I had a mixed options expiration for May. While two of my naked puts finished with a full profit, the third contract lost more than I gained on the first two. My one IWM May $159 naked put expired worthless and since it wasn’t close to being assigned, I left it to devalue without closing…
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Options Expiration – March 2018
My March options were mixed. I took an early assignment on my WMT naked put as I wrote about yesterday. I’ll also take an assignment on my XLB March $63 naked put. In the positive column, I’ll take a full profit on my GS March $265 naked put to give me a realized gain of…
Sold IWM Naked Put for March
My account was void of any index funds and I was looking for another individual stock to sell an option on, but felt I had been waiting too long and opted to come back to the easy trade on an index ETF while I continue to look for individual stocks. QQQ and IWM are usually…
Options Expiration – January 2018
I only had two options left to expire today, one IWM January $148 naked put and one QQQ January $153 naked put. Both are far out of the money and will expire worthless. I’ll have a realized gain of $340.32 on the IWM put and $286.32 on the QQQ put. IWM was trading at $148.59…
Options Expiration – November 2017
I’m slammed for time today, so just a very brief update to offer for now. I had one QQQ November $149 naked put expire worthless today and replaced. While QQQ was trading at $154.28, I sold one QQQ January $153 naked put for $2.87 and received $286.32 after paying $0.68 in commission. I had one…
Options Expiration – October 2017
The only two October naked put options I had remaining expired worthless today. IWM finished the week at $149.99, well above my October $137 strike. QQQ finished the week at $148.74, also far above my October $142 strike. I should’ve rolled these earlier, but wasn’t bullish enough to pull the trigger. Now I need to…
Sold November IWM and QQQ Naked Puts
My three options set to expire in October are all out of the money (two are far out of the money and one is close to the money) and I really should’ve traded these two earlier to roll them higher, but I haven’t put the focus needed on my own account much lately. That brought…
Closed IWM September Naked Put
The order I placed last week to close my IWM September naked put hit this morning. I placed the order to eke out a few dollars profit, but ended up doing better as IWM gapped higher at the open. While IWM was trading at $140.39, I bought to close one IWM September $142 naked put…
Sold IWM October Naked Put
I was focused on my other taxable account today, but was doing my research on Interactive Brokers’ platform, where keep this account. When I decided on my trade, I made it in this account I blog about instead of my TD Ameritrade account. Luckily, I wasn’t overly allocated to small caps in the My Trader’s…