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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 …

Options expiration was mixed again for me this month.  I only had four options expire today on three underlying stocks/ETFs – UWM, UCO and AFL.  Starting with the good, two of my naked puts expired worthless.  On the other side …

This morning I was looking at my TD Ameritrade (AMTD) account and started thinking that I had some more room to add exposure there since the LEAPS I sold months ago are far from being assigned.  I don’t have a …

I almost made this trade yesterday while I was thinking of it, but luckily I chose to wait a day and was able to get in with a slightly better premium on the put.  I don’t think the call lost …

As I mentioned when I sold this covered call I wasn’t really convinced it was the right order to place.  I cut off my upside potential too low and had seller’s remorse right away.  I almost bought it back a …

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 …

In a comment yesterday I mentioned that I thought about selling a new naked put on UCO all day, but every time I looked at the chart for the ultra oil ETF it was down another 20 or 30 cents …

After delaying far too long, I finally got back into UCO this morning.  If you recall my statement on Monday, I said I had planned to get in to UCO then, but decided to wait and might regret not getting …

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 …