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Rolled: NVDA February 18th 247.5 Short Put to 265... for a 7.90 credit. Comments: Rolled up early in the session, after which the market quickly decided to go the other way, which is fine, since a "perfect finish" would be between the short option strikes. In any event, total credits collected of 28.79 on a 22.5 inversion, so I could still make money on this on a finish between the short leg strikes at 242.5 and 265, but I'm basically just looking to mitigate loss at this point, since I plan to take it off -- fish or cut bait -- immediately before earnings.
NASDAQ:NVDA
by NaughtyPines
Rolling: IWM February 25th 197/198 Short Strangle to March 18th... 199 short straddle. Comments: As with my February 18th IWM tight short strangle, rolling out my February 25th to the March 18th 199 short straddle for a 4.24 credit. Total credits collected of 12.80 relative to the March 18th 199 short straddle price of 14.46, so also still slightly underwater. I'll continue naturally continue to do defensive adjustments as necessary to keep these setups from getting too directional.
AMEX:IWM
by NaughtyPines
4
Rolled (IRA): SPY March 18th 374 Short Put to June 345... for a 2.30 credit. Comments: As with the short puts I sold in IWM and QQQ in the sell-off, this one also is at greater than 50% max. Here, I rolled it out farther in time to start to fill out longer-dated expiries at intervals, again targeting the short put strike paying at least 1% of the strike price in credit, after which I'll roll the short put up at 50% max to the strike paying at least 1% of the strike price in credit, assuming the expiry is still longer than 45 days and that that strike is <16 delta. Naturally, June is quite long-dated (136 days), but the expectation is that it will reach 50% max at around half that period of time (assuming a bunch of things like IV, whether price moves significantly into the strike, etc.). In any event: Total credits collected of 3.75 (See Post Below) plus 2.30 here for a total of 6.05 relative to a price of 3.55 for the June 345, so I've realized gains of 2.50 ($250), give or take.
AMEX:SPYLong
by NaughtyPines
Rolled (IRA): QQQ March 18th 280 Short Put to April 14th 305... for a 2.40 credit. Comments: As with my IWM short put filled in the depths of the sell-off, there was far less extrinsic in the 280 than there was a few short days ago. Rolled out to April strike paying at least 1% of the strike price in credit, which is the 305, paying 3.19 or so. I collected 3.00 for the 280 (See Post Below) and 2.40 for the roll here, for a total of 5.40 relative to a current short put price for the April 305 of 3.20, so I've realized gains of 2.20 ($220) by rolling here. I could've naturally rolled up in the March expiry or waited for a weekly to roll out to (i.e., the March 25th, which doesn't exist yet), but opted for going longer dated, deeper out-of-the-money for the time being as I'm doing with my longer-dated SPY setup.
NASDAQ:QQQLong
by NaughtyPines
Rolling: KWEB January 18th 38.42C/40.42P to February 18th ... 35.42C/39.42P short strangle for a 1.04 credit. Comments: Another inverted that I'm rolling out a tad early and on which I've collected a total of 5.25 in credit. (See Post Below, to which the 1.04 credit received here should be added). Like ARKK, it also experienced a distribution, which ended changing the strike prices. In any event, it's a 4.00-wide inversion on which I've collected 5.25, so I can still make money on it, but will probably scratch it out if I get an opportunity and re-up with an unbroken setup if the implied volatility remains attractive.
AMEX:KWEB
by NaughtyPines
Rolled: ARKK February 18th 94.22 Short Call to 89.22... for a 1.74 credit. Comments: Yowsa. This continues to implode, so continuing to manage it defensively ... . As of my last roll, I'd collected 15.25 in credits. (See Post Below). With this roll, I've collected a total of 16.99 for what is now an inverted 15-wide: the 89.22C/104.22P with a downside break even of 104.22 - 16.99 or 87.23 relative to today's closing price of 85.58, so I've still got some work to do to get my cost basis at or below where the underlying is currently trading. Alternatively, I need the markets to do some of the work for me by giving me a bounce.
AMEX:ARKK
by NaughtyPines
Rolling: MU January 21st 69 Short Put to 86... for a 1.01 credit. Comments: With the 69 short put converging on worthless, rolled it up to a strike with a delta about half that of the short call. I originally collected 2.22 in credit for the 69/97.5 short strangle (See Post Below) and had a profit target of 50% of that or 1.11. Consequently, I'm revising the profit target to 1.11 plus what I received for the roll up of the 69 (1.01) (i.e., my new profit target to take off the now 86/97.5 is 2.12). The other way to look at it is that I've collected a total of 3.23 in credits -- 2.22 for the original setup plus 1.01 for the roll up, and I want to close it out for 1.11 less than that or 3.23 - 1.11 = 2.12.
NASDAQ:MU
by NaughtyPines
Rolling: UNG January 21st 17 Short Call to 14 Short Call... for a .42/contract credit. Comments: Rolling down the short call of my UNG straddle to reduce net delta directionality and improve my break evens. The resulting setup is a 3-wide inverted 14C/17P for which I've collected a total of 5.44 in credits -- 5.02 for the original short straddle (See Post Below) -- plus an additional .42 here. This also cuts net delta about in half, with the 17 short put clocking in at around 79 delta and the 14 short call around -39. The setup remains net delta long (40.81), leaving room for a potential bounce should that occur. A "perfect finish" for an inverted setup is basically the mid point between the inverted strikes -- in this case, 15.50. I will probably money/take/run if the opportunity presents itself, since there is seasonality with UNG, and I'd rather not roll this out for duration as I would with just about everything else since seasonality favors lower post-winter. My original price target was a 3.76 debit to close (25% of max profit), so I'm revising that to 3.76 plus .42 or 4.18.
AMEX:UNG
by NaughtyPines
2
Rolled: ARKK December 17th 104C/106P to January 21st 100C/105P... short strangle for a 4.16 credit. Comments: Late post. Rolled this on Friday with 14 days to go, improving the inversion by one strike on the put side, but widening it to sell the short call strike that was about half the delta of the short put. Total credits collected: 10.22. This started out as a high probability of profit, delta neutral December 17th 106/135 short strangle (See Post Below), after which ARKK proceeded to implode, resulting in defensive short call rolls from the 135 to the 114 strike (See Post Below), and then the 114 to the 104 strike (See Post Below). The end result is an inverted, 5-wide short strangle, with the short put above the short call and break evens on the down side of the short put strike minus total credits collected or 105.00 - 10.22 = 94.78 and on the call side of the short call strike (100.00) plus the total credits received of 10.22 or 110.22 and delta/theta of 29.71/13.08. The underlying finished Friday's session at 93.53 relative to a downside break even of 94.78, so I'm not in horrible shape relative to if I had just sat there and watched in horror as the short call converged on worthless and the short put value exploded. Ideally, I get a bounce back to the mid point of the inversion (to around 102.50), but I'll continue to look to manage sides to keep the setup from getting too directional.
AMEX:ARKK
by NaughtyPines