I charted the S&P 500 ($SPX) after the markets closed on Friday, March 12, 2010, when the SPX closed at 1,149.99 for the week.
Month: March 2010
Opened UCO Put Calendar Spread
The stock market can make you laugh at yourself sometimes. UCO is playing its roll as the comedian today. In my post on Monday I mentioned that I was trying to work a calendar spread on UCO. I couldn’t get the limit order I wanted to work for me on a combined order so I broke it down and legged…
Penny Stock Trade
Occasionally when the markets are slow, like they’ve been recently, I mess around with a penny stock trade to try to make a little extra cash. The risks of complete loss are fairly high with these stocks compared to my normal trades so I don’t “play” with much. This is much more a game to play than…
Closed CSCO Position
My CSCO position started with a mistake. While getting used to the platform after switching my account to IB I mistakenly sold calls instead of a put, as if I hadn’t made hundreds of trades for years and didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t panic. Instead of closing out the short calls on…
Dow Jones Chart – Break Out Attempt
I charted the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA) after the markets closed on Friday, March 3, 2010 when the Dow finished the week at 10,566.20.
Sold JPM Naked Puts
Yesterday afternoon I place a few limit orders late in the trading day for new naked puts on three different underlying stocks and ETFs – UWM, ITRI and JPM. All of them were sitting at levels that I would have been comfortable selling the options, but I wanted to try for a little extra. I don’t…
End of Month Summary – February 2010
I’m pretty happy with how February worked out for me, especially considering that I’m not fully invested still. I finished February with a combined balance of $103,076.06 ($91,897.17 with IBKR and $11,178.89 with AMTD) which is up from my January finishing balance of $98,663.75. $1,500 of the increase is from the deposit I made on February 8th…