I opened $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$  ,AMD: Bought in some AMD as long term dollar cost averaging. With such great margins on AI chips, the rest of the key semiconductor players such as AMD will eventually get close enough to capture some spill over orders from NVDA. AMD is by no means cheap valuation stocks so at some point I’ll stop adding. Note for week 18th Jan: How true these above statement when 1 week ago I bought AMD at only $147 and it’s now $164 after market. DCA helps reduce the emotions on investing for sure.

I closed $SOFI 20240705 7.5 CALL$  ,SoFI: collected full premium on this covered call on SoFi with strike at $7.5 and over 36 days. The premium collected was 2.25%. SoFI is ranging for now and possible near term catalyst will be its upcoming earning on 30th July. Will observe how this will pan out.

I opened $SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$  ,SoFI: Bought in SoFi at $7 as part of getting assigned after the covered puts I sold went into the money and expired on 3rd May. SoFi closed at $6.96 at closing and I was ok with it. For weeks I’ve been selling SoFi at support $7 and this week it finally went as low as $6.61 before ending at $6.96 at closing. I’ve collected $0.36 premium from the options so $0.04 in the money meant I’m still profitable for $0.32 which translate to 4.55% premium collection over 25 days. Will turn to sell covered call on these newly acquired stocks. Earnings on 29th April were good, company was profitable for the 2nd Quarter in a row, however Mr. Market don’t like this company at its current state. Only time will tell I

I opened $DPZ 20240517 540.0 CALL$  ,DPZ: Collected $130 or 26% ROI per contract for this bear call on Dominoes Pizza over a period of 18 days. This is the 1st leg of the winning sold bear call option set at $540 which expired worthless as expected. DPZ had been consolidating and drift lower after the initial 5.6% pop up to as high as $539.99 on earning on 29th April and now gave up most of the gain and settled at $513.03 at closing on 17th May. There is a gap fill back to around $500 which may provide temporary support for now.

I opened $NKE 20240426 90.0 PUT$  ,NKE: sold cash secured put on NKE at strike price of $90 and 32 days till expiry. Premium collection is relatively low at 0.8% during this period. NKE has a 7% drop post earnings on 21st Mar. Current price is near recent support and about 25% off the recent peak made in Dec 2023.

I closed $SMCI 20240510 915.0 CALL$  ,SMCI: collected full premium of 0.35% for this naked call over a period of 4 days when it expired worthless. SMCI didn’t move much this whole week and stay within consolidating range. ATR decreased from 100 to around 60 now indicating slower volatility. However, NVDA earnings call on 22nd May will most likely influence how this counter and few other semiconductor counter will behave.

I closed $BABA 20240920 90.0 CALL$  ,BABA: collected full premium from this covered call that expired worthless on 20th Sept. BABA is testing new recent high this week but seems to be resisted around the $90 mark. Probably reasonable to consolidate before pushing higher. On other hand, allows me some of my coveted calls to expire worthless 😋

I closed $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  ,NVDA: sold 100 shares of NVDA at $121 at slight profit as the covered call expired in the money when market closes at $129.37. Earnings on 28th Aug and results might go both way, so happy to exit with small profit for now. Will decide how I trade this counter after earnings.

I closed $SOFI 20241004 8.5 CALL$  ,SoFI: collected full premium when these covered calls expired worthless on 4th Oct. SoFI had a bullish run on Fri and close at $8.36 within close range to my strike at $8.5. The stocks had been showing signs of bullish and potentially might break out. In the meanwhile, I’ll just keep selling both cash secured puts when it’s lower and covered calls when it’s high like now.

I closed $SMCI 20240712 690.0 PUT$  ,SMCI: take profit after 4 days and with about 1 week till expiry. This SMCI cash secured put as 2 weeks long and at 0.1 delta to factor for volatility. Happy to already achieved >80% of maximum profit in half the time needed and allow profit taking.

I closed $SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$  ,SOFI: sold these batch of stocks at $7 when the covered call expired in the money with the stock closing at $7.74 on the high. For few days this week, it might look like SoFi is turning bearish and pushing below $7 only to recover strongly in the final 3 days. Happy to encash and also collected the premiums.

I opened $AMD 20240426 157.5 PUT$  ,AMD: sold cash secured put at $157.5 and expiring in 32 days on 26th April. Premium collection is 1.3% over this period. AMD is 22% lower off its 8th Mar high and hitting temporary support levels. Sold the put at $157.5 which is nearer to the 100 days MA and hope that provide a level of support. NVDA announcement on their new high performance AI product probably had a correlation on AMD stock movement and capitalise on this temporary weakness to sell this put at support.

I closed $SMH 20240614 232.5 PUT$  ,SMH: collected 0.55% premium on this cash secured put on SMH after holding for 17 days. The strike was $232.5 which is a very comfortable level away from current price. SMH continue to move high throughout the past 2 weeks on heels of positive earnings and forecast by semiconductor counters. Happy to collect the option premiums, but actual stock are nursing a large paper loss.

I closed $BIDU 20240920 85.0 CALL$  ,BIDU: collected full premium from this covered call on Baidu what expired on 20th Sept but it’s in the money so the stocks were called away at $85. Not really sure what’s driving the counter to move up beyond overall market sentiments improved from US FED rates cuts. Happy to collect back my capital to prepare for other trades in coming weeks.

I closed $ANF 20240328 145.0 CALL$  ,ANF: this is the 2nd leg of the bear call spread that expires worthless. Collected full premium of 0.6% for this bear call spread of $140/145 over a period or 9 days. The premium is limited due to ‘insurance’ bought with the buy call at $145 as I don’t intend to further short the stocks and I already own ANF shorts currently. during this 1.5 weeks, ANF moved nicely in a range, went as high as $139.11 before reversing to $125.33 now. Will continue to look for short opportunities as I think ANF is overpriced.

I closed $Royal Caribbean Cruises(RCL)$  ,RCL: bought in 100 shares of RCL as the cash secured put expired in the money on the final day. Strike was $145 which was my holding average so earned the premium while buying back shares the same as I short them so it’s profitable trade.

I closed $SOFI 20240920 8.5 CALL$  ,SoFI: collected full premium from this covered call that expired worthless on 20th Sept. These batch was the ones I sold the calls at higher strike of $8.5 else it would be easily called away as my past 3 weeks of calls at around $7. Glad I keep it and can continue to sell new covered call next week at either higher strike or for more premium with same strike.

I opened $Celsius Holdings, Inc.(CELH)$  ,CELH: bought in some additional shares to average in my positions. I believe the counter is oversold and possibly rebound at the right timing. Also sold covered call on my positions to collect extra premiums.

I closed $Alibaba(BABA)$  ,BABA: sold this batch off at breakeven at $90 after the covered call goes deep in the money. Forsaken the upside on BABA by up to $24/share based on closing at $114. Have collected premium for a while now so I’m at peace for letting this goes and some other covered call too. Chinese stocks were boosted these past weeks from Chinese stimulus so have to observe how much it might temporary corrects.

Stock portfolio losses. Down a fair bit this past few days with the Hiddenburg shorts on SMCI and delay in filing reports.