Today’s option expiration finished somewhat differently than I thought it was going to as of a week ago. Here’s the breakdown of how it went down:
VXX, two August 24 Puts – I’ll be assigned 200 shares of VXX on Monday morning. Instead of trying to roll Read More
I haven’t made a trade yet in August. That’ll change this week with options expiration upon us as I adjust my option holdings. It’s not necessarily because I’ve been too busy to get to it, but more so that I couldn’t find anything I liked that I Read More
July was a very good month for me, as I’m sure it was for all investors who were long stocks. By the end of July my combined accounts balance was 2,122.50. I have my equity based assets with Interactive Brokers (0,777.73) and my debt based positions with TD Ameritrade Read More
I pulled my current portfolio this morning to show what I have right now going into Friday’s option expiration. I look good on my four July expiration naked puts and expect them to all stay out of the money for the next three days. My July covered calls are out of the Read More
I finished June with a combined balance of 2,037.08 (,788.28 in IB and ,218.80 in AMTD). As always, Quicken is showing a slightly different total balance of 2.188.35. I ended May with a balance of 5,869.10 which means I was down ,832.02 on paper in June. Read More
What started just a couple of weeks ago as an easy ride into expiration turned around on me very quickly, especially in the last few days before today’s relief. I’m still not sure what to think with where the markets are heading over the next week/month and so I started Read More
I pulled the prices for all of my short puts and their underlying stocks during the last 10 minutes of the trading day today and entered them in the latest version of my tracking sheet I’m using. This week has been rough on me, but I’m down less than the indexes so Read More
April was almost a non-event for my account. After missing the first two weeks due to my surgery/recovery I fell behind and quickly lost ground to the major indices as they rallied and I did nothing. By selling options I have somewhat of a low beta account anyway, meaning when Read More
March was a great month for me, but based on how well all equity sectors did that didn’t take a lot of brainwork from me so I’ll keep my ego in check. I ended the month with a combined balance of 8,043.97 (,935.22 with IB and ,108.75 with AMTD). This gives Read More
I charted the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, $INDU, $DJI) after the index closed for the month on 7/30/10 at 10,465.94. // The ...
July was a very good month for me, as I’m sure it was for all investors who were long stocks. ...
I charted the S&P 500 ($SPX) after the markets closed on Friday, 8/6/10, when it finished the week at 1,121.64. // A ...
I charted the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA, $INDU, $DJI) after the index closed on Friday, August 13, 2010, at ...
I haven’t made a trade yet in August. That’ll change this week with options expiration upon us as I adjust my ...
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