Added some more long VXX 01/17/2025 24.00 Puts at $0.06.
#VXXContango
Recent Updates Page 56
SPX 0-dte trades for 9/25/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open 5660/5680-5770/5790 condors for 1.00, IV 16.11%, deltas -.07 +.06
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 532/542 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 547/565 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 565 Diagonal Put
Closed 1 SPY 578/571 Bear Call Spread at $0.10. Was due to expire until 2 minutes before the close
VXX Long Term Puts
Bought VXX Jan 17 2025 24.0 Puts at $0.11, $0.10, $0.08 and $0.07
#VXXContango
MU SOXS JDST Puts
Sold 1 MU SEP 27 2024 74 Put at $0.08
Sold 1 SOXS Sep 27 2024 19 Put at $0.11
Sold 1 JDST Sep 27 2024 23 Put at $0.25
#Tiny99PercentPuts
QQQ
#CoveredCalls QQQ 25 Sep 24 492 Call 1DTE – Sold at .55, Theta Decay in Play
Econ Calendar update
Guess I gotta check for updates more often. The current sharp drop seems driven by “CB Consumer Confidence” Data released at 10am ET, which was not on calendar when I copied it into the menu above but is there on Bloomberg’s site now.
SPX 0-dte trades for 9/24/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Sept 24th 5690/5720-5725/5755 condors for 14.70, IV 17.70%
Premium was pretty low for the wide condor so I skipped it.
SPX
Rolled SPX Oct 18 2024 5610.0 Puts to Oct 18 2024 5630.0 Puts @ 3.70 credit (20.70 total now)
Upside Warning now in effect
#VIXindicator The last Upside Warning fired on Aug 13 when SPX was 6% above the latest low, and peaked on Aug 26 at 10.4% above the low, so it caught over 4% of upside. Currently the SPX is 6% above the Sept 6th low.
SPY Expirations
SPY 533/543 Bull Put Spread
SPY 566 Diagonal Put
SPY 577/571 Bear Call Spread
SPY Diagonal Put
Bought 1 SPY 09/25/2024 551 Put / Sold 1 SPY 09/24/2024 565 Put at $0.18 Credit
#EveryLittleBitHelps
VKTX Put
Adding
$VKTX STO 9/27 66 put at 1.80
VXX Calls – SPY Puts
Sold 1 VXX 09/27/2024 60/50 Bear Call Spread at $0.52 Credit
Balancing the risk of the VXX Put spread from earlier today
Bought 1 SPY 09/24/2024 547 Put at $0.02 / Sold 1 SPY 09/23/2024 566 Put at $0.16 for a $0.14 Diagonal Credit.
I’ve got other Put and Call Spreads on SPY expiring today.
Sold 1 SPY 09/27/2024 552/562 Bull Put Spread at $0.83 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/60/2024 550/560 Bull Put Spread at $0.77 Credit
VXX Puts
Bought 1 VXX Jan 17 2025 30.0 Put / Sold 1 VXX Sep 29 2024 47.0 Put at $0.24 Credit
Financing another long term #VXXContango Put
SPX 0-dte for 9/23/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Sept 23rd 5630/5650-5755/5775 condors for 1.45, IV 19.88%, deltas -.07 +.07
IBIT options
SEC approves options trading for BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)
Earnings 9/23 – 9/27
Economic Calendar 9/23 – 9/27
OptionsExpiration
SPY 460/515 Bull Put Spread
SPY 540/551 Bull Put Spread
SPY 576/571 Bear Call Spread
TQQQ 47/57 Bull Put Spread
TQQQ 48/58 Bull Put Spread
TQQQ 49/58 Bull Put Spread
TQQQ 76/71 Bear Call Spread
TQQQ 76/72.5 Bear Call Spread
TQQQ 71 Covered Call
VXX 70/57 Bear Call Spread
VXX 70/60 Bear Call Spread
VXX 46.5 Diagonal Put
VXX 46 Diagonal Put
NUGT 60/55 Bear Call Spread
NUGT 41/45 Bull Put Spread
NUGT 43 Put
UPS 115/123/132/141 Iron Condor
DLTR 56/71/74/80 Iron Condor
DLTR 80/75 Bear Call Spread
AMZN 177.5 Diagonal Put
AMZN 167.5/175 Bull Put Spread
VFC 21/19 Bear Call Spread
BBY 108/101 Bear Call Spread
BBY 109/102 Bear Call Spread
AVGO 172.5 Diagonal Call
AVGO 147 Diagonal Put
BOIL 11 Covered Calls
CLF 12.5 Covered Calls
FCX 46 Covered Call
WBA 10.5 Covered Calls
CVS 64 Covered Call
BEN 17.5 Put
EL 84 Put
MOS 24 Put
SQQQ 7.5 Put
Expiration TQQQ / VKTX Puts
#optionsexpiration
$TQQQ 65 put
$VKTX 64 put
#shortputs
$TQQQ STO 9/27 68 put at .96
$VKTX STO 9/27 68 put at .1.90
SOXL META GS
#optionsexpiration
SOXL 52 call
SOXL 26 put
META 485/487.5 put
#shortputs
#everylittlebithelps
SOLD GS 27 SEP 2024 470/467.5 PUT @.08
SPY Calls and Puts
Sold 1 SPY 10/11/2024 505/535 Bull Put Spread at $0.75 Credit
Extending the Put Ladder
Sold 1 SPY 09/23/2024 577/571 Bear Call Spread at $0.52 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/24/2024 578/571 Bear Call Spread at $0.77 Credit
Replacing old calls lost to assignment
SPY
Buying these to sell against on the next implosion. Far enough out to cover all the election drama also.
Bought to Open SPY Mar 21 2025 200.0 Puts @ .28
Bought to Open SPY Mar 21 2025 250.0 Puts @ .47
SPX
Let’s give Mr. Market something to think about.
Rolled SPX Oct 18 2024 5600.0 Puts to Oct 18 2024 5610.0 Puts @ 2.00 credit (17.00 total now)
New positions are currently about 32 long deltas and 425 theta overall including the LEAPS.
Fun fact: 5630 is the highest strike I’ve ever sold so almost there.
TQQQ Calls
Sold 1 TQQQ 09/27/2024 76/71.5 Bear Call Spread at $0.75 Credit
GS
#everylittlebithelps
SOLD GS 27 SEP 2024 470/467.5 PUT @.08
BA SNOW XLU
BA and SNOW synthetic long and XLU synthetic short.
Bought to Close BA Sep 20 2024 157.5 Calls @ .07 (sold for 8.75)
Sold BA Sep 27 2024 155.0 Calls @ 2.47
Bought to Close SNOW Sep 20 2024 114.0 Calls @ .21 (sold for 4.65)
Sold SNOW Sep 27 2024 110.0 Calls @ 3.86
Bought to Close XLU Sep 20 2024 75.0 Puts @ .01 (sold for .26)
Sold XLU Sep 27 2024 77.5 Puts @ .28
SPY Calls
Sold these to start making back some of my SPY loss:
Sold 1 SPY 09/20/2024 576/571 Bear Call Spread at $0.51 Credit – expires today
Sold 1 SPY 09/25/2024 579/571 Bear Call Spread at $1.67 Credit
TQQQ,
I rolled my Sept. 20, 71 calls up to Sept. 27, 75 calls for a debit of .02 and could have done them even if I had waited.
SPY early assignments
I thought I had moved my short SPY calls out far enough to avoid assignment on the ex-date today, but the yesterday’s big 10 point move pushed them too far into the money and nuked all the remaining time premium.
Assigned on 1 SPY 09/27/2024 556 Call and on 1 SPY 09/30/2024 551 Call.
With the stock closing at $570.90 I was looking at a big loss.
Luckily I was able to cover the short stock at $567.97 in the pre-market.
Better, but not great.
SPX 0-dte trades for 9/20/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX 5610/5630-5775/5795 condors for 1.10, IV 25.11%, deltas -.06, +.05. I went a strike further on call side just to reduce risk on a Friday in a week with strong profit already.
SPX
#SyntheticShortStock – After looking things over for awhile I’m hanging on to the rest of the positions. Instead of rolling the daily put sales back in and up decided to leave them in the Oct monthly and just roll up there. Gives me few a more long deltas overall but plenty of room (half the expected move) for a drop while collecting good premium and theta.
Rolled SPX Oct 18 2024 5570.0 Puts to Oct 18 2024 5600.0 Puts @ 5.00 credit (15.00 total now)
SPX
#SyntheticShortStock – Due to the big rally today the deltas are starting to flip short. As an experiment closing my oldest position just to see what sort of fills I get in the LEAPS with the wide bid/ask. Turned out better than I expected getting filled just slightly worse than the mid.
Final numbers:
Initial trade:
Opened Dec 2027 5000/5000/5400 synthetic short at 225.00 debit
Closed Dec 2027 5000/5000/5400 synthetic short at 8.80 credit (this includes closing Oct 18th 5570 strike daily put sale)
Net loss on LEAPS of 216.20
Total premium received on daily sales of 427.15
Net gain of 210.95
Not bad with a synthetic short in a straight up market.
SPY Puts 0DTE
Sold 1 SPY 09/19/2024 560/565 Bull Put Spread at $0.23 Credit
SPX 0-dte trades for 9/19/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Sept 19th 5580/5600-5750/5770 condors for 1.90, IV 25.40%, deltas -.10, +.06
TQQQ,
I bought to open the Stock of TQQQ and will write covered calls on a weekly basis.
SOXL ULTY YMAX
#.06Delta
SOLD SOXL 20 SEP 2024 26 PUT @.10
#smallbuy
#dividends
BOT ULTY @11.25
BOT YMAX @17.57
#rolling
SOLD – MARA 20 SEP 2024 18 PUT/ 27 SEP 2024/@.18
SPY GLD Expirations
1 SPY 518/555 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 541/551 Bull Put Spread
Did roll a couple of call spreads out a few days (got spooked by the big surge after the announcement. One of the Bear call spreads would have expired)
1 GLD 230/234/242/246 Iron Condor
1 GLD 228/234 Bull Put Spread
SPY Puts for tomorrow
Sold 1 SPY 09/16/2024 541/551 Bull Put Spread at $0.15 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/16/2024 540/550 Bull Put Spread at $0.17 Credit
#EveryLittleBitHelps
.50% cut
Ooops
SPX
Selling iron fly for today at half the expected move. Risking a little of my SPY profits from earlier this week.
Sold today’s 5615/5640/5640/5665 @ 21.80
SPY Puts
Extending my SPY Put ladder while premiums are high
Sold 1 SPY 09/24/2024 532/542 Bull Put Spread at $0.36 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/24/2024 531/541 Bull Put Spread at $0.52 Credit
SPX 0-dte trades 9/18/24
#SPX0dte Well, taking the shot at an unpredictable move but high premium.
Sold to Open $SPX Sept 18th 5600/5630-5635/5665 condors for 25.05.
Risking 4.95, which is just a bit more in my profit so far this week. For now I’m targeting to close at 20.00, for 5.05 profit. But I’ll keep an eye on the day and maybe take profits early if there’s some decay. On the announcement and/or press conference, premium can drop super fast, and if we are not too far from the center point, 20.00 should not be a problem. But if we are far from center, I can either brace for a drift back through center or take a loss smaller than 4.95.
SPY Puts for tomorrow
Sold 1 SPY 09/18/2024 541/551 Bull Put Spread at $0.21 Credit
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 09/17/2024 551/558 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 09/17/2024 553/559 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 09/17/2024 553/560 Bull Put Spread
All sold today.
#EveryLittleBitHelps
SPY Put Ladder
Sold 1 SPY 09/20/2024 540/551 Bull Put Spread at $1.03 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/23/2024 533/543 Bull Put Spread at $0.33 Credit
GLD TQQQ SPY Spreads
Sold 1 GLD 09/18/2024 230/234 Bull Put Spread at $0.13 Credit
Wednesday expiration
Sold 1 TQQQ 09/20/2024 76/71 Bear Call Spread at $0.57 Credit
Sold 1 TQQQ 09/20/2024 49/58 Bull Put Spread at $0.14 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/17/2024 553/560 Bull Put Spread at $0.25 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/17/2024 553/559 Bull Put Spread at $0.19 Credit
#0DTE
Downside Warning canceled
#VIXindicator The Downside Warning was canceled at the open, due to the SPX exceeding 5651, which was the high between the last Upside & Downside warnings.
SPX 0-dte for 9/17/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX 5560/5580-5700/5720 condors for 1.20, IV 22.32%, deltas -.06 +.06, at 9:18am ET
SPY GLD Expiration
1 SPY 536/546 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 545/555 Bull Put Spread
1 GLD 245/241 Bear Call Spread
GLD Calls
Sold 1 GLD 09/18/2024 246/242 Bear Call Spread at $0.31 Credit
Wednesday’s expiration
VXX Spreads
Bought 1 VXX Jan 17 2025 27.0 Put / Sold 1 VXX Sep 20 2024 47.5 Put at $0.13 Credit
Bought 1 VXX Jan 17 2025 28.0 Put / Sold 1 VXX Sep 20 2024 46.5 Put at $0.05 Credit
Financing the Jan #VXXContango purchases
Sold 1 VXX Sep 20 2024 70/57 Bear Call Spread at $0.53 Credit
Offsetting the Put risk
Monday Spreads
1 AMZN 167.5/177.5 Bull Put Spread at $0.33 Credit
1 AVGO 136/148 Bull Put Spread at $0.16 Credit
Bought 1 AVGO 09/27/2024 130 Put / Sold 1 AVGO 09/20/2024 147 Put at $0.24 Credit
1 TQQQ 47/57 Bull Put Spread at $0.14 Credit
Sold 1 DLTR 80/75 Bear Call Spread at $ 0.26 Credit
Bought 1 BBY 09/27/2024 105 Call / Sold 1 BBY 09/20/2024 101 Call at $0.15 Credit
TQQQ, STO September 20, $66…
TQQQ, STO September 20, $66 puts at 2.31
SPY
Back close to all time highs so taking the gains.
Bought to Close SPY Sep 27 2024 525.0 Put @ .53 (sold for 3.33)
Bought to Close SPY Oct 4 2024 525.0 Put @ 1.06 (sold for 3.50)
Bought to Close SPY Oct 11 2024 525.0 Put @ 1.63 (sold for 4.00)
Bought to Close SPY Oct 18 2024 490.0 Put @ .72 (sold for 3.00)
Bought to Close SPY Oct 18 2024 500.0 Put @ .95 (sold for 3.50)
Bought to Close SPY Oct 18 2024 515.0 Put @ 1.52 (sold for 3.60)
NVDA
Not really interested in owning this up here so taking what I can get.
Bought to Close NVDA Sep 20 2024 105.0 Put @ .37 (sold for 1.78)
Bought to Close NVDA Sep 20 2024 110.0 Put @ 1.20 (sold for 2.65)
Bought to Close NVDA Sep 20 2024 115.0 Put @ 3.15 (sold for 3.95)
SPY Puts
Sold 1 SPY 09/16/2024 545/555 Bull Put Spread at $0.20 Credit
#EveryLittleBitHelps
SPX 0-dte for 9/16/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Sept 16th 5535/5555-5670/5690 condors for 1.30, IV 22.12%, deltas -.07 +.07. A bit tighter on deltas than normal, looking for sideways day with no economic news and traders waiting for Wednesday Fed decision.
NUGT GLD
Sold 1 NUGT 09/20/2024 60/55 Bear Call Spread at $0.42 Credit
Sold 1 GLD 09/16/2024 245/251 Bear Call Spread at $0.24 Credit
OptionsExpiration
CLF 16 Covered Calls
FCX 43 Covered Call
SOXL 34 Covered Calls
MOS 24 Put
HES 125 Put
HES 118 Put
AAP 35 Put
APA 23.5 Put
SPY 534 Put
SPY 570/565 Bear Call Spread
BBY 115/100 Bear Call Spread
CVS 70/64 Bear Call Spread
DLTR 76/72 Bear Call Spread
VXX 80/60 Bear Call Spread
VXX 75/57 Bear Call Spread
APA 20/23 Bull Put Spread
AVGO 130/141 Bull Put Spread
AVGO 129/137 Bull Put Spread
DG 75/84 Bull Put Spreads
HES 120/125 Bull Put Spread
HES 120/124 Bull Put Spread
NUGT 33/42.5 Bull Put Spread
Assignments:
1 TQQQ 61 Covered Call – vs stock put to me last week at $57
Earnings 9/16 – 9/20
Economic Calendar 9/16 – 9/20
Retail sales on Tuesday, then the biggie: FOMC decision on Wednesday afternoon.
Downside Warning may be done
#VIXindicator Just need a $VIX close below 16.46
SPY 0-dte
Sold 1 SPY 09/13/2024 570/565 Bear Call Spread at $0.20 Credit
#EveryLittleBitHelps
SPX 0-dte for 9/13/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Sept 13th 5505/5525-5665/5685 condors for 1.15, IV 24.20%, deltas -.06 +.05
SPY Expiration
1 SPY 09/12/2024 539/548 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 09/12/2024 548 Diagonal Put
SOXL Stock
Selling the SOXL stock at $32.42 that was put to me last Friday at $28.00
The original #Tiny99PercentPut did not work as designed, but I like this result better 🙂
New SPY Put Ladder
Sold 1 SPY 09/12/2024 539/548 Bull Put Spread at $0.36 Credit – Expires today
Sold 1 SPY 09/13/2024 537/547 Bull Put Spread at $0.64 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/16/2024 536/546 Bull Put Spread at $0.78 Credit
Sold 1 SPY 09/17/2024 535/545 Bull Put Spread at $0.86 Credit
SPX 0-dte trades for 9/12/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX Sept 12th 5460/5480-5615/5635 condors for 1.383, IV 26.06%, deltas -.06 +.06
Stocks early today
Tiny Buys at new lows:
DVN at $40.00
NUE at $137.00
HES at $125.00
SLB at $39.00
BEN at $19.00
APA at $23.00
OXY at $50.00
#SP500 #FallingKnife
SPY Expiration
Another good day when I didn’t have to roll anything 🙂
1 SPY 528/536 Bull Put Spread
1 SPY 532/538 Bull Put Spread
SPY 560/556 Bear Call Spreads
TQQQ,
BTO October 18, 65 calls at 4.00, taking a chance that the PPI will be an okay number and we are closing above the 5,8,and 10 day MA
SPX 0-dte trades for 9/11/24
#SPX0dte Sold to Open $SPX 5385/5405-5555/5575 condors for 1.35, IV 29.67%, deltas -.06 +.05, at 8:50a ET
CPI up 0.2% in August
From cnbc.com:
Prices increased as expected in August while the annual inflation rate declined to its lowest level since February 2021, according to a Labor Department report Wednesday that sets the stage for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in a week.
The consumer price index, a broad measure of goods and services costs across the U.S. economy, increased 0.2% for the month, in line with the Dow Jones consensus.
That put the 12-month inflation rate at 2.5%, down 0.4 percentage point from the July level and compared to the estimate for 2.6%.
However, so-called core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased 0.3% for the month, slightly higher than the 0.2% estimate. The 12-month core inflation rate was 3.2%, in line with the forecast.
This is breaking news. Please check back for updates.
