I had two options expire today. One was an MDY April $350 naked put and the other was an AAPL April $175 covered call. The AAPL covered call finished deep in the money. I should’ve dealt with it a few weeks ago, but just didn’t keep my focus on my own account as much as…
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Options Expiration – February 2019
My one XLB February $52 covered call was my only option I had that expired today and it’s $2.24 in the money as I write this mid-morning on Friday. I’m letting it expire in the money and my 100 shares of XLB will be called away. I’ll end up with a realized gain of $218.66,…
Options Expiration – January 2019
I only have options on two stocks that are expiring today, AAPL and ADI. The two AAPL January $200 covered calls far out of the money that will expire worthless and give me a realized gain of $491.23. AAPL was trading at $177.41 when I sold these calls two months ago. This morning it’s closer…
Sold One AAPL Covered Call
Yesterday, I wrote that I planned to sell a covered call on half of my AAPL shares along with a new naked put on MDY. The pair would set me up to be on margin potentially if the call wasn’t assigned and the put was. I decided to hold off on the MDY put part of…
Month End Summary – November 2018
November was one of the worst trading months for my account that I can remember, outside of the bubble bust last decade. My biggest losses came from GS and AAPL after they dropped off a cliff. I took a realized loss on FB too, but most of that loss came before November. I just took…
Fall Clean-Up
Sometimes you have to accept that you were wrong. I accepted that a while ago on GS and FB, but not to the point of doing something about it until yesterday. A few days ago, I mentioned I was debating my next steps with FB and GS and I finally swallowed my pride and took…
Sold Another AAPL Naked Put
Nearly two weeks ago when I made my naked put trade on AAPL for the December $210 naked put, I thought I changed my order that I originally entered, but I didn’t. Apparently, I left the first order in and it hit two days later on December 19. While AAPL was trading at$218.87, I sold…
Options Expiration – October 2018
My outlook is generally bullish year in and year out and that’s why I’m an investor. I know that stocks tend to go up most years, but the down years are brutal and that’s why I invest with options. This year I’ve missed a lot of upside from being too cautious and I missed some…
Sold December AAPL Naked Put
My AAPL October $205 naked put is set to expire worthless in a couple days and mid-day today I figured I should go ahead and enter a limit order to sell a new contract. My October put option has a bid/ask of $0.08/0.09 and I don’t think it’ll be assigned, so I’m letting it run…