I had a mixed options expiration for December with two of my options expiring while the underlying stock was trading above the strike and the other two finished below the strike. Here are the details: MDY December 145 naked put – This one finished far out of the money and allowed me to let it…
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Options Expiration – October 2010
I only have a few options expiring today with mixed results. The rest of my portfolio is weighted to November’s expiration. If nothing drastic happens in the next few trading days, I’ll start working towards building up my options for December’s expiration and move deeper into potential margin, all the while hoping that any correction is…
New Covered Calls on ITRI, AVAV, & CSX
I’ll admit I got a little excited about the prospects of a little rally this morning while I was long so many positions still open long without covered calls. That misplaced euphoria vanished quickly as the markets retreated. By noon I had already sold three covered calls and I’m still debating some others. While ITRI was…
Options Expiration – August 2010
Today’s option expiration finished somewhat differently than I thought it was going to as of a week ago. Here’s the breakdown of how it went down: VXX, two August 24 Puts – I’ll be assigned 200 shares of VXX on Monday morning. Instead of trying to roll these puts I sold covered calls on the shares…
AVAV Price and Value Charts
I have AVAV covered calls expiring tomorrow and it looks like I’ll be holding onto my shares, i.e. the options are out of the money by more than 6% with one day to go. I’ve been debating what I should do; exit my position now or hold on for one more round of covered calls….
Sold AVAV Covered Calls
I tried to sell my AVAV shares on Monday, but it didn’t make it high enough to hit my limit order so today I changed my plan. I decided to keep the shares and sell covered calls instead. While AVAV was trading at $24.75 my order finally hit and I sold two AVAV August 25 covered…
June Options Expiration
I ended up making a few option trades today, but not exactly as I planned to yesterday. I started off this morning with CVS. I traded CVS a while ago and been waiting for another good entry point. They’ve been down on news of their “fight” with Walgreens. News came out that they appear to…
Sold AVAV June Naked Puts & Exited T
Barron’s reran a bullish article on AeroVironment, Inc (AVAV) in today’s print edition that they ran last Tuesday online. After the article first came out AVAV got a nice bounce and then settled down by the weekend. I expected it to see a little more upside today after the reprint and that’s what we saw. The story was…