I opened $FTNT 20240726 55.0 PUT$  ,FTNT: collect 1% premium on this cash secured put on FTNT. The strike was at $55 which is about 6% lower than current market price. Duration of contract is for 32 days expiring 26th July. There is an upcoming earning on 1st Aug which I need to pay attention to for IV spike but this contract will expire the week before it. Potentially setting up for a replacement options of this one expire worthless.

I opened $TSLA 20240726 215.0 CALL$  ,TSLA: collect 1.5% premium on this covered call for TSLA with strike $215 which is about 16% higher than current market price. The contract duration is for 30 days expiring on 26th July. Tesla had been ranged bound since the initial pop after earnings in late April. Technicals are still bearish and trading below its main 200 days MA by significant margin. Sold the covered call above this 200 days MA for margin of safety while still collection acceptable level of premium.

I opened $TSLA 20240719 210.0 CALL$  ,TSLA: collect 1.2% premium on this covered call for TSLA with strike $220 which is about 13% higher than current market price. The contract duration is for 24 days expiring on 19th July. Tesla had been ranged bound since the initial pop after earnings in late April. Technicals are still bearish and trading below its main 200 days MA by significant margin. Sold the covered call above this 200 days MA for margin of safety while still collection acceptable level of premium.

I opened $ANF 20240719 157.5 PUT$  ,ANF: collect 1.65% premium on this cash secured put for ANF with strike $157.50 which is about 9% lower than current market price. The contract duration is for 25 days expiring on 19th July. ANF had came down about 12% lower off its recent peak with few bearish days along with the general market. The company are still highly profitable within its category. Taking opportunity of the weaker market these few days to sell new puts at lower levels to earn premium.

I opened $RCL 20240719 145.0 PUT$  ,RCL: collect 1.1% premium on RCL on this cash secured put. The strike was chosen at breakeven point at $145 so not much science there. Duration of contract is 25 days expiring on 19th July. RCL consolidates above the $145 levels after breakout on the 20th May. The counter is still very bullish and could be heading higher retesting all time highs.

I opened $ANF 20240712 160.0 PUT$  ,ANF: collect 1.3% premium on this cash secured put on AnF. The strike was set at $160 and expiring on 12th July which is 18 days away. ANF shows bearishness in the past week after forming a double top on 13th June. I’m net short on ANF so I’m happy to close the shorts again lower levels.

I opened $SMH 20240726 240.0 PUT$  ,SMH: collect 1.25% premium on this SMH cash secured put with strike at $240 and expiring on 26th July which is 32 days away. The delta was set at 0.2 to allow for room for the ETF to be able to move down a little before triggering. SMH had a sharp reversal on the 20th June and had confirmation on the next day after closing lower. Will monitor for this potential reversal for signs of consolidation to close the trade at better pricing.

I opened $SMH 20240719 242.5 PUT$  ,SMH: collect 1.15% premium on this SMH cash secured put with strike at $242.5 and expiring on 19th July which is 25 days away. The delta was set at 0.2 to allow for room for the ETF to be able to move down a little before triggering. SMH had a sharp reversal on the 20th June and had confirmation on the next day after closing lower. Will monitor for this potential reversal for signs of consolidation to close the trade at better pricing.

I opened $AAPL 20240802 200.0 PUT$  ,AAPL: collect 1.1% premium for this cash secured put with strike at $200 and contract expiry on 2nd Aug which is 39 days away. AAPL made its new high on 12th June and showed some consolidation in the last week.

I closed $DPZ 20240621 545.0 CALL$  ,DPZ: this is the 2nd leg of the bear call where the buy call expired worthless as intended. Collected $85 or 17% per contract on this bear call on Domino Pizza after holding for 31 days. The strikes were set at $540/$545. The counter ranged between $500 to $540 with $540 being resistant and double top. The last 2 sessions were bearish so it pull the stock down therefore ensuring full collection on these premiums.

I closed $TSLA 20240621 200.0 CALL$  ,TSLA: collected 1% premium on this covered call after holding for 32 days. TSLA had been consolidating since mid April with little movement. Happy to collect some premium while waiting for TSLA to recover if ever. Will sell new calls in coming days/weeks to replaced this expired ones.

I closed $SOFI 20240621 8.0 CALL$  ,SoFI: collected 1.8% premium on SoFi when the covered call expired worthless after holding for 43 days. SoFI had came down significantly to close at $6.32 after the 4th largest institution holder sold off entire portfolio on SoFi sending a very bearish signals to the market. SoFI had totally underperformed the market this year and continue to drift lower with more bearish news. While there might be other reasons why large institutions sell off, the lack of positive news on SoFi of late didn’t help. We’ll see whether this is falling knife or bargain hunting in the weeks and months to come.

I closed $SMH 20240621 267.5 PUT$  ,SMH: collect 1.1% premium when this cash secured put expired in the money. The strike was chosen at $267.5 and the ETF close at $264.89 therefore bought in the shares. Overall this was intended as I was heavily short on SMH stocks so buying shares is my form of covering my losing trades. My overall SMH short average was $200 so taking loss of $67.5 per share. Happy to collect some premium while closing these losing trades to offset some losses.

I closed $COST 20240621 850.0 CALL$  ,COST: this is 1st leg of the bear call spread with sell call at $850 and buy call at $855 with max loss of $500 per contract. Took profit for about 50% of maximum premium for these bear call expiring on 21st June. For most of past 2 weeks, COST had been hovering at and above the strike of $850 and as high as $874 therefore guaranteeing this became a losing trade. However in the final minutes of the closing, COST dipped below $850 therefore allowing this losing trade to turn profitable. Took partial profit on these options while letting others run.

I closed $AAPL DIAGONAL 240621/240726 PUT 212.5/PUT 210.0$  ,AAPL: the cash secured put I sold with strike $212.5 will expire in the money for about $5 so I’ve decided to roll this out by another month and chose a strike that is $2.5 lower at $210. While it’s still in the money, the premium collection is $2.33 which will almost cover the last closing price is $207.49. We’ll see what happened in 1 months time. And hope to collect premiums on full.

I closed $NVDA 20240621 130.0 CALL$  ,NVDA: collect 0.7% premium this NVDA sell call at strike $130 and contract duration for 11 days. For most days, NVDA went higher than $130 and as high as $140.76 therefore guaranteeing this sell call will be a losing one. I contemplated to roll it further out or to cut loss on 20th June when market open strongly only to start reversing mid session. Decided to hold on till closure which helped to turned this from a losing trade to collecting full premium when NVDA close at at $126.57. NVDA might have a reversal after topping at $140 on 20th June with a large bearish engulfing candle. 21st June closing is also lower then the previous day low potentially confirming a temporary profit ta

I opened $ANF 20240726 157.5 PUT$  ,ANF: collected 1.9% premium from this cash secured put. The strike was set at $157.5 at 0.2 delta. Duration was 35 days to allow the stocks to settle or come down. Happy to close the trade when it reach this level which is about 10% lower than last closing at $174.5. The stock had a bit of roll over in the past week after a succession of double top around $190. Will monitor coming weeks if the selling pressure is maintained.

I opened $BABA 20240719 82.5 CALL$  ,BABA: collect 0.6% premium on this covered call. Strike was set at $82.5 which is about 12% higher than current price. Premium is low as volatility is low of late. Since I have the share, any amount of premium is better to sit on the stocks and wait for paint to dry.

I opened $SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF(SPLG)$  ,SPDR: dollar cost averaging on weekly basis, sometimes I post and sometimes I don’t. I’ve sold off some before to cash out when margin for other trades were low. However, I’m still buying weekly on Wednesday near the close of market.

I opened $BABA 20240712 80.0 CALL$  ,BABA: collect 0.7% premium for this covered call. Lowered the strike to $80 to reflect the rotation lower since mid May. Happy to collect and just adopt the wait and see approach whole continue to sell covered calls until they got assigned.