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Rolled (Margin): NVDA October 21st 210 Short Call to 160for a 3.88 credit. Comments: Rolled to a short straddle today. Total credits collected of 11.56 with a cost basis of 148.44/share if assigned on the 160 short put. It's not great relative to where it's trading now, but I'm getting whipped on both the call and the put side, so I guess the benefit of a covered call (if it goes that way) is that I'll eliminate call side risk. I'm indicating it's "long" here, since the delta metric is 49 or so, but don't have a particular opinion on where NVDA goes from here.
NASDAQ:NVDALong
by NaughtyPines
Opening (Margin): QQQ September 16th 292/338 Short Strangle... for a 2.67 credit. Comments: Selling longer duration delta strikes in shorter duration here ... . I went out to the October monthly, looked at what the 25 delta strikes would be there and am selling those same strikes in shorter duration. 2.67 credit on buying power effect of 40.42; 6.6% ROC as a function of buying power effect, 17.4% annualized; 3.3% at 50% max, 8.7% annualized. Delta/theta currently 4.16/18.84.
NASDAQ:QQQ
by NaughtyPines
Rolled (Margin): XOP September 16th 135/145 Short Strangle... to the September 16th 142/159 short strangle for a 4.94 debit. Comments: Up to this point, I had collected a total of 9.35 in credits. Instead of rolling out a month, I opted to pay a debit to recenter risk here intraexpiry (basically to an expected move setup) in order to give it a chance to work out this cycle (while temporarily reducing assignment risk, since I moved the short call from in-the-money to out-of-the-money). Total credits collected now 9.35 minus 4.94 or 4.41 relative to a current value for the 142/159 of 7.15 at the mid price . -1.03/25.55 delta/theta.
AMEX:XOP
by NaughtyPines
Rolling (Margin): BITO Sept 12C/17P to Oct 11C/16P... for a .63 credit. Comments: Rolling out with 28 days to go, but adjusting strikes slightly to delta neutral, since there wasn't a ton of difference in credit between rolling out "as is" versus delta balancing. Total credits collected of 5.01 on a 5 wide inverted. The setup is currently marking at 6.46 relative to my cost basis of 5.01, so it's underwater by 1.45 ($145). Moreover, the max the setup can make is 5.01 minus the width of the inversion (5.00) (i.e., $1), so I'm just looking to cut that loss a smidge before calling it a day if I can, with price ideally staying between the short option strikes throughout the life of the setup. Resulting delta/theta of -8.42/2.18.
AMEX:BITO
by NaughtyPines
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