I opened $NVDA 20241213 129.0 PUT$ ,NVDA: collect 1.55% premium on this cash Secured put with strike at $129 which is 12% lower than current market rate. Contract expires in 22 days on 13th Dec. Took the opportunity to sell this fresh put when market opens and NVDA were temporarily under selling pressure. Happy to intuition were right as it floats back up over the remaining trading hours.
I closed $BABA 20241122 90.0 PUT$ ,BABA: collected premium in full about 1 day ahead of time as the stock got assigned at $90 by the counter party. So no need to wait until it expires. Happy to collect the premium and won't mind the assignment. Overall a losing trade as the premium collected didn't cover the current paper loss on BABA which closes at $85.58.
I opened $Alibaba(BABA)$ ,BABA: bought in BABA at $90 when it got assigned in the pre market as part of the cash secured put that is in the money. With little to no time value left, the counter party had opted to trigger the assignment. Will turn this to selling calls as part of wheel strategy.
I opened $SOFI 20241213 16.0 CALL$ ,SoFI: collect 2.9% premium on these covered calls with strike at $16 which is 6% higher than market rate. Contract expires in 22 days on 13th Dec. SoFI continue to be bullish and I won't be surprise these stocks got called away. Won't mind as it's above my holding cost.
I opened $MicroStrategy(MSTR)$ ,MSTR: short MSTR in the pre market as it continue its march breaking $500 without much resistance overnight. The bullish news of MSTR raising new bonds worth $2.6 billion to continue buying Bitcoin bouyed the market. This then soured after market opens when Citron Research revealed a short position on MSTR and currently MSTR is 2-3% lower reacting to the news. Think MSTR will ride this over and continue to be bullish. Just that short term might create an overhang amidst all the only bullish news surrounding MSTR for past few weeks.
I opened $MSTR 20241129 600.0 CALL$ ,MSTR: collect 3% premium from this naked call with strike at $600 which is about 46% higher than current price. Contract also expires in 8 days on 29th Nov. given the short nature of my trades, and with Citron Research short dampening the mood. Short duration trade to capitalise on the volatility to collect premium.
I opened $MicroStrategy(MSTR)$ ,MSTR: short MSTR in the pre market as it continue its march breaking $500 without much resistance overnight. The bullish news of MSTR raising new bonds worth $2.6 billion to continue buying Bitcoin bouyed the market. This then soured after market opens when Citron Research revealed a short position on MSTR and currently MSTR is 2-3% lower reacting to the news. Think MSTR will ride this over and continue to be bullish. Just that short term might create an overhang amidst all the only bullish news surrounding MSTR for past few weeks.
I opened $GFS 20250117 50.0 CALL$ ,GFS: collect 1% premium on these covered calls with strike at $50 which is 20% higher than current market price. Contract expires in 58 days on 17th Jan. My stock holding is under water so better to collect some premium while waiting.
I opened $iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF(IJR)$ ,I opened $iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF(IJR)$ ,Take a look at the latest order I posted! IJR: weekly IJR dollar cost averaging. These were setup to buy in a fixed dollar amount every Wed and happy to setup and forget as long as have enough cash to make the payment.
I opened $MicroStrategy(MSTR)$ ,MSTR: short some additional MSTR stock as it march towards $500 and BTC nearing $100k. Improve short average and at the same time understand the risk is really high on this highly bullish crypto sentiments. Look for some profit taking along the way.
I opened $MSTR 20241122 600.0 CALL$ ,MSTR: collect 1.15% premium on this naked call on MSTR with strike at $600 which is about 20% higher than peak of $500. Looking at $500 as temporary resistance and not likeLy to reach $600 before end of the week 22nd Nov. if it ever breach $600 by Fri, happy to take this as new short positions to improve my short average. All shorts are high risk, and shorts on highly volatile crypto linked stocks adds another layer of risk too.
I opened $VXX 20241213 55.0 CALL$ ,VXX: collect 4.65% premium from this covered call with strike at $55 which is 14% higher than current strike. contract expires in 23 days on 13th Dec. Took the opportunity to sell new covered call when the volatility spiked at the beginning of session before it receded. Attractive premium over risk. With this, all my underlying stocks were committed to covered Calls so will have to wait til I close of of them or when older ones expired by end of the week. Look got continue intermittent volatility spike as the market can get jittery at market near all time highs.
I opened $SMCI 20241129 40.0 CALL$ ,SMCI: clllect 1.2% premium on these covered calls with strike at $40 which is 40% higher than current market price. Contract expires in 10 days on 29th Nov. SMCI volatility spiked on news of new report filing extension and hiring of new audit firm. Price is up 30% by end of market day. Took opportunity to cash in on some juicy premium. Not all rosy and the underlying stock is deep in the red for the major price drop since Aug.
I opened $SMCI 20250117 65.0 CALL$ ,SMCI: collect 0.9% premium for the far out of the money covered call at $65 strike which is 230% higher than current market price. Spreading my covered calls across multiple time frames and strike positions to distribute the risk of assignment versus premium collection. These sets of contracts expires in 59 days on 17th Jan, and they are above my holding average so post no risk beyond opportunity cost. Sold close to the peak of Volatility spike on Tues so already 24% in the money by the end of market close.
I opened $VXX 20241220 60.0 CALL$ ,VXX: collect 2.5% on this covered call with strike at $65. Contract will expire in 60 days on 17th Jan. Took opportunity on the spike in volatility after market opens and news of Ukraine and Russia wars escalation to sell fresh covered call. By the end of market session, the volatility had retrace back and already allowing for 18% paper profit.
I opened $VXX 20241206 55.0 CALL$ ,VXX: collect 2.3% on this covered call with strike at $55. contract will expire in 17 days on 6th Dec and this allow better turn over of capital and premium extraction. Took opportunity on the spike in volatility after market opens and news of Ukraine and Russia wars escalation to sell fresh covered call. By the end of market session, the volatility had retrace back and already allowing for 25% paper profit.
I opened $TSLA VERTICAL 241122 CALL 360.0/CALL 365.0$ ,TSLA: sold bear call on TSLA at near term resistant level of $360 and buy back at $365, risking maximum $500 per contract on this trade. Premium collection is $135 so is about 27% reward to risk ratio. Expiry by this Fri 22nd Nov so we'll know outcome by then. Still think TSLA is overbought despite the sell off last week and strongly rebounded on Monday 18th Nov. Short term trade that I'm ok to risk.
I closed $SOFI 20241115 9.0 PUT$ ,SoFI: collected premium in full for these cash secured put as it expired on 15th Nov. SoFI continued it's bullish run therefore the sell put side had been profitable. I'm still long term bullish on SoFi so will look to sell new ones. Might wait till price consolidates as well.
I closed $ANF 20241115 130.0 PUT$ ,ANF: collected premium in full for this cash secured put as it expired on 15th Nov. ANF went as low as $131 on 1st Nov but now recovered to $144. The strike at $130 were at good support and it proved its level when the price action rebounded over that.
I closed $MSFT 20241115 390.0 PUT$ ,MSFT: collected premium in full for this cash secured put as it expired on 15th Nov. The strike of $390 were set at the low on the sell off after earnings on 30th Oct. Price had since recovered so these were good setups. Look set to replicate new trade in coming week.