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Not that it’s a surprise to anyone, but this is not a good options expiration Friday for my account.  All of my naked puts finished in the money and all of my covered calls finished out of the money.

These are …

June wasn’t the prettiest options expiration I’ve had.  My covered calls expired out of the money leaving me farther below my purchase price for the shares and my puts expired in the money.  That’s basically the opposite of how I …

On Friday I pointed out my regret for not closing out my ITRI position when I had a chance to exit for a few bucks.  That bit me a little harder this morning as ITRI fell deeper than Friday’s close. …

I had short options on four different stocks/ETFs that expired today.  All were profitable and I plan to work with all of them again for either May or June expiration options.  My only April option that wasn’t profitable was QCOM …

Once again Itron, Inc. (ITRI) has called my name and I’ve answered.  I mentioned yesterday that I was thinking about making this trade and today I put those thoughts into action.  While ITRI was trading at $56.95 I sold one …

I thought Itron (ITRI) was going to find some stability once the market righted itself, European worries eased and the risk trade came back on, but the reverse happened.  ITRI fell hard with Goldman Sachs’ downgrade today.  I saw it drop, …

I mentioned on Friday that I needed to add some more exposure and took advantage of this morning’s extended slide to sell more naked puts.  I started with Itron (ITRI).  After I rolled my covered calls lower a week ago …

I’ve been trying to decide what to do with my VXX position for weeks, if not months.  Finally this weekend I figured out a plan that limited my downside and left a good bit of upside potential.  I started off …

I bought back my Itron, Inc. (ITRI) October 60 covered calls on Friday, but waited until today to have access to the December options to sell new calls.  I think ITRI is on the come back and so this time I …