnings tomorrow
DLTR Puts
Sold 1 DLTR 09/06/2024 60.0 Put at $0.26
#Tiny99PercentPuts
Rolled the long put of my Bull Put spread out a week
Sold to close 1 DLTR 09/06/2024 65.0 Put at $2.22.
Replaced it with 1 DLTR 09/13/2024 55.0 Put at $0.18
#DamageControl
SPY Puts
Sold to close 1 SPY 09/04/2024 543.0 Put at $0.23 to avoid a total loss from expiration today
Replaced it with 1 long SPY 09/05/2024 535.0 Put at $0.21 for a $0.02 Credit on the roll.
Sold 1 SPY 09/05/2024 544.0 Put at $1.01 against the new long position
SPX 0-dte trades for 9/4
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX 5400/5420-5585/5605 condors for 1.35, IV 31.50%, deltas -.06 +.06
JOLT numbers released at 10am could throw a monkey in my wrench but I’m getting a decent width here so going with typical 6-delta sale.
Downside Warning in effect
#VIXindicator The high $VIX close on Tuesday signals a likelihood of lower indexes in the coming days or weeks.
SPY after the close
Sold 1 SPY 09/04/2024 546 Put at $0.33 – adding to my position
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 547 Diagonal Put – Sold on 08/28 at $0.48
SPY
And finally.
Sold SPY Sep 27 2024 525.0 Put @ 3.33
SPY
One more.
Sold SPY Oct 4 2024 525.0 Put @ 3.50
UVXY call spread
Sold to open $UVXY Sep 20 30/40 bear call spread @ 1.40
On the last leg down
For this week:
Sold 1 TQQQ 52/57 Bull Put Spread at $0.20 Credit
Sold 1 BA 145/150 Bull Put Spread at $0.24 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 80/70 Bear Call Spread at $0.32 Credit
For Next Week:
Sold 1 VXX Sep 13 2024 80/70 Bear Call Spread at $0.42 Credit
SPY
Selling near the 200 day.
Sold SPY Oct 11 2024 525.0 Put @ 4.00
Sold SPY Oct 18 2024 515.0 Put @ 3.60
Upside Warning canceled
#VIXindicator $VIX above 18.74… if we close above it we will be in Downside Warning.
This Upside Warning lasted three weeks and at the high last Monday was good for +217.19 on $SPX, or about +4%.
TQQQ,
BTC September 6, $60 puts at .81, sold at 1.16 because it was getting too close.
HAL SLB
Tiny Buys
HAL at $30.00
SLB at $42.00
#FallingKnife
TLT
Bought to Close TLT Sep 13 2024 93.5 Puts @ .09 (sold for .98)
Spreads for this week
Sold 1 GTLB 36/39 Bull Put Spread at $0.26 Credit
Sold 1 AVGO 134/143 Bull Put Spread at $0.47 Credit
Sold 1 DOCU 48/52 Bull Put Spread at $0.24 Credit
Sold 1 DLTR 65/72 Bull Put Spread at $0.68 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 79/57 Bear Call Spread at $0.27 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 74/60 Bear Call Spread at $0.28 Credit
Sold 1 MU 79/84 Bull Put Spread at $0.24 Credit
TQQQ, STO October 11, $50…
TQQQ, STO October 11, $50 puts at 1.09
Tiny Puts for this week
Sold 1 DG 75.0 Put at $0.06
Sold 1 BOIL 7.5 Put at $0.07
Sold 1 SOXL 28.0 Put at $0.08
Sold 1 TQQQ 57.0 Put at $0.10
Sold 1 DLTR 65.0 Put at $0.24
Sold 1 MU 85.0 Put at $0.31
GDXY QQQY JEPY IWMY SPYT SGOV BIL
#smallbuy
#dividends
BOT GDXY @18.27
BOT QQQY @36.12
BOT JEPY @43.41
BOT IWMY @36.50
BOT SPYT @19.48
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#parkingcash
#iratrades
#dividends
BOT SGOV @100.34
BOT BIL @91.45
#rolling
SOLD CALENDAR MARA 13 SEP 2024/6 SEP 2024 18 PUT @.23
CBOE extends pre-market SPX trading
Effective last week (I didn’t notice until this morning), SPX has only a 5-minute pause between pre-market and trading and the open. So you can trade pre-market until 9:25am ET.
SPX 0-dte for 9/3
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Sept 3rd 5540/5560-5685/5705 condors for 1.15, IV 22.11%, deltas -.06 +.05
Earnings 9/2 – 9/6
Economic Calendar 9/2 – 9/6
ISM, JOLT, PMI, August Jobs report
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