STO Dec 15 $75 put @ $1.80
STO Dec 22 $70 put @ $1.65
Was in a meeting so missed the last flush lower so couldn’t get the fills that @optioniceman got.
STO Dec 15 $75 put @ $1.80
STO Dec 22 $70 put @ $1.65
Was in a meeting so missed the last flush lower so couldn’t get the fills that @optioniceman got.
STO SVXY Nov 24 $85 puts @ $0.80
STO UVXY Dec 1 $22 calls @ $1.00
STO SVXY Dec 1 $80 puts @ $1.00
SVXY $60 puts
SVXY $65 puts
SVXY $80 puts
UVXY $17 calls
UVXY $21.5 calls
UVXY $25 calls
UVXY $35 calls
IWM $145.5/$140 put spreads
Also shortly before the close BTC Nov 13 SPX $2570/$2565 put spreads @ $0.50, sold for $0.85. It was always my plan to exit these before the weekend, but really did expect a bigger profit. Yesterday’s action and today’s choppiness kept a bid in these puts and they just didn’t decay as fast as I had wanted. Still have 2 other open put spreads.
Have a great weekend everyone.
On the small spike this afternoon.
STO SVXY Nov 17 $80 puts @ $0.41
STO $UVXY Nov 10 $17 calls @ $0.33, basically at today’s high, expires tomorrow.
If I’m wrong, only have to wait until tomorrow to know and roll it.
STO Nov 24 $24 calls @ $0.40
STO Nov 17 $2560/$2555 puts @ $0.85
At the open STO Dec 8 $60 puts @ $0.55
STO $C Nov 24 $71/$68 put spreads @ $0.50
BTO $RHT Dec 15 $120 calls @ $4.80
STO $SPX Nov 15 $2570/$2565 put spreads @ $0.75
STO $RCL Nov 17 $124/$120 puts spreads @ $0.33
A couple of small trades
STO Nov 17 $22 calls @ $0.33
STO Dec 8 $30 calls @ $0.50 (highest strike)
STO $SPX Nov 13 $2570/$2565 put spreads @ $0.85 small position
$SVXY $66 puts
$SVXY $72 puts
$SVXY $76 puts
$SVXY $85 puts
$SVXY $90 puts
$UVXY $18 calls
$UVXY $24 calls
$UVXY $27 calls
Finally a better expiration this week.
Everyone have a great weekend.
BTC Nov 3 $15 calls @ $.05 (sold for $1.39 as part of $15/$17 spread) with about 30 mins before the close. It was just toying with $15 all day and didn’t want to take a chance into the close.
STC Nov 3 $17 calls @ $0.14
These were part of a $15/$17 call spread. Took them off today while there was still value in them.
STO Nov 10 $21.5 calls @ $0.34
STO $SVXY Nov 10 $80 puts @ $0.33
STO Nov 24 $105 puts @ $.62
STO Nov 3 $85 puts @ $.33
Hey Jeff, love the background theme.
Made a couple of small trades at the open
STO Nov 3 $18 calls @ $.45
STO Nov 10 $25 calls @ $.35
$UVXY $17 calls
$UVXY $25 calls
Had a fun week.
$VIX dropping as expected, but /VX holding a bid so $UVXY and $SVXY not moving as much as you might expect.
Based on the good after hours earnings, I’m taking a shot.
STO UVXY Oct 27 $17 calls @ $0.52 expire tomorrow.
UVXY interesting trade made today. Someone bought 1250 Jan’18 $10 puts @ $0.82.
Tried to get a fill on a Nov 3 $100/$95 BuPS. Started @ @2.60 and kept dropping $.05 every couple of minutes. Killed the order when I got down to $2.30. Bid/Ask spread on those puts are huge, wanted to see if I could get a fill. The $100 put was almost ATM so any amount of calmness would have these expiring worthless.
STO Nov 17 $SPY $249/235 put spreads @ $0.83
STO Nov 10 $60 puts @ $0.50
STO $SVXY Nov 17 $55 puts @ $.50
STO Nov 17 $50 calls @ $.33
STO Nov 3 $76 puts @ $.40
STO Nov 10 $65 puts @ $.50
Missed the chance to trade the spike yesterday afternoon so making a couple of smallish trades this morning.
$SVXY $50 puts
That’s it, very few open positions.
STO Nov 3 $15/$17 calls spreads @ $.49, defined risk way of playing for further decrease over the next couple of weeks.
Nibbled
STO Oct 27 $25 calls @ $0.33
#OptionsExpiration
Been spending the week in Denver visiting my Mom so haven’t even looked at the market. Hope you all had a great week. This is all I have expiring.
SVXY $55 puts
Have a great weekend
Hey Guy’s, I’m going to be away from the market the rest of the day so posting these a few minutes early. Have a great weekend.
SVXY $60 puts
UVXY $40 calls
That’s all I have for this week, just not getting any opportunities to put on new positions.
@fuzzballl What is your current position with rolling strangles on $TLT?
#FlyingKnife (inverse of falling knife)
Check $TRN, might opportunity to sell calls, but they are very thin.
Hey Gang was away on friday and over the weekend. These were my expiring positions:
$SVXY $66 puts
$UVXY $31.5 calls
$UVXY $91 calls
$VXX $45 calls
$VXX $47.5 calls
Hope you all had a great weekend.
A couple of small trades
STO Oct 6 $UVXY $40 calls @ $0.45
STO Oct 13 $SVXY $55 puts @ $0.45
STO Oct 20 $SVXY $50 puts @ $0.45
Hope you all had a great Friday. @fuzzballl, as it turns out, there was beer in the boat but definitely no shade. Here in Iowa, we actually had the warmest day of the year here on Friday, go figure. July and August were below normal, I think Jeff was keeping all the heat out west.
Very low on open positions, this is all I had expire this week.
$UVXY $25 calls
$UVXY $91 calls
STC 9/22 $42.5 puts @ $1.69
STC 9/29 $44 puts @ $3.60
Made some gas money. I’m going to be away from the market fishing tomorrow so was only going to hold these as long as $VXX was dropping. Was hoping for more of a drop this morning, but that didn’t happen, so I’m out.
I did not catch the top of the vol spike
BTO Oct 6 $FXE $113.5 calls @ $1.58
STO Sep 29 $VXX $45 calls @ $.52
STO Sep 29 $VXX $47.5 calls @ $.32
BTO Sep 22 $VXX $42.5 puts @ $1.62, just for something new
BTO Sep 29 $VXX $44 puts @ $3.43
STO Sep 22 $UVXY $25 calls @ $.37
STO Sep 29 $UVXY $31.5 calls @ $.40
Put a little money to work, all of these are small positions
I have almost no positions left, closed out a lot of them a couple weeks ago. There have been a few opportunities to do some volatility selling but not enough to get aggressive. North Korea doesn’t even make the market blink anymore.
SVXY $17.5 puts
SVXY $49 puts
UVXY $65 calls
Have a great weekend
On the spike higher this morning, I STC my $FXE Sep 29 $113.5 calls I bought yesterday. Made a quick $300 in less than 24 hrs so exited the trade.
Just not much happening in the market so really not doing much right now. Did make one trade this morning.
BTO $FXE Sept 29 $133.50 calls @ $1.64, low risk entry point.
Following @optioniceman lead and taking some profits. Will reload on these on the next vol spike.
BTC Mar’18 $91 call @ $4.34, sold for $8.15
Hey gang, I was away from the market most of last week. Here’s what I had expire on Friday.
SVXY $55 puts
SVXY $67 puts
UVXY $38 calls
UVXY $40 calls
UVXY $75 calls
BTC $PETS Sept 15 $25 puts @ $.05, sold for $0.50
#OptionsExpiration
I sold a lot of positions a week ago @ $.05 or less so this is all I have left.
$VXX $45.5 put
SVXY $60 puts
UVXY $39 calls
UVXY $46 calls
UVXY $50 calls
Potential #fallingknife getting started
STO $UVXY Sep 1 $39 call @ $1.00
STO $UVXY Sep 1 $46 calls @ $.50
STO $UVXY Mar’18 $91 call @ $8.15
STO $SVXY Sep 15 $49 puts @ $.50
BTC Sep 15 $91 calls @ $.05, sold for $1.525 composite
BTC Sep 1 $55 calls @ $.05, sold 8/24 for .31
Continuing to lighten up into strength. Doing everything I can to guarantee the the market will scream higher vs. roll over and go lower like 99% of people think it is going to do. 🙂 🙂
SVXY $65 puts
UVXY $44 calls
UVXY $55 call
UVXY $58 call
UVXY $60 call
UVXY $82 call
JPM $91/$89 put spreads
BTC $UVXY Sep 1 $60 call @ $.05, sold for $1.68
A few more positions being closed early
BTC Sep 15 $35 puts @ $.05, sold for $.70
BTC Sep 15 $30 puts @ $.05, sold for $.50
BTC Sep 15 $27.5 puts @ $.04, sold for $.80
Cleaning out some positions early at minimum prices.
BTC Sep 1 $91 calls @ $.02, sold for $.70
BTC Sep 1 $70 calls @ $.04, sold for $1.35
BTC Sep 8 $91 calls @ $.o2, sold for $.75
#VeryOddThings
As I write this $UVXY is up 5.5%, $SVXY is down 2.8% yet my short calls in $UVXY and short puts in $SVXY are both positive on the day. So even as the underlying’s are moving against me, premium is getting sucked out, not increasing like you would expect.
#Market
Even though the market is whippy today, the internals really don’t suggest a big drop.
Tick isn’t doing anything remarkable
ADD is positive
VOLSPD is basically flat
VOLQD is flat to positive
Obviously this could change, but looks OK right now.
STC Sep 15 $35 call @ $4.00 (bought for $2.70 yesterday). Nice little kicker to my short puts. Likely could have held longer but that wasn’t my plan.
Nibbled when /ES firmed up. Small positions.
STO Sep 1 $50 calls @ $.52
STO Sep 1 $55 calls @ $.31
$PETS #FallingKnife
STO $PETS Sept 15 $25 puts @ $.50
Took advantage of some strength today to exit the last of my UVXY call spreads.
BTC Sep 1 $35/$36 Call Spreads for even
BTC Aug 25 $30/$35 Call Spreads for $400 loss, was only short a couple and loss was manageable.
I “hoped” that we’d see a nice rebound this morning and I’d be able to exit these for even better prices. I just don’t trust the market right now, don’t like that it just can’t rally. I put on the spreads as a defined risk way of playing the decay of $UVXY, and it worked just as expected limiting the impact on the account during a spike. What is different this time was the 2nd spike very close to the first one, and now it would appear that everyone is timid and the market is just not able to rally. Volatility is remaining somewhat elevated for a longer period of time causing these positions to be problematic. When these stay in the money and get near expiration, theta is really working against you and to roll as a vertical for a credit you have to make the spread incredibly wide, so I just cleared out of these.
SVXY $37.5 puts
UVXY $46.5 call
UVXY $50 call
UVXY $65 calls
UVXY $82 calls
Closed out UVXY $35/$39 call spreads for a loss. Decided to wait until Monday to see what happens with the market before adding any more new positions.
Interesting week.
Have a great weekend
Additional trades this morning.
BTC Aug 25 $37/$38 calls spreads for flat just in case we get another move lower.
STO Sep 15 $91 calls @ $2.00
STO Sep 1 $91 calls @ $0.70
STO Sep 1 $70 Call @ $1.35
STO Aug 25 $58 Call @ $1.10
#Market
Looks like only support level today will be time based, the closing bell in 3 hours.
STO Aug 25 $44 calls @ $ 1.00
I’ve been short a $27/$32 call spread expiring tomorrow. Ended up getting assigned on the short calls last night. At the spike higher at the open, closed out my $32 calls for a nice price. Now just watching the chart to pick a good time to exit the short stock. Market is strengthening and $UVXY starting up drop. Would really like to see it get below $31 this morning.
STO Sep 8 $91 calls @ $.51, small position just to get something on the books for this expiration, didn’t have anything.
Made couple of sales this morning to replace puts that expired last week. Waited a while before putting these on, so lower prices than if I had done it first thing this morning.
STO Sep 1 $60 puts @ $.88
STO Sep 8 $55 puts @ $.76
STO Aug 18 $50 call @ $0.90
Only sold 1 because I took a chance and placed a market order (which I never do) just before the open but wanted to see what kind of fill I might get. Didn’t want to get stuck with a bunch of them in case I got a real crappy fill.
SVXY $65 puts
SVXY $70 puts (these went ITM for a short time this afternoon)
UVXY $45 calls (these went ITM for a short time this afternoon)
UVXY $50 calls
UVXY $60 calls
Have a great weekend everyone.
Into the close rolled Aug 11 $39 call to Aug 18 $46.5 call for a $.20 credit
Even with SPX still down more than 20 points, they have started selling vol hard.
STO Aug 25 $37/$38 call spreads @ $.033
STO Aug 11 $39 calls @ $1.08, expire tomorrow.