#LongCalls – A final postmortem on my old buddy after taking the trade all the way to the end selling weeklies against long calls…(this was an experimental shorter term position and not a #LEAPS trade).
Initial Cost of a 5 lot of long calls: $5116.95
Total weekly premium received: $4983.85
Net loss of 133.10 including commissions. The trade was never profitable so happy with the end result….adios Mr. CELG!
NOTE: There may be errors and omissions in this list. Please perform your own due diligence and confirm the earnings date BEFORE entering a trade.
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Notable Earnings AM Mon:
BPOP, HAL, HAS, ITW, ONB, PETS, PHG
Notable Earnings PM Mon:
ACC, AMTD, BRO, CDNS, GOOG, HLX, OI, STLD, WERN, WHR, ZION
Notable Earnings AM Tues:
ATI, AVY, BIIB, BKU, BTU, CIT, CNC, CSTM, DGX, EDU, HOG, IPG, IQV, JBLU, KMB, LLY, LMT, LPT, MDSO, MLCO, MMM, PCAR, SHW, SNV, ST, TRU, UTX, VZ, WAB, WAT
Notable Earnings PM Tues:
AKR, AMP, BXMT, CB, CNI, EQR, HA, HIW, IPHI, IRBT, KN, MKSI, NAVI, RHI, SPN, STL, SYK, T, TER, TSS, TXN, WCN
Notable Earnings AM Wed:
AEP, ANTM, AOS, APH, BA, BSX, CHKP, DAN, DTE, EVR, FCAU, FCX, FLIR, GD, GLW, GM, GRUB, HBAN, HCA, HES, HLT, IART, IMAX, INVA, IR, KEM, KO, LH, LW, NDAQ, NEE, NOC, NSC, OC, PNR, RES, ROK, SC, SIX, SRE, STM, TEL, TMO, TROW, TUP, UPS, WIX, WM
Notable Earnings PM Wed:
ABX, AEM, ALGN, AMD, AXS, AXTI, CCJ, CLB, CTXS, CVRR, CW, DDR, DRE, EFX, EHC, ESRT, ESV, FB, FFIV, FR, FTI, GG, GGG, GILD, KNX, KRC, LM, LVS, MAT, MDLZ, MHK, MPWR, NOW, OII, ORLY, PEB, PKG, PYPL, QCOM, QEP, QTS, RJF, ROIC, SFS, STAY, SU, TMK, TRN, UHS, V, VAR, VRTX, XLNX
Notable Earnings AM Thurs:
AAL, AAN, ABMD, ADNT, AGN, ALK, ALKS, ALLE, ALLY, ALXN, APD, AXTA, AZN, BAX, BC, BMS, BMY, BUD, BWA, CELG, CMCSA, CME, CMS, COP, CRI, CVE, DHI, DNKN, EIGI, ENTG, EQM, EQT, FAF, GRA, HP, HSY, IP, IVZ, KDP, KIM, KKR, LAZ, LDOS, LEA, LKQ, LLL, LUV, MA, MCD, MCK, MMC, MO, MPC, MPLX, NEM, NLSN, NTCT, NVCR, NYT, ODFL, PCG, PENN, PHM, PTEN, PX, RDN, RDS.A, RTN, SAVE, SPB, SPGI, SPOT, SYNT, TAL, TECK, TPX, TSCO, TSEM, UAA, UBSI, VC, VLO, WWE, XEL, XRX, YNDX
Notable Earnings PM Thurs:
AFL, AJG, AMGN, AMZN, BOFI, BYD, CMG, COLM, CUBE, CVA, CXP, CY, DECK, DFS, DLR, EA, EGHT, EIX, EMN, EW, EXPE, FBHS, FHB, FII, FLEX, FSLR, FTV, HIG, INT, INTC, JEF, JNPR, LEG, LOGM, LPLA, LRCX, LYV, MXIM, NCR, NOV, NR, OFC, PFG, PFPT, RSG, SBUX, SGEN, SIVB, SVU, TEAM, UCTT, VRSN, WDC
Notable Earnings AM Fri:
ABBV, ALV, AON, BEN, CL, COG, COL, CVX, GT, IMGN, IRM, LPNT, MCO, MD, MRK, POR, PSX, SYF, TCF, TEN, TPH, TWTR, VIRT, VTR, WETF, WY, XOM, ZBH
Notable Earnings PM Fri:
KBR
@jEFF Miracle of miracles, I’m in OB. Thank you Jeff.
#shortputs
Rolled
$MZOR BTC 7/20 70 puts and STO 8/17 70 puts for .90 added credit. EArnings 8/6
#optionsexpiration
$NVDA 265/285 BUCS Max Loss
$WYNN 170/175 BUPS Max Loss
$FB 180/190 BUPS
$NFLX 340/350 BUPS
$SPX 2600/2625 BUPS Thank you @jeffcp66
$BA 325/335 BUPS Thank you @ramie77
$BABA 200 call
$TRTN 35 call (Covered)
$CLF 8 puts
$FEYE 18 calls (covered)
$TWTR 44 calls
$FSLR 50 puts
$TWTR 42 puts
$ALRM 37.5 puts
$KEM 24 puts
A little late but it is summer in the city. Have an enjoyable and restful Sunday.
$APA 30 puts
$BA 325/320 BuPS
$CLX 115 puts
$DQ 55 calls (covered)
$EXAS 62 puts
$HSIC 50 puts
$JCI 33 puts
$KMB 90 puts
$SWK 130 puts
$WDC 65 puts
$WHR 120 puts
$WYNN 162.50/152.50 BuPS
Have a great weekend everyone.
$APA 30 puts
$BA 325/320 BuPS
$CLX 115 puts
$DQ 55 calls (covered)
$EXAS 62 puts
$HSIC 50 puts
$JCI 33 puts
$KMB 90 puts
$SWK 130 puts
$WDC 65 puts
$WHR 120 puts
$WYNN 162.50/152.50 BuPS
Have a great weekend everyone.
TheoTrade
Is anyone familiar with the Risk Twist Put spread as explained by TheoTrade?
SPY October 19th Exp.
STO 276 PUT x 1
BTO 266 PUT x 3
STO 264 PUT x 1
For a debit of $1.30
Apparently it is good for protection in a pullback of about 7%
They are saying that you can put this trade on about 4 times per year, 90 DTE
When I try to analyze the trade, it looks like risk of loss significantly increases after 30 days, so in my mind, you have to close and re-establish a new trade every 30 days.
If you know this trade, can you tell me the best way to manage it?
#Coveredcalls
DBX 33 Calls
NUGT 26 Calls
TWTR 45 Calls
Have a great weekend.
#OptionsExpiration #Earnings #ContangoETFs
— Expiring w/max profit —
$COF 93.5 puts, sold yesterday for 1.40
$GUSH 48 call, sold for 1.05 last month
$ISRG 520/525 call spread, sold yesterday for 2.75 (wish I’d waited on both!)
$NFLX 475 call, sold Monday for 1.00
$SNA 145 puts, sold Wednesday
— Assignments —
$MU 54 and 54.5 #CoveredCalls #PieTrades Originally assigned via 55 puts, after a few weeks of call sales, exiting with cost basis around 51.
$SNA 170 calls, going short the stock. No weekly options on this so I think it will be quicker to get out on a dip next week.
STO, November 85 puts @ 2.40
FAS BTC July 20th 67.50 calls at 1.35. Originally sold 7/13 for 0.88. I will re-cover long stock at a more opportune price.
SIG #shortputs Bought to close 7/27 58 Puts @ .40. Sold 7/18 @ 1.20.
#fallingknife
FYI
SKX is down 21%
@geewhiz112
FYI
CLF is up on earnings.
Calls are profitable.
#SuperCharger Following Mama and Mort:
Bought to open $NVDA Aug 17th 230/240 bull call spread for 7.55.
As @fuzzballl mentioned earlier, some companies move their earnings dates around making pre-ER trades more difficult. WYNN is one of those companies. They moved their tentative earnings date from 7/26 to 8/1 but still not confirmed. This is probably a good one to avoid and SWKS too.
#CoveredCallCampaign BTC $FB July 20th 210 #CoveredCall for 1.00 to avoid assignment. Sold for 2.00 on June 20th.
Bring on the earnings!
DOCU Closed my 1 short 7/20 55 Put for 3.20. Taking that 1.00 loss to avoid deeper risk. Miss managed this earlier when it was 40% profitable. Hadn’t hit the 50% target so I waited……That didn’t turn out so well.
Sold $CVS Nov 16 57.50 puts @ 1.36. Dropped down a strike (already short the Nov 60 puts).
Sold Aug17 115c @ 1.11 for 71% profit. Bot @ 1.90.
This is my last round of CHKP pre-earnings.
STC PBR Jul 20 10/13 BuCS @1.35 6/1 BTO @ 1.00
STC EWZ started 5/29 was a big loser but worked it until today and closed for a small profit. Thx to Sue, MamaCash and Fuzball for help.
STC LMT +140.00 on one I tried hard to screw it up but came out with a profit.
STO November 80 puts @1.45 with stock trading at 97.29
#LEAPs Another one I’m closing early to avoid any intraday surprises.
BTC $PYPL July 20th 87.5 puts for .11. Sold for 1.26 (avg price) last Friday.
I’m trading short term around PYPL against Jan 2019 100 long calls.
#Earnings $NFLX has not recovered from its drop strongly and I don’t want to mess with this if it drops into the close.
BTC NFLX July 20th 360 put for .27. Sold for 3.46 last week. Leaving 475 call to expire.
I’ll be trading pre-earnings on NVDA but it’s a little early to put on unhedged calls so starting with a supercharger.
Bot NVDA Aug17 230/240 BuCS @ 7.60. GTC order to close at 9.40.
#supercharger
Trump says he’s ‘ready’ to put tariffs on all $505 billion of Chinese goods imported to the US.
The market seems not affected by this news.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-apos-apos-ready-100900482.html
#Earnings Closed one of my $ISRG 520/525 call spreads for 4.49. Saved 51 bucks from allowing it to expire ITM. I’ll wait longer on the other one in case the stock starts dropping. Sold them yesterday for 2.75.
Driving all day made 2 trades, followed Iceman on AA and closed July 20 TSLA 330/340 call spreads for .39 near the open, had been rolled, cost basis of 1.31.
#PieTrades BTC $AMAT July 20th 46 #CoveredCall for .80. Sold last week for .75
Sold to Open AMAT July 27th 46.5 covered call for 1.05.
In my IRA, I closed my 2020, 55 calls against my 58.50 calls for a 16.7% profit since June 29th. I am now 100% cash in the IRA.
BTC January 35 puts @ 1.20, sold yesterday at 1.50, decided I did not like the trade. I can’t give any reason but, I am just nervous about this market right now. Something does not feel right to me at this moment.
#LongCalls #LEAPS – All of these are ratios except the SMH (wish it was). Taking care of these today since I’ll be out all day tomorrow (3 day golf weekend…LOL). Still will have TSLA, AMAT, AVGO, CELG, EWZ to watch.
LABU:
Rolled LABU JUL 20 2018 90.0 Call to AUG 10 2018 91.0 Call @ .24 credit
NVDA:
Rolled NVDA JUL 20 2018 247.5 Call to JUL 27 2018 250.0 Call @ .55 credit
RTN:
Rolled RTN JUL 20 2018 195.0 Calls to AUG 3 2018 197.5 Calls @ .25 debit
SMH:
Rolled SMH JUL 20 2018 102.0 Calls to AUG 10 2018 103.0 Calls @ .12 credit
TQQQ:
Rolled TQQQ JUL 20 2018 57.0 Calls to AUG 3 2018 57.5 Calls @ even
#Earnings I sold two (2) $ISRG July 20th 520/525 call spreads for 2.75. Max loss 2.25. Chart looks over done. Better than 1:1 so why not?
#ShortPuts #IRA #FallingKnife – A great dividend down at these levels. I missed the earnings selloff first thing this morning…
Sold PM DEC 21 2018 75.0 Put @ 2.60
Sold PM JAN 18 2019 75.0 Put @ 2.87
MamaCash, when you have a pre-earnings trade on and the stock pulls back, I understand that you add to your position. My question is do you add calls at the same original strike, or do you go down to a new strike at the appropriate delta?
#ShortPuts TQQQ Sold July 27th 63 Put @ 1.05 with TQQQ at 64.86
sold NFLX Jul 20 380/410 BeCS for $1.10, stock looks heavy.
BTC BeCS NFLX 390/410 for 0.07, sold yesterday for 0.50
Why AMZN is down today despite their prime was very good.
https://www.nasdaq.com/article/amazon-tops-900b-on-record-prime-day-sales-etfs-to-tap-cm993609
Morning Scanning through SMM growth list and took a look at $GRUB. Earnings are 7/25 Before according to ToS. There is no press release on the web site. They have weeklies and ATM premiums are about 5% or better for all of August and higher beyond. Once earnings are passed this might make a good PIE trade or other approaches. Something to look at and consider. The options are thin.
#Earnings Sold to Open $COF 93.5 puts for 1.10.
Biggest UP move: 8.6%, Biggest DOWN move: -13.1%, Average move: 4.0%. When filled, this trade was 1.8% OTM. Chart looks decent, and the strike is below the 200 dma. I can take assignment and sell calls if necessary.
Also considering a similar trade on $CTAS.
I might BUY a strangle on $SKX, since it often moves big.
Chinese market today, Chop Chop
#Earnings Finally, an earnings trade that works like they’re supposed to. $SNA July 20th 145/170 strangle sold yesterday for 1.40. Dead centered. Will close for cheap or allow to expire.
#shortputs
Closed Early
$CAT BTC 7/20 135/140 BUPS at 1.82 STO 6/20 at 1.40
$FDX BTC 8/17 210/220 BUPS at .95 STO at 2.15
$NFLX BTC 7/20 360/370 BUPS at 1.20 STO at 3.01
#longcalls
Closed Early
$AMZN STC 7/20 1630/1660 BUCS at 29.80 BTO 6/1 at 16.25
#Earnings Put in this order hours ago and it just filled:
Sold $SNA July 20th 145/170 strangles for 1.40.
Biggest UP move: 6.7%, Biggest DOWN move: -7.4%, Average move: 4.2%. My strikes are +7.3% and -8.5% OTM.
STO January 35 puts @1.50
#shortputs #fallingknife #closing ABBV
June 25, sold Nov, 75 put for 1.40, bought today for .80
#shortputs #rolling #pietrade DOCU
rolled July 20, 55 put to August for 2.35, essentially even on the roll, DOCU is below 54
SPX
Has anyone considered buying some protection at this Vol level?
At the risk of inundating you with pre-earnings ideas, here’s another from CMLViz. By the way, this flurry will settle down in a couple weeks and I will focus on something else until October. lol.
http://www.cmlviz.com/research.php?number=12196&cml_article_id=20180714_the-five-year-repeating-momentum-pattern-into-earnings-in-take-two-interactive-software-inc
I’m in TTWO already but prefer to let you pick your own delta and expiration on this one.:-) I’ll be out of town tomorrow so got in early.
BTO Jul 27 1750/1752.50 1.89 #supercharger
Earnings 7/26 will exit 1 day before (I Hope).
BTO Jul 27 360/362.0 Calls 1.99 #supercharger
MU Sold July 27th 58 Puts @ 1.41with MU @ 58.05.
STO January 55 puts @1.20
STC Jul 27 1155/1157.5 2.25 Bought for 1.90 7/16 2x #supercharger
#preearnings #earningsrunup – Nice bounce today. Got the 40 percent….woohoo! Looks like it could have some more room too…another 4 dollars up to the 200ma.
Sold to Close LMT JUL 27 2018 327.5 Call @ 2.65 (bought for 1.90)
I plan to re-enter BA on a pullback if we get one. With 7 days until the earnings report, there’s room to run on a pb.
If you’re in LMT, we only have 6 days until earnings. I have a GTC order to sell my LMT calls at 40% above yesterday’s closing price. I know that some of you are trying this for the first time so will let you know what I’m doing. Here’s to happy and profitable trading!
Bot EOG Aug3 128c @ 1.05 x2. Adding a layer on today’s pullback.
Bot AMTD Jul27 58c @ .60 ydy, Sold @ .95
Bot BA Jul27 370c @ 3.45 ydy. Sold @ 4.70
Sometimes these trades are short lived. 40% GTC targets hit or exceeded.
#PreEarnings Bought to Open $EOG Aug 3rd 128 calls for 1.30. See MamaCash’s post from yesterday for more details on the strategy.
#shortputs
$NFLX STO 8/17 315/325 BUPS at 1.75 Thank you @ramie77
$NFLX STO 8/17 340/345 BUPS at 1.90
$NFLX STO 8/10 345/350 BUPS at 1.07
$AVGO STO 8/17 180/190 BUPS at 1.50
Closed Early
$IWM BTC 7/20 157/162 BUPS at .05 STO for 1.03
FYI
Someone made a nice profit
CLRB is up 885%
Can you access this? http://www.cmlviz.com/research.php?number=12203&cml_article_id=20180717_the-one-week-pre-earnings-momentum-trade-with-options
#SPXcampaign Can’t shake these SPX spreads before I leave. Doubling size and rolling to the same expiration on this one:
Stopped $SPX July 27th 2825/2850 call spreads for 6.50
Sold July 27th 2750/2775/2860/2885 #CondorRoll for 3.40, double position size.
18% of Allocation:
STO SPX 9/14/18 2640 puts
BTO SPX 9/14/18 2620 puts
BTO SPX 9/14/18 1300 puts
1.15 credit
#shortputspread #postearnings NFLX
sold Oct. 320/330 for 2.18, have a Sept. 350/360 sold July 12 that I was supposed to have been able to close today darn it.
Rolled long call deltas on some ratio trades down from 70-75 to 62-63 delta for credit.
DIA 1.47 credit
FAS 1.36 credit
SSO 1.50 credit
TQQQ 1.38 credit
XLY 1.51 credit
Collected $2166.
Anyone knows the date of GOOGL financial report please. Tried many places and TOS do not show it.
Looks like the $QQQ, $XLK, and several tech stocks are forming bullish engulfing candles today. Look out above.
On the open today, closed on GTC order: $AAPL July 20th 195 call for .14. Sold for 1.37 on June 21st.
#LongCalls #LEAPS – Been wanting back in this one so earnings season probably as good a time as any…
5×4 ratio for now since there’s plenty of time left to get it all back…
Bought ERX JAN 17 2020 37.0 Calls @ 10.00
Sold ERX JUL 27 2018 37.5 Calls @ .95
#Earnings Bought to close $NFLX July 20th 360/350 put spreads for 1.00. Sold for 1.70 on Friday.
BTC NFLX July 20th 360 put for 1.43. Sold for 3.46 last week.
I have a single strangle remaining, 360/475, sold for 4.46 total. I will leave it to expire.
#pietrades
BTC 20 JUL 40 CALL @.05…STO 6/7 @ 0.81 credit as part of a roll…
STO 27 JUL 18 39 CALL @.50 when stock was at 37.17…
CB now at 39.07 with this latest sale and recent dividend… Originally assigned at 42.50
More pre-earnings trades
Bot BA Jul27 370c @ 3.35. GTC order to sell @ 4.70 (40% profit target)
Bot TTWO Aug3 128c @ 4.80. GTC order to sell @ 6.72 (40% profit target)
http://tm.cmlviz.com/index.php?share_key=20180717184758_ecjTvU5uaPtQ4V5G
2580 at $8.75
2680 at $17.20
BTC 2680 at $13.80
STO 2680 at $13.80
BTC 2680 at $8.80
STO 2680 at $8.80
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