TQQQ

#ShortPuts – Sold TQQQ NOV 19 2021 90.0 Puts @ 3.25

COIN Put

Sold the last of my long Puts in COIN
Sold 1 COIN Oct 22 2021 175.0 Put at $1.65. Bought at $1.42 as a long hedge on a past diagonal spread.
No more risk positions in this name to deal with.
#WinWin

SOXL

#ShortPuts – One more add.

Sold SOXL OCT 15 2021 37.0 Put @ 2.00

VXX Calls

Sold VXX Sep 24 2021 37.0 Diagonal Calls at $1.29 & $1.36.
Finally got close to the peak as they fell 50% by the close to $0.61

SOXL

#ShortPuts – One more add.

Sold SOXL OCT 15 2021 38.0 Put @ 2.25

LABU

Sold 1 LABU Sep 24 2021 58.0 Diagonal Put at $2.20

VXX Calls

Sold VXX Sep 24 2021 36.0 Diagonal Calls at $1.15, $1.24 & $1.34

Markets

This could never happen again, right? (he says sarcastically)

bfm5995_0

SPX iron condor

Sold $SPX Sep 22 4175/4200/4425/4450 iron condor @ 4.30

TQQQ,

STO December 17, 65 puts at 2.26

NEM Stock

Bought a bit of NEM when it hit a new 52-week low at 54.0
#SP500 #FallingKnife

Coming back to the TQQQ party

Sold $TQQQ Oct 15 100 put @ 2.21

SOXL

#ShortPuts – Sold SOXL OCT 15 2021 38.0 Put @ 2.00

VXX Calls

Sold VXX Sep 24 2021 35.0 Diagonal Calls at $1.05, $1.09 & $1.16

SOXL SPY

#ShortPuts – A couple small adds.

SOXL: Add to the ladder.
Sold SOXL OCT 15 2021 39.0 Put @ 2.00

SPY: Selling well below the 200 day and down near early year lows and almost two times the expected move.
Sold SPY NOV 19 2021 375.0 Put @ 4.00

VXX Puts

Bought some more long term Puts to write against once this move is over –
Bought 1 VXX Mar 18 2022 15.0 Put at $0.90
Bought 1 VXX Mar 18 2022 13.0 Put at $0.40.
Bought 1 VXX Jan 21 2022 18.0 Put at $0.80.
#VXXContango

/VX VIX Futures

#ShortCalls – Just for fun.

SOLD /VX @25.40
BOUGHT /VX @25.15

SPX trades

#SPX1dte Woke up at 4:30 to close put side: Bought to close $SPX Sep 20th 4330/4310 put spreads for 3.20. Condors sold for 1.05 on Friday. Looks like it would have been better to wait for the open, but market was falling all night.

#spx7dtelong

TNA Put

Liquidated one of the long Puts held as a hedge against an old short put position that expired on 09/03.
Sold to close 1 TNA Oct 01 2021 70.0 Put at $1.85. Bought at $1.52.
#WinWin

AAPL puts

Sold to open $AAPL Oct 15 135 puts @ 1.69, with the strike right around the 200 day moving average. If assigned, cost basis would be 133.31.

Upside Warning canceled

#VIXIndicator $VIX finally showed some gumption this morning. Likely downside warning coming at the close.

TQQQ Put

Liquidated one of the long Puts held as a hedge against an old short put position that expired on 09/03.
Sold to close 1 TQQQ Oct 01 2021 100.0 Put at $0.86. Bought at $0.42.
#WinWin

LABU Put

Sold 1 LABU Sep 24 2021 59.0 Diagonal Put at $1.94.
Paired with a short LABU 67.0 Diagonal Call sold Friday for $2.60 giving me a 59/67 Strangle for a $4.54 total premium.

COIN Put

Liquidated one of the long Puts held as a hedge against an old short put position that expired on 09/10
Sold to close 1 COIN Oct 15 2021 170.0 Put at $0.80. Bought at $0.75.
#WinWin

UVXY

Selling off small pieces of my UVXY now that the Sep (pre-split) Calls expired Friday
Sold UVXY @ 26.60 on the open
Sold more UVXY @ 27.00

VXX

More trades
Sold 1 VXX Oct 08 2021 35.0 Diagonal Call at $1.60
Sold 1 VXX Oct 15 2021 40.0 Diagonal Call at $1.68

Bought 1 VXX Jan 21 2022 18.0 Put at $0.90 with part of the cash.
#VXXContango

TQQQ

#ShortPuts – Filling in a nearer term rung of a ladder.

Sold TQQQ OCT 8 2021 115.0 Put @ 2.35

VXX long calls

Exiting long Calls the were hedges for last week’s short calls that expired worthless

Sold to Close for gains:
VXX Oct 08 2021 54.0 Calls at $0.40 (bought at $0.34)
VXX Oct 08 2021 49.0 Call at $0.54 (bought at $0.48)
VXX Oct 08 2021 48.0 Calls at $0.70 (bought at $0.47)
#WinWin

VXX Covered Call Ladder

Sold to Open
VXX Sep 24 2021 34.5 Calls at $0.60
VXX Sep 24 2021 34.0 Calls at $0.63
VXX Sep 24 2021 33.5 Call at $0.59
VXX Sep 24 2021 33.0 Call at $0.65
VXX Sep 24 2021 32.5 Call at $0.90

They can have my stock at these prices

SOXL

#ShortPuts – Adding small.

Sold SOXL OCT 15 2021 40.0 Put @ 2.25
Sold SOXL OCT 15 2021 41.0 Put @ 2.50

SPY

#ShortPuts – First shot at the 200 day.

Sold SPY OCT 15 2021 410.0 Put @ 4.02

In addition to my usual…

In addition to my usual put expirations, I have the following which are covered by long term options or leaps as they call them:
IBB 178 call at 1.46
CAT 217.5 call at 1.70
FAS 141 call at 1.40
SHOP 1670 call at 8.60
DIS 187.5 call at 1.16

I need to sell the short calls from 22 cents to 43 cents per week to break even by expiration on the leaps. So far I am exceeding the premium that I need to collect but in a bear market it could be hard to get enough premium on the short calls. On SHOP, I need to collect $4.24 per week.

#optionsexpiration soxl btc SOXL 17…

#optionsexpiration
soxl

btc SOXL 17 SEP 2021 43 PUT @.05/sold for avg .87

right at close needed to release buying power to buy qyld /cause goes exdividend Monday

#dividendcapture
QYLD

Expiration / Assignments

#optionsexpiration #assignment
$U 135 call Stock called away. Basis 121.21.
$PFE 47 call
$MSTR 690 call
$JNJ 167.50 call
$INMD 135 call Stock called away Basis 131.80. Trade put on Wednesday.
$TQQQ 84.5 put
$TOOO 105 put
$TQQQ 100 put Thank you @ramie77
$TSLA 650 put
$TSLA 540 put
$SOXL 43 put

TQQQ,

These will expire today.
80 put, sold at 1.57
75 put, sold at 1.15
SOXL,
35 put, sold at 1.30

OptionsExpiration

A major expiration for me as well as the market in general.

A lot of old long hedges rolled off today along with many #DoubleDip and #TripleDip call and put writes against those positions.

Virtually all the longs were paid for within 5 days of their purchase because they were part of diagonal positions with the short side expiring within a week. That left them long for future re-writes.

#OnlySpreads

== Expired==
AMC 09/17/2021 47.0 Diagonal Call
AMC 09/17/2021 50.0 Diagonal Call
AMC 09/17/2021 10/41 Bull Put Spreads
AMC 09/17/2021 10/40 Bull Put Spreads

COIN 09/17/2021 150/220 Bull Put Spread
COIN 09/17/2021 175/225 Bull Put Spread

LABU 09/17/2021 70.0 Diagonal Call
LABU 09/17/2021 35/58 Bull Put Spread
LABU 09/17/2021 40/59 Bull Put Spread

SLV 09/17/2021 20.0 Put

TLRY 09/17/2021 40/16 Bear Call Spread
TLRY 09/17/2021 33/16 Bear Call Spread
TLRY 09/17/2021 32/16 Bear Call Spread
TLRY 09/17/2021 29/16 Bear Call Spread
TLRY 09/17/2021 10/11.5 Bull Put Spreads

TNA 09/17/2021 105/93 Bear Call Spread
TNA 09/17/2021 105/88 Bear Call Spread
TNA 09/17/2021 55/82 Bull Put Spread

TQQQ 09/17/2021 170/150 Bear Call Spread

UVXY1 09/17/2021 9.0 Covered Calls (pre-split contract)
UVXY1 09/17/2021 8.0 Covered Calls (pre-split contract)
UVXY1 09/17/2021 7.0 Covered Calls (pre-split contract)
UVXY1 09/17/2021 6.0 Covered Calls (pre-split contract)

VXX1 09/17/2021 6.0 Diagonal Puts (pre-split contract)
VXX1 09/17/2021 5.0 Diagonal Puts (pre-split contract)

VXX 09/17/2021 80/35 Bear Call Spread
VXX 09/17/2021 65/33.5 Bear Call Spreads
VXX 09/17/2021 64/33 Bear Call Spreads
VXX 09/17/2021 60/32.5 Bear Call Spreads
VXX 09/17/2021 55/31.5 Bear Call Spread
VXX 09/17/2021 31.0 Diagonal Calls
VXX 09/17/2021 30.5 Diagonal Call
VXX 09/17/2021 30.0 Diagonal Calls
VXX 09/17/2021 29.0 Covered Calls
VXX 09/17/2021 28.5 Covered Calls
VXX 09/17/2021 28 Covered Calls
VXX 09/17/2021 27.5 Covered Calls
VXX 09/17/2021 20/24 Bull Put Spreads
VXX 09/17/2021 21/25 Bull Put Spreads

LABU Roll

Final trade today
Bought to close 1 LABU Sep 17 2021 65.0 Diagonal Call at $1.40. Sold on a roll last Friday at $2.70

Sold 1 LABU Sep 24 2021 67.0 Call at $2.60 for a $1.20 Credit plus a strike 2 points higher.

ROLL BX Call

#syntheticcoveredcalls
$BX BTC 9/17 135 call and STO 9/24 137 call at added credit of .17

ROLL ALB Put

#shortputs
$ALB BTC 9/17 230 put and STO 10/15 220 put at added credit of 2.70

Markets

The VIX index is now up 10% + today at 21.05
Don’t know that it will stay that way but it’s worth watching

LABU Call Close

#coveredcalls
$LABU BTC 9.17 65 call at .05. STO at .80 on Wednesday. I’m getting skittish.

VXX Long Put

Bought another long put to act as a #VXXContango hedge for future writes.
Bought 1 VXX Mar 18 2022 13.0 Put at $0.56, adding to my buy from yesterday 0.10 lower.

Also Bought 1 VXX Jan 21 2022 15.0 Put at $0.33

I will start writing against them next week after my 24 and 25 short puts expire today.
(just for reference, I sold this week’s 25 puts for $0.76 last Friday)

LABU Rollup

Rolled 1 LABU Sep 17 2021 59.0 Diagonal Call to 1 LABU Sep 24 2021 61.0 Call at $0.05 Credit.

Waiting to see if my short 65 and 70 Calls & my short 58 and 59 Puts expire in about 2 hours.

COUP

ShortPuts – This has been a good one this year so don’t mind a tiny loss on this one. Circling the wagons a little bit today…

Bought to Close COUP OCT 8 2021 230.0 Put @ 4.70 (sold for 4.00)

TQQQ

#ShortPuts – Adding small.

Sold TQQQ OCT 15 2021 115.0 Put @ 2.18
Sold TQQQ OCT 22 2021 110.0 Put @ 2.20
Sold TQQQ OCT 29 2021 105.0 Put @ 2.40

CRWD TDOC

#ShortPuts #CoveredCalls – Cleaning up a couple.

CRWD: Stopped out for beer money.
Bought to Close CRWD OCT 1 2021 250.0 Put @ 3.90 (sold for 4.00)

TDOC: Finally a rally so stock will be called away at 138. (breakeven)

TQQQ Puts

Sold TQQQ Sep 24 2021 120.0 Diagonal Puts at $0.49 & 0.50
Paired with short calls for next week.

VXX Call

Another rollout
Bought to close 1 VXX Sep 17 2021 54.0 Covered Call at $0.01. Sold a lifetime ago on 08/02 at at $1.14.

Replaced it with 1 VXX Oct 08 2021 34.0 Call at $1.03

TQQQ Major Rollup

Bought to close 1 TQQQ Sep 17 2021 144.0 Diagonal Call at $0.99. Sold last Friday on another roll at $7.85

Sold to Open 1 TQQQ Sep 24 2021 150.0 Call at $1.11.
A 6 point bump in the short strike and a $0.22 Credit.

I still have today’s short 150 Call that I’m waiting to expire.

VXX Call

Bought to close 1 VXX Sep 17 2021 38.0 Covered Call at $0.01. Sold at $1.06.

Replaced it with 1 VXX Oct 15 2021 38.0 Call at $1.03

ABNB Early close

BTC Oct-01-21 155/165 #BuPS @ 2.15.

Taking some risk off.

TTWO VRTX

2 #FallingKnife #SP500 stocks at new Lows for today.
Bought a tiny amount of TTWO at $149.45 and some VRTX at $185, adding to my position.
My last buy in VRTX was June 15th at 190.
Stock I bought even earlier at $193.58 I sold on 07/16/2021 at $204.00

AMC Call Roll

Bought to Close 1 AMC Sep 17 2021 41.0 Diagonal Call at $4.44
Sold to Open AMC Sep 24 2021 41.0 Call at $5.23 for a $0.79 Credit.

Hoping my short 47 and 50 calls expire at the end of the day.

DOCU Oct

Accepting the 4.60 loss on the September 280/290/300 iron butterfly (adjusted from original iron condor) and reinitiating a trade in October based on technicals. Sold to open $DOCU Oct 15 260/250 bull put spread @ 1.85, short puts 25 delta.
#NotARevengeTrade

ENPH

Roll $ENPH Sep-17-2021 200 #CoveredCall // Oct-15-2021 190 @0.75.

LABU

#CoveredCalls – Rolling out a couple weeks but keeping downside protection.

Rolled LABU SEP 17 2021 54.0 Calls to OCT 1 2021 54.0 Calls @ 1.25 credit

Assigned

Assigned on $ZM Oct-1-2021 370 #ShortPut overnight, converting #BuPS to $ZM Oct-1-2021 #protectiveput

Probably will look to close and take the loss.

ABNB

Roll Sep-17-2021 150/165 #BuPS // Oct-15-2021 @ 3.35 credit.

COUP Put Close

#shortputs
$COUP BTC 9/17 240 put at 1.00. STO at 3.40. Earnings trade @fuzzballl

HOOD

#ShortPuts – Taking winners and going out a couple weeks with new ones.

Bought to Close HOOD SEP 17 2021 40.0 Puts @ .20 (sold for 1.14)
Bought to Close HOOD SEP 17 2021 41.0 Puts @ .45 (sold for 1.40)
Bought to Close HOOD SEP 17 2021 42.0 Puts @ .95 (sold for 1.75)
Bought to Close HOOD SEP 17 2021 43.0 Puts @ 1.80 (sold for 2.10)

Sold HOOD OCT 1 2021 38.0 Puts @ .93
Sold HOOD OCT 1 2021 39.0 Puts @ 1.25

SNOW BUPS / TQQQ Put / MARA Put Close

#bups
$SNOW STO 10/15 315/305 at 3.60

#shortputs
$TQQQ STO 10/22 110 put at 2.00 Thank you @fuzzballl
$MARA BTC 9/17 37 put at .03. STO as part of strangle at 1.48. Call closed yesterday.

TQQQ

#ShortPuts – Selling the 200 day again.

Sold TQQQ OCT 29 2021 110.0 Put @ 2.60

SPX trades

#SPX7dteLong Sold to close $SPX Sep 17th 4445/4425 put spread for 3.50. I’m kind of back on the bullish train, since the VIX has been tepid, but even so I sold this too early and we are dropping more.

#spx1dte

VXX Put rolldown

As is typical as we approach Friday, the VIX and VXX are both falling.

Bought to close 1 VXX Sep 17 2021 26.5 Put at $1.24. Sold last week on another rolldown at $1.98.

Sold to Open 1 Contract VXX Sep 24 2021 26.0 Put at $1.44 and gained another half point on the strike for next week.

Also bought some new long puts to act a #VXXContango hedges for future writes.
Bought 1 VXX Mar 18 2022 13.0 Put at $0.66
Bought 1 VXX Jan 21 2022 15.0 Put at $0.44

CTXS

Closing out a tiny long position in a former #FallingKnife.
Sold CTXS stock at $115. Bought this on 07/29 at $94.70 and never got to average down.

HOOD

#BullPutSpreads – Taking a directional shot just for fun. I’ll take the stock if needed.

Sold HOOD OCT 1 2021 45.0/40.0 Bull Put Spreads @ 3.42

HOOD

#ShortPuts – Taking off the bottom of the ladder.

Bought to Close HOOD SEP 17 2021 38.0 Puts @ .06 (sold for 1.15)

HOOD

#JadeLizards – Fairly sizable position for me so with the stock perking up taking off the call spread side for good profits. Leaving short puts at 43,42,41,40 and 38

Bought to Close HOOD SEP 17 2021 43.0/45.0 Bear Call Spreads @ .15 (sold for .75)

TSLA

STO $TSLA Oct-1-2021 690/700 #BuPS @1.30 credit. Short side at 21 delta.
Currently holding $TSLA Sep-17-2021 695/705 #BuPS, and looking to close/expire.

HOOD Put Roll / LABU Call / ALB Put / MARA Put Close / UPST Call Roll

#shortputs
$HOOD BTC 9/17 41 put and STO 9/24 40 put at added credit of .23
$ALB STO 9/17 230 put at 1.85
$MARA BTC 9/17 32 put at .15. STO at .74

#coveredcalls
$LABU STO 9/17 65 call at .80
$UPST BTC 9/17 300 call and STO 9/24 295 call at added credit of 4.20

AMC Puts

Pairing with my numerous short calls for this week.
Sold AMC Sep 17 2021 41.0 Diagonal Puts at $0.56
Sold AMC Sep 17 2021 40.0 Diagonal Puts at $0.28

Rolling SKLZ

With the stock at 10.77, rolled $SKLZ Sep 17 12.50 puts out to Oct 15 12.50 puts @ .51 credit, dropping cost basis down to 10.84.

TQQQ

#ShortPuts – Adding at the 200 day and well outside the expected move.

Sold TQQQ OCT 22 2021 110.0 Put @ 2.50

Coin

Roll $COIN Sep-17-21 245/.255// Oct-01-21 @ 1.35 debit.

VXX Call

Sold 1 VXX Sep 17 2021 28 .0 Diagonal Call at $0.59