$UVXY #ShortCalls – being cautious but not missing an opportunity. Short medium and long term bets.
Sold UVXY Jan 15 2016 110.0 Calls @ 0.22 – next week
Sold 1 UVXY Jan 29 2016 80.0 Call @ 2.09 – a couple of weeks and 100% OTM
Sold 1 UVXY Jun 17 2016 80.0 Call @ 10.40 – top of the chain
Sold 1 UVXY Jan 20 2017 170.0 Call @ 11.60 – a year out and top of the chain
$NUGT $DUST – both are on the move. Some near term and long term bets:
Sold NUGT(Weekly) Jan 22 2016 45.0 Calls @ 0.25
Sold DUST Feb 19 2016 10.0 Puts @ 0.75
Sold 1 NUGT Jun 17 2016 72.0 Call @ 2.60
$FB #ShortStock – Bought to Cover 100 FB short stock @ 99.74. Was assigned on a Short FB Nov 20 2015 100.0 Call and just now was able to cover profitably.
FB will probably now drop to 95 ….
Still short some FB Jun 17 2016 70.0 Puts which look fine for now
$NUGT #CoveredCalls – Sold NUGT Jan 15 2016 40.0 Calls @ 0.15. These expire in 6 days and the stock is not even to 30 yet
$UVXY #ShortCalls #OptionLadder – Sold these on the open. UVXY was over 39 pre-market, but opened calmer than I thought.
Sold 1 UVXY Feb 05 2016 66.0 Call @ 2.56
Sold 1 UVXY Feb 12 2016 66.0 Call @ 2.97
Sold 1 UVXY Feb 19 2016 66.0 Call @ 3.80
These expire Friday and are paired with long stock. I would welcome assignment.
Sold 2 UVXY Jan 08 2016 43.0 Calls @ 0.55
Sold 2 UVXY Jan 08 2016 44.0 Calls @ 0.55
$CMG #ShortPuts – Added to a couple of (very) speculative positions
Sold 1 CMG Jan 08 2016 420.0 Put @ 4.20
Sold CMG Jan 08 2016 395.0 Puts @ 0.60
Both expire (hopefully) on Friday.
NFLX – someone lit a fire under NFLX (up 9). I’m glad I’m short more puts than calls.
The $DJIA just dropped to a new LOD however.
Wacky market 🙂
$KOLD #ShortCalls – Sold KOLD Feb 19 2016 220.0 Calls @ 4.20
$UVXY #ShortCalls – Sold these on the open. Wasn’t sure UVXY was going to top out at 34 yet again, but it did.
Sold 1 UVXY Feb 05 2016 66.0 Call @ 2.26
Sold 1 UVXY Feb 12 2016 66.0 Call @ 2.66
Sold 1 UVXY Feb 19 2016 66.0 Call @ 3.20
All these expire Friday and are paired with long stock
Sold 2 UVXY Jan 08 2016 40.0 Calls @ 0.65
Sold 2 UVXY Jan 08 2016 41.0 Calls @ 0.60
Sold 2 UVXY Jan 08 2016 42.0 Calls @ 0.55
$VXX #ShortCalls – Sold VXX JAN 15 2016 26.0 Calls @ 0.38. Even the early December VXX spike petered out at 24.20.
On that same spike UVXY got to 43.
$NUGT #ShortCalls #Weeklys – Sold NUGT Jan 29 2016 40.0 Calls @ 0.55
$CMG #ShortPuts #ScalpTrade – Sold CMG Jan 08 2016 395.0 Puts @ 0.35 with the stock at 440. These expire Friday
UVXY #ShortCalls – new strike prices up to 66 today in all the Feb cycles for UVXY. Sold some so I can watch them and know when the price goes up.
Sold 1 UVXY(Weekly) Feb 05 2016 66.0 Call @ 1.90
Sold 1 UVXY(Weekly) Feb 12 2016 66.0 Call @ 2.25
Sold 1 UVXY Feb 19 2016 66.0 Call @ 2.86
$UVXY #ShortCalls – Sold UVXY Jan 08 2016 75.0 Calls @ 0.15. Adding to my position.
Now only 4 1/2 days until expiration. Tick Tock.
Check out the 60 minute chart. Today’s 34 high is about equal to the 12/18/15 high right around the same level. Resistance maybe?
$CMG #ShortPuts – Back to the well again on this stock – Sold 1 CMG Jan 15 2016 375.0 Put @ 1.25
$SVXY #ShortPuts – I actually don’t want any more stock, but not passing up a 10% return on cash for a six month option.
Sold 1 SVXY Jun 17 2016 30.0 Put @ 3.10
$NFLX #ShortPuts – already being short the Jan 122.86 and 125.71 Calls, and wanting to encourage the stock to stay down for the next two weeks, I sold the following this morning –
Sold NFLX Jan 08 2016 90.0 Puts @ 0.15
Sold NFLX Jan 08 2016 95.0 Puts @ 0.33
Sold NFLX Jan 15 2016 90.0 Puts @ 0.53
$UVXY #ShortCalls – sold these at to the open. All expire Friday –
Sold UVXY Jan 08 2016 55.0 Calls @ 0.26
Sold UVXY Jan 08 2016 60.0 Calls @ 0.16
Sold UVXY Jan 08 2016 65.0 Calls @ 0.13
Sold UVXY Jan 08 2016 70.0 Calls @ 0.11
Sold UVXY Jan 08 2016 75.0 Calls @ 0.11
Sold UVXY Jan 08 2016 80.0 Calls @ 0.11
#OptionsExpiration #Weeklys #Dec31 #EndOfYear – One last week with 100% of the short Options sold expiring with 100% of the max Profit.
I love selling premium, and I love weekly expirations.
CMG (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 400 Puts
KSU (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 75 Calls (Covered)
NUGT (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 35 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 53 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 54 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 65 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 70 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 71 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 20 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 56 Calls (Covered)
WYNN (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 64.5 Puts (Covered)
XOP (Weekly) Dec 31 2015 31.5 Calls (Covered)
Happy New Year everyone
$UVXY #ShortCalls – Sold UVXY Mar 18 2016 165.0 Calls @ 1.71. Highest available strike price for this month.
$TSLA #ShortPuts – Bought to close 1 TSLA Jan 15 2016 140.0 Put @ 0.01.
Originally sold 11/05/2014 at 10.40
$KOLD – I’m now the bid “at a nickel” on several of the short puts I sold in this name yesterday. I’ll keep these as GTC orders until Jan 8th. If they have not filled by then, I’ll cancel the orders and gut out the last week until expiration.
Tomorrow is the last trading day of 2015. Made money overall and I hope you all (or y’all) did too.
$KSU #CoveredCalls – Sold KSU Dec 31 2015 75.0 Calls @ 0.35. These expire tomorrow
$KOLD – the high bids have vanished for the KOLD Jan Puts I sold yesterday, except for (surprisingly) the 114 Puts (1 Bid by 2 ask). Whoever hits the bid first wins!!
@GG and @DeBeers are going at it over on SMM. I’ll copy it here incase the post gets removed
“@GreenGhost $BA -In order:
1. I am insulting the zero hedge drivel–not you
2. When you demonstrate your knowledge of the supply chain, I’ll be glad to recognize it
3. Ford never took money and i never said they did.
4. One stock is necessary to the defense of the country and one (GM ) isn’t.
5. Any day, any time you wish to compare either due dil or stock returns bring it on. You can change your SMM name as many times as you are forced to but you are still an over bearing bully and it won’t work on me.
6. And, FYI oil has another leg down before the rebound which will come as soon as there are significantly fewer players”
$BOIL #ShortCalls #NatGas – Along with my short Puts on KOLD, I also sold some calls on BOIL.
Sold BOIL Jan 15 2016 23.0 Calls @ 0.30
Sold BOIL Jan 15 2016 24.0 Calls @ 0.30
Sold BOIL Jan 15 2016 25.0 Calls @ 0.30
These expire in a bit more than 2 weeks.
$KOLD #ShortPuts #NatGas – some of these may be assigned in about 2 1/2 weeks, but since I am short some Feb and May 136/140 calls, it’s all good.
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 114.0 Put @ 2.40
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 115.0 Put @ 2.30
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 116.0 Put @ 3.20
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 117.0 Put @ 2.70
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 118.0 Put @ 3.90
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 119.0 Put @ 4.10
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 120.0 Put @ 4.30
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 121.0 Put @ 4.70
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 122.0 Put @ 4.90
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 123.0 Put @ 5.20
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 124.0 Put @ 5.50
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 125.0 Put @ 5.80
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 126.0 Put @ 6.20
Sold 1 KOLD Jan 15 2016 127.0 Put @ 6.60
These are horribly illiquid so sales need to execute on the opening on a big down day, like these did.
$GMCR @ShortPuts – Bought to close GMCR Jan 15 2016 50.0 Puts @ 0.01. Sold on 07/08/2015 @ 1.19.
$SVXY #CoveredCalls – I have been selling these strikes for several weeks. They have all expired so far.
Sold SVXY Dec 31 2015 53.0 Calls @ 0.50.
Sold SVXY Dec 31 2015 54.0 Calls @ 0.26.
Both sold against Long stock purchased below the strike prices. These expire in 4 days.
$UVXY #ShortCalls – Sold 1 UVXY Feb 19 2016 60.0 Call @ 2.80. Highest available strike price
$BOIL #ShortCalls – sold all the following
BOIL Feb 19 2016 22.0 Calls @ 0.90
BOIL Mar 18 2016 24.0 Calls @ 1.00
BOIL Jun 17 2016 26.0 Calls @ 1.40
Paired with Short June Puts already on the books
#OptionsExpiration #Dec24 Weeklys – Nice Christmas present for a short trading week. No assignments.
— Expired —
CMG (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 420 Puts
NUGT (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 35 Calls (Covered)
NUGT (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 36 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 41 Puts
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 53 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 54 Calls
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 65 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 66 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 70 Calls (Covered)
SVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 71 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 20 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 20.5 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 21 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 21.5 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 22 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 22.5 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 23.5 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 24.5 Puts
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 43 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 43.5 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 44 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 44.5 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 45 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 46 Calls (Covered)
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 55 Calls
UVXY (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 70 Calls
WYNN (Weekly) Dec 24 2015 57 Puts (Covered)
$FB $XOP $XLE – yesterday it was NFLX underperforming on a strong day. Today it’s FB. Meanwhile XOP and XLE are coming off their recent lows in a big way
$VRX #ShortPuts – another stock #CNBC said could go to zero
10/21/15 – Sold 1 VRX Jan 15 2016 55.0 Put @ 5.30. Two hours later Sold another @ 9.20.
Today – Bought 2 VRX Jan 15 2016 55.0 Puts @ 0.05. Still almost a month until expiration.
$UVXY #ShortPuts #VXXGame – these are paired with short calls and a lot of long SVXY stock (if UVXY falls, SVXY rises)
Sold UVXY(Weekly) Dec 24 2015 24.5 Puts @ 0.13 – these expire at 1:00pm tomorrow
Sold UVXY(Weekly) Jan 8 2016 20.0 Puts @ 0.41
Sold UVXY Jan 15 2016 20.0 Puts @ 0.85
Sold 1 UVXY(Weekly) Jan 22 2016 20.0 Put @ 1.22
Sold 1 UVXY(Weekly) Jan 29 2016 20.0 Put @ 1.63
$SVXY #CoveredCalls #VXXGame – SVXY is climbing toward resistance at 54, so I’m trying to top tick some covered calls
Sold SVXY Feb 19 2016 65.0 Calls @ 1.45
Sold SVXY Feb 19 2016 70.0 Calls @ 0.60
Sold SVXY Mar 18 2016 70.0 Calls @ 1.40
Sold SVXY Jun 17 2016 80.0 Calls @ 1.95
Sold SVXY Jun 17 2016 85.0 Calls @ 1.30
$UVXY #ShortPuts #VXXGame – Sold UVXY Feb 19 2016 13.0 Puts @ 0.38. Late fill at 4:15 and my first trade in Feb for this stock.
As Dan noted today $WFM is breaking out today. I have several longer term #FallingKnife trades in this stock on the books
$NFLX – it’s not a sign of strength when NFLX is down a fraction when the DJIA is up 180 points
$UVXY #ShortPuts – hoping that the drop in UVXY translates into a rally for SVXY –
Sold 1 UVXY(Weekly) Jan 22 2016 20.0 Put @ 1.13
Sold 1 UVXY(Weekly) Jan 29 2016 20.0 Puts @ 1.55
$UVXY #ShortPuts – hoping that the drop in UVXY translates into a rally for SVXY –
Sold UVXY(Weekly) Jan 08 2016 20.0 Puts @ 0.35
Sold UVXY(Monthly) Jan 15 2016 20.0 Puts @ 0.73
$SVXY #CoveredCalls #IRA – Sold SVXY Feb 19 2016 65.0 Calls @ 1.25
$CMG #ShortPuts #Weeklys #ScalpTrade – Sold CMG Dec 24 2015 420.0 Puts @ 0.30 when the stock gapped down to 500 this morning.
These expire at 1:00pm on Thursday.
$SVXY #CoveredCalls – Sold SVXY Jun 17 2016 80.0 Calls @ 1.80. Adding to my position.
$GMCR #ShortPuts – Bought to close GMCR Jun 17 2016 30.0 Puts @ 0.01. Out 6 months early.
Sold on 11/30/2015 @ 1.30
$CMG #ShortPuts – Sold CMG Dec 31 2015 400.0 Puts @ 1.00. Short week this week and next PLUS 100 points OTM
$SVXY #CoveredCalls #VXXGame – Sold SVXY Jun 17 2016 80.0 Calls @ 1.70 adding to my position
#MarketHours #OptionsExpiration – the market closes at 1:00 on Thursday. So only 2 1/2 days until the next expiration.
Sell. Sell. Sell!!!!
$SVXY #CoveredCalls #VXXGame – Sold SVXY Jun 17 2016 80.0 Calls @ 1.60 adding to my position
$KOLD – this is one of those instances where I should have just let them exercise the short 200 calls I had. About now I’d be getting a call from the margin department telling me that there is no stock to borrow and I would have to cover the short. Sigh!!
$UVXY #ShortPuts #ScalpTrade – Sold UVXY Dec 24 2015 24.5 Puts @ 0.11. These expire Thursday.
In this account, paired with short Dec 24 70 calls, which interestingly are not at zero bid.
$SVXY #CoveredCalls #VXXGame – Sold SVXY Jun 17 2016 80.0 Calls @ 1.55. Partial fill on a bigger order.
$SVXY #ShortPuts – Sold SVXY DEC 24 2015 41.0 Puts @ 0.46 on a market order. These expire in 4 days with the strike price below the recent low
$SVXY #ShortPuts – Bought to close SVXY Dec 18 2015 50.0 Puts @ 1.85 to avoid assignment.
Originally sold in April at 3.90.
$SVXY #ShortPuts – Bought to close 1 SVXY Dec 18 2015 50.0 Put @ 1.95 to avoid assignment. Originally sold in July at 3.70.
$IYT #ShortPuts – Bought to close IYT DEC 18 2015 135.0 Puts @ 1.95 to avoid assignment. Originally sold at 3.18
$KOLD #ShortCalls – Sold 1 KOLD May 20 2016 320.0 Call @ 23. Adding to my position at the top of the chain.
$UVXY #CoveredCalls #VXXGame – sold all these using market orders. Short trading week and the strike prices are above the recent peak.
Sold 1 UVXY Dec 24 2015 44.0 Call @ 1.29
Sold 1 UVXY Dec 24 2015 44.5 Call @ 1.28
Sold 1 UVXY Dec 24 2015 45.0 Call @ 1.24
Sold 1 UVXY Dec 24 2015 46.0 Call @ 1.10
$UVXY #ShortPuts – sold the following to replace the strike 27 puts I just bought back at a penny.
Sold UVXY Dec 24 2015 23.5 Puts @ 0.14
Sold UVXY Dec 24 2015 24.5 Puts @ 0.29
These expire Thursday in a short trading week.
$UVXY #ShortCalls #VXXGame – Sold UVXY JAN 15 2016 85.0 Calls @ 1.50.
$DOV #ShortPuts – Bought to close DOV Dec 18 2015 60.0 Puts @ 0.50 to avoid assignment.
Originally sold at 1.30
$UVXY #RiskManagement – Bought to close UVXY Dec 18 2015 27.0 Puts @ 0.01.
Originally Sold on 12/14/2015 at an average of 0.50.
$UVXY #RiskManagement – Bought to close UVXY Dec 18 2015 26.5 Puts @ 0.01.
Originally sold on 12/14/15 at 0.35/0.40/0.45
$SVXY #ShortPuts – probably didn’t need to spend the money but it was a big position
Bought to close 10 SVXY Dec 18 2015 45.0 Puts @ 0.05.
Sold these on 04/22/15 @ 2.95
$SVXY #CoveredCalls – sold these on the opening
SVXY MAR 18 2016 70.0 Calls @ 1.80
SVXY MAR 18 2016 71.0 Calls @ 1.60
SVXY MAR 18 2016 72.0 Calls @ 1.40
$UVXY #ShortPuts – all these strike prices are below the all time low
Sold UVXY Dec 18 2015 23.0 Puts @ 0.33 – These expire in two days
Sold UVXY Dec 24 2015 21.5 Puts @ 0.41 – These expire next Thursday
Sold UVXY Dec 24 2015 21.0 Puts @ 0.33 – Short trading week
$SVXY #CoveredCalls #VXXGame – Sold SVXY Mar 18 2016 75.0 Calls @ 1.15
$KOLD down almost as much
Sell the news IMHO
$NUGT #ScalpTrade – Sold NUGT Dec 18 2015 35 Calls @ 0.17. These expire Friday and are 9 points OTM
$NFLX #ScalpTrade – Sold NFLX Dec 18 2015 105.0 Puts @ 0.13. Still trying to convince NFLX to pull back.
$SVXY #CoveredCalls – Sold SVXY Mar 18 2016 75.0 Calls @ 1.10. I couldn’t let the stock rally all the way back from 43 without doing SOMETHING 🙂
#Markets – Interesting reading this morning on ZH. While the S&P 500 closed the day higher by nearly a half of a percent, there were just 810 Advancing Issues on the NYSE vs. 2326 Declining Issues. As a percentage of the total, the Advancing Issues equated to just 25.8% of issues. If that sounds low, you are correct. Going back to 1965, it is in fact the 3rd lowest percentage of Advancing stocks of ANY day that the S&P 500 closed higher. In other words, out of 6,702 Up days since 1965, yesterday ranked 6,699th in terms of breadth.
$NFLX #ShortPuts #DoubleDip – in an attempt to convince the stock to stay below 120, I’m replacing the short puts I covered this morning with Short Dec 18 109.0 Puts at 0.23.
I don’t see the stock breaking below the 115 low set on Monday’s pullback or breaking the 50dayMA currently at 113.84
These expire Friday
$NFLX #ShortPuts – back on 06/15/2015 I Sold 1 NFLX Dec 18 2015 580.0 Put @ 39.70 protecting some short December 840.0 Calls.
I bought to close the resulting NFLX Dec 18 2015 82.86 Puts at a penny this morning. Still waiting to cover the Dec 120 Calls by Friday.
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