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To say this wasn’t a good options expiration for my account would be a bit of an understatement.  I have four puts that expired today on DIA, SPY, IWM and QCOM.  All finished in the money and not by just …

My original QCOM May $67.50 naked put fell deep in the money as the stock’s price dipped down to $61.27 yesterday intraday.  Along the way in its recent decline I haven’t thought about closing out my option early.  I’m still …

Those of you who have been reading My Trader’s Journal for a while know that I have a hard time staying out of Qualcomm (QCOM) for very long.  As many times as I’ve been in and out of it, I …

If only all options expiration days went this well for me.  This month’s expiring options included a handful of index ETF LEAPS that I sold 10-13 months ago and other random naked puts and covered calls sold over the past …

Options expiration finished pretty good for me on a few positions, but really bad on a couple of others that wiped out my gains on the good ones and then some.  This is how it shook out this month:

UCO – …

October has been a good options expiration for me.  Six out of seven positions are closing for a profit.

NFLX – Bear $130/140 Call Spread – This one worked even better than planned.  I could’ve been more aggressive, but am happy …

After taking option assignments on a few positions at August’s option expiration I’ve stayed long with no covered calls on any of my newly acquired stocks.  That changed today.  QCOM is getting close to my purchase price and while I …

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 …

I’ve mentioned a couple of times recently that I was considering QCOM as one of my next trades.  I finally got around to it today.  While QCOM was trading at $54.27 I sold one QCOM August $52.50 naked put for …