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Rolling (IRA): SPY March 18th 412 Short Put to April 29th 375 ... for a 1.40 credit. Comments: This is a smidge shy of 50% max, but has only 7 days to go. Rolling it down and out to the April 29th short put paying at least 1% of the strike price in credit. Total credits collected of 19.07 (See Post Below) plus 1.40 or 20.47 relative to the 375's current price of 3.98, so I've realized gains of 16.49 ($1649) so far. Still sticking with the weeklies here so long as the 45 DTE <16 delta strike continues to pay >1% of the strike price in credit.
AMEX:SPYLong
by NaughtyPines
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Rolling: QQQ May 20th 385 Short Call to May 20th 376... for a 1.38 credit. Comments: A small delta adjustment here to realize a gain on the call side, recenter my risk, and get a credit for doing it. Both sides are now at the 18 delta (ish) strikes, with net delta basically flat. Total credits collected of 10.88 with 77 days to go. I generally wait for side approaching worthless/side test to do an adjustment, but you can also do adjustments with greater frequency, depending on how "delta anal" you are. Alternatively, you can monitor your theta/delta ratio in the position and look to make adjustments at certain theta/delta ratio intervals (e.g., 2:1, 1:1, etc.). Here, the position wasn't all that skewed out from that standpoint and is currently at 16.38/1.31, so I could've probably also just left it alone, since a theta/delta ratio of >1 implies that theta decay will be such as to outpace any change in the delta of the position (at least when looked at from that snapshot of the position in time).
NASDAQ:QQQ
by NaughtyPines