Archive for: July 2011

I charted daily prices for the past year on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA, $INDU, $DJI) after it closed on Friday, July 29, 2011 at 12,143.24.  When I posted a DJIA chart two weeks ago I …

Over two weeks ago, on the morning of July 13th (the same day I sold my last UCO naked put), I was looking at my TD Ameritrade (AMTD) account and was thinking that I still had …

I exited my last VNQ position in February when my covered calls expired and I sold my shares at the $55 strike.  I waited a little while to make sure the wash rule …

I charted a little more than the past six months of the S&P 500′s ($SPX) daily prices after it finished the week at 1,345.02 on Friday, July 22, 2011.  After falling to its lowest levels of July, the large cap …

In my post from earlier today I mentioned that I had a limit order out for a new MVV naked put.  Since it had been sitting out there for an hour or more before I wrote my last post I …

This week has been busy for me.  I had a lot of option expire for clients last Friday and spent some time in the first part of the week repositioning their holdings and by the second half of the week …

I charted daily prices for the past year on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA, $INDU, $DJI) after it closed on Friday, July 15, 2011 at 12,479.73.  The DJIA came close to its multi-year high a little over a week …

Options expiration was mixed again for me this month.  I only had four options expire today on three underlying stocks/ETFs – UWM, UCO and AFL.  Starting with the good, two of my naked puts expired worthless.  On the other side …

This morning I was looking at my TD Ameritrade (AMTD) account and started thinking that I had some more room to add exposure there since the LEAPS I sold months ago are far from being assigned.  I don’t have a …