#SPX0dte Sold to open $SPX Jan 8th 5790/5810-5980/6000 condors for 1.45, delta 31.80%, deltas -.07 +.06
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SPY Expiration
My last SPY position
1 SPY 565/575 Bull Put Spread
SPY
Add ten points lower. Next order is 540 strike at 3.00.
Sold SPY Feb 21 2025 550.0 Put @ 3.00
MSTX Tiny Puts
Sold 1 MSTX 01/10/2025 35.0 Put at $0.20
Sold 1 MSTX 01/10/2025 31.0 Put at $0.10
VXX Calls
Sold 1 VXX 1/10/2025 60/50 Bear Call Spread at $0.28 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 1/10/2025 59/50.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.28 Credit
SPY
Here we go again. Starter at the 200 day.
Sold SPY Feb 21 2025 560.0 Put @ 3.35
NVDA
A couple small ones. One before earnings and one after.
Sold NVDA Feb 14 2025 125.0 Put @ 2.12
Sold NVDA Mar 21 2025 110.0 Put @ 2.44
TQQQ,
STO January 17, $70 puts at .46
CCI Stock
Started a tiny new position in CCI at $88.00
#SP500 #FallingKnife
TQQQ,
STO January 17, $75 puts at 1.21
AAP SPCE Tiny Puts
Sold 1 AAP 01/10/2025 42.5 Put at $0.07
Sold 1 SPCE 01/10/2025 6.0 Put at $0.07
#EveryLittleBitHelps
CONY YMAG YMAX
#dividends
BOT CONY @14.23
BOT YMAX @17.41
BOT YMAG @19.37
SPX 0-dte trades for 1/7/25
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Jan 7th 5905/5925-6045/6065 condors for 1.20, IV 22.10%, deltas -.05 +.08
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 565/575 Bull Put Spread
VXX
Sold 1 VXX 01/10/2025 65/49 Bear Call Spread at $0.25 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 01/10/2025 65/49.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.24 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 01/10/2025 63/49.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.23 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 01/10/2025 61/49.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.22 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 01/10/2025 41.5 Put at $0.14
PEP stock
Started a tiny position in PEP at $147.00
#SP500 #FallingKnife
SOXL Spread
Sold 1 SOXL 01/10/2025 40/36.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.26 Credit
CLF NUGT SOXL WBA PEP
Sold CLF 01/10/2025 10.5 Covered Calls at $0.06, $0.07 and $0.08
Sold NUGT 01/10/2025 41.5 Covered Calls at $0.15
Sold SOXL 01/10/2025 38.0 Covered Calls at $0.09
Sold WBA 01/10/2025 11.5 Covered Calls at $0.04
Sold 1 PEP 01/10/2025 143.0 Put at $0.14
#EveryLittleBitHelps
PLTR Put
$PLTR STO 1/10 75 put at .80
SPY
A move like today might as well take them all off even though these aren’t quite to 50 percent of max. My earliest sales and highest risk so closing anyway.
Bought to Close SPY Jan 17 2025 590.0 Put @ 2.22 (sold for 4.00)
Bought to Close SPY Jan 24 2025 580.0 Put @ 1.67 (sold for 3.25)
Bought to Close SPY Jan 31 2025 575.0 Put @ 2.07 (sold for 3.50)
Bought to Close SPY Feb 07 2025 565.0 Put @ 1.83 (sold for 3.00)
SPX Return By Year
AMZN META Calls
$AMZN STO 1/10 235 call at .51
$META STO 1/10 625 call at 3.50
SPY
Taking 50 percent of max or better in just a couple weeks.
Bought to Close SPY Jan 17 2025 580.0 Put @ 1.04 (sold for 3.05)
Bought to Close SPY Jan 17 2025 585.0 Put @ 1.59 (sold for 3.70)
Bought to Close SPY Jan 31 2025 565.0 Put @ 1.34 (sold for 3.38)
Bought to Close SPY Feb 21 2025 520.0 Put @ .85 (sold for 3.10)
Bought to Close SPY Feb 21 2025 530.0 Put @ 1.05 (sold for 3.00)
Bought to Close SPY Feb 21 2025 540.0 Put @ 1.33 (sold for 3.10)
Bought to Close SPY Feb 21 2025 550.0 Put @ 1.76 (sold for 4.05)
Bought to Close SPY Feb 21 2025 550.0 Put @ 1.78 (sold for 3.03)
Rolling up my long puts that I sell against for buying power help when the Feb crap show comes. LOL
Rolled SPY Mar 21 2025 200 Puts to Mar 21 2025 250 Puts @ .04 debit
QQQ
STO 1/8/25 537 calls @ .24 credit
(all previous QQQ Short calls expired worthless)
BIL
#parking cash
#dividends
BOT BIL @91.47
SPCE
#shortputs
SOLD SPCE 1 10 JAN 2025 6.5 PUT @.25
SPX 0-dte trades for 1/6/25
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Jan 6th 5900/5920-6040/6060 condors for 1.15, deltas -.07 +.05
Earnings 1/6 – 1/10
Econ Calendar 1/6 – 1/10
Some 3-bull action every day, including Thursday when market is closed in honor of President Carter.
SPX Expected Move
Follow up on Iceman’s chart. Tried and failed to get through the 50 day (red line) four times now. White lines are the expected move for next week. The horizontal blue line in Iceman’s chart is definitely the one to watch just outside the lower edge of the expected move. Just for clarity the thin light blue line on mine is where my daily SPX put sales currently sit and the thicker light blue line is the highest strike I’ve sold since starting the SPX strategy.
SPX Chart
FYI
Expirations
#optionsexpiration
$AMZN 227.5 call
$META 612.5 call
$TSLA 450 call
SOXL
#optionsexpiration
soxl 23.50 put
OptionsExpiration
A good start to 2025
Expired:
BOIL 66/61 Bear Call Spread
BOIL 65/60 Bear Call Spread
SPY 570/580 Bull Put Spread
VXX 59/48 Bear Call Spreads
VXX 58/48.5 Bear Call Spread
VXX 57/49 Bear Call Spread
VXX 60/49.5 Bear Call Spreads
VXX 63/50 Bear Call Spreads
VXX 60/54 Bear Call Spread
VXX 59/53 Bear Call Spread
VXX 44.0 Put
CLF 10.5 Covered Calls
NUGT 39 Covered Calls
SOXL 30 Covered Calls
WBA 12 Covered Calls
BAX 28 Put
CLF 8.5 Put
HAL 25.5 Put
MSTX 27 Put
MSTX 35 Put
SOXL 23.5 Put
VFC 19 Put
Assignments:
DVN 32.5 Covered Call – vs stock put to me at 31 on 12/20
DVN 33.0 Covered Call – vs stock put to me at 31.5 on 12/20
VXX Put
Sold 1 VXX 01/10/2025 43.5 Put at $0.75
VXX Calls
Bought to close VXX 56/48.5 Bear Call Spreads at $0.02
Sold VXX 01/10/2025 60/50 Bear Call Spreads at $0.36 Credit
Sold 1 VXX 01/10/2025 63/48.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.54 Credit
TLT
Not really comfortable with this one so taking small gains.
Bought to Close TLT Jan 17 2025 87.5 Put @ .85 (sold for 1.20)
Bought to Close TLT Jan 17 2025 88.0 Put @ 1.11 (sold for 1.42)
NVDA
Taking the gain on the big bounce today.
Bought to Close NVDA Jan 31 2025 120.0 Puts @ .77 (sold for 2.33)
SPX
Using the bounce today to get a decent roll down and out a couple more weeks.
EDIT: Forgot to add the strikes I rolled to. LOL
Rolled SPX Jan 17 2025 6030.0 Puts to Jan 31 2025 6010.0 Puts @ 1.50 credit (38.50 total now)
Rolled SPX Jan 17 2025 6030.0 Put to Jan 31 2025 6010.0 Put @ 1.40 credit (35.40 total now)
TLRY
#kickthecan
SOLD CALENDAR TLRY 100 20 JUN 2025/17 JAN 2025 3 PUT @.09
ADBE
Just one contract so I’ll play with it. All of this is before earnings. Setting up an inverted Jade Lizard.
Rolled ADBE Jan 17 2025 435.0 Put to Feb 21 2025 420.0 Put @ .50 debit (3.70 total now)
Sold ADBE Feb 21 2025 410/420 Bear Call Spread @ 6.40
No upside risk but very little profit. Downside breakeven now 409.90 and can roll this into earnings if needed to get everything lower.
BA
Taking my highest strikes off.
Bought to Close BA Jan 17 2025 170.0 Put @ 3.30 (sold for 3.75)
Bought to Close BA Jan 17 2025 172.5 Put @ 4.30 (sold for 5.00)
BOIL Call Rolled
Bought to close 1 BOIL 01/03/2025 59.0 Call at $0.11. Sold at $0.70 on 12/27
Replaced it by selling 1 BOIL 01/12025 61.0 Call at $1.25
SPY Puts
Sold 1 SPY 01/07/2025 565/575 Bull Put Spread at $0.36 Credit
SPX 0-dte trades for 1/3/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX 5805/5825-5965/5985 condors for 1.40, IV 27.16%, deltas -.06 +.06
Waited a bit after open before selling.
TQQQ,
BTC January 17, $65 puts at .35, I sold these yesterday at .76
VXX Calls Rolled
Rolled 1 VXX 01/03/2025 61/52.5 Bear Call Spread to 1 VXX 01/10/2025 61/53 Bear Call Spread at $0.31 Credit
Rolled the short strike up $0.50
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 612/595 Bear Call Spread
1 SPY 610/600 Bear Call Spread
1 SPY 569/581 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 535/579 Bull Put Spread
Starting the new year off right
TQQQ,
STO January 17, $65 puts at .76 cents below the 200 day MA
SPY Puts Rolled
Rolled 1 SPY 01/02/2025 570/580 Bull Put Spread to 1 SPY 01/06/2025 565/575 Bull Put Spread at $0.36 Credit
Lowered the short strike 5 points
BA
Add one to the ladder.
Sold BA Jan 17 2025 165.0 Put @ 2.30
PPG Stock
Started a tiny position in PPG at $117.00
#SP500 #FallingKnife
First SP500 stock at a new low in 2025
NVDA PLTR Put Roll
#shortputs
$NVDA BTC 1/3 138 put and STO 1/10 136 put at added credit of 1.20 and $2 less if called away.
$PLTR BTC 1/3 77 put and STO 1/10 76 put at added credit of .54 and $1 less if called away.
META Call
#syntheticcoveredcalls
$META STO 1/3 612.50 call at 1.41
VXX Puts
Rolled 1 VXX 01/03/2025 37/44.5 Bull Put Spread to 1 VXX 01/10/2025 39/43.5 Bull Put Spread at $0.29 Credit
Lowered the short strike a point and tightened up the spread risk
What happened to MSTX options
Cash Distribution (Capital Gains) Option Symbol: 12/31/2024
Defiance Daily Target 2x Long MSTR ETF (MSTX) has announced a short-term capital gains distribution of $14.42760884 per MSTX share.
SPX 0-dte trades for 1/2/25
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Jan 2nd 5815/5835-5985/6005 for 1.25, IV 28.35%, deltas -.06 +.06
Happy New Year everyone!
Sorry this is after the fact, if I had time I would feed you guys signals off the algo but alas my practice does not give me time to do that.
Anyway the algo went market down (does not mean short) since Dec 6 was the early signal and Dec 9 was the confirmed signal. Yes I know we were close to a record high after that but the algo is a leading indicator and looks at what is going on behind the scenes. Too much math to explain but it is smarter than me and looks at 21 trillion/data point calculations a second. Yes it is running on 3 NVDA 5000 servers. Any time I have betted against it I have lost.
Anyway we are still on a negative signal. Just be careful and since everyone else is bullish maybe not such a bad time to lean neutral/slightly bearish.
I will let you know when the algo spits out a buy signal but it might be a while. It is above 90% accuracy across the board. A few tickers we are at 96% accuracy and SPY/SPX/ES is one of those. QQQ is also very high at 94%.
Closed out the year by closing 3 different SPX butterflies for 9+k profits, nice little bonus for end of the year!
But yes I wish all of us a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2025! Let’s all make a truck load of money trading this year!!
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 555/575 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 565/575 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 571/581 Bull Put Spread
Happy New year everyone
FBY QYLD YBIT USOY
#redirectcash
SOLD FBY @19.16
#dividends
tIP BOT USOY @14.057
tIP BOT QYLD @18.23
#taxplanning
tIP SOLD YBIT @12.35
Happy Healthy Prosperous 2025
Thanks to everyone.
A great community.
NVDA Put
$NVDA SYO 3/21 2025 120 put at 6.10
SPY Spreads
Sold 1 SPY Jan 02 2025 569/579 Bull Put Spread at $0.48 Credit
Sold 1 SPY Jan 02 2025 600/595 Bear Call Spread at $0.12 Credit
Halted Trading in Symbol MSTX
Please be advised Trading on the Options Exchanges has Halted in Symbol MSTX as of 10:41
CLF Call
Sold 1 CLF Jan 03 2025 10.5 Covered Call at $0.03
#EveryLittleBitHelps
SPY Calls
Sold 1 SPY Jan 02 2025 610/600 Bear Call Spread at $0.20 Credit
MSTX Puts
Sold 1 MSTX Jan 03 2025 27 Put at $0.15
Sold 1 MSTX Jan 03 2025 35 Put at $0.35
Sold 1 MSTX Jan 10 2025 35 Put at $0.95
SPX 0-dte trades for 12/31/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Dec 31st 5815/5835-6000/6020 condors for 1.55, IV 32.17%, deltas -.05 +.07
EDIT: actually filled for 1.60, I guess as I was lowering my limit order to 1.55, it filled before I transmitted.
High vol and high premium today for 6-delta condor. Must be expecting end-of-year balancing.
Unplanned Market Closure
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 570/580 Bull Put Spread – sold at $0.30
SPY Puts
Sold 1 SPY 01/03/2025 570/580 Bull Put Spread at $0.55 Credit
Closed 1 SPY 12/30/2024 590/570 Bull Put Spread for $0.51.
Sold this on a roll on 12/20/2024 for $6.29 Credit
Made back most of what I lost on the spread I covered when I rolled
AMZN TSLA Call
#coveredcalls #syntheticcoveredcalls
$AMZN STO 1/3 227.50 call at .50
$TSLA STO 1/3 450 call at 4.20
VXX Calls
Sold 1 VXX Jan 03 2025 58/48.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.78 Credit
Tiny Puts for the new year
Sold 1 VFC Jan 03 2025 19 Put at $0.06
Sold 1 HAL Jan 03 2025 25.5 Put at $0.06
Sold CLF Jan 03 2025 8.5 Puts at $0.06
Sold 1 SOXL Jan 03 2025 23.5 Put at $0.09
Sold 1 BAX Jan 03 2025 28 Put at $0.10
#EveryLittleBitHelps
TSLY
#ADDINGDIVIDENDS on down day.
BOT TSLY @14.84
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