Closing (Margin): /ES October 21st 2550 Short Put... for a .95 debit.
Comments: Filled this for a 3.05 credit. (See Post Below). Out here for (3.05 - .95)/2 = 1.05/$105 profit. Taking off a little risk in advance of FOMC/Triple Witching. I'll naturally re-up if we get weakness plus an uptick in implied volatility.
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Closing (Margin): /ES September 30th 3080 Short Put... for a 1.35 debit.
Comments: Filled this for 3.10 (See Post Below). Closing it out here for a little bit more than 50% max. (3.10 - 1.35)/2 = .875 ($87.50) profit. Reducing risk with FOMC in 13 days (where I'll look to add on weakness/uptick in implied volatility).
Opening (Margin): /ES November 18th 2400 Short Put... for a 3.10 credit (arrow indicated).
Comments: Would prefer to do this on weakness plus an uptick in implied volatility, but I'm not getting any younger here. 1.55 max on buying power effect of 13.90, targeting the <75% of current price strike paying around 3.00/1.50 (due to 50x multiplier); 11.2% ROC at max as a function of buying power effect; 5.6% ROC at 50% max.
At its core, a bet that that we don't see 2400 by opex.
I've gone ahead and shown all my open /ES positions here, since part of the calculus in making the decision to take a rung off at less than max is its risk relative to other strikes I have on. For example, the nearest to at-the-money strike is currently the September 30th 3210, so I've got my eye on potentially taking that rung of before everything else since it's closer to at-the-money.
Opening (Margin): /ES November 18th 2300 Short Put... for a 3.30 credit.
Comments: Laddering out a bit here in longer duration on weakness, targeting the <75% of current price strike paying around 3.00. 1.65 max on buying power effect of 14.15; 11.7% ROC at max, 52.7% annualized; 5.9% ROC at 50% max, 26.4% annualized.
Opening (Margin): /ES October 21st 2850 Short Put... for a 3.05 credit.
Comments: Targeting the <75% of current price strike paying around 3.00 in credit. 1.525 ($152.50) max on buying power effect of 14.37; 10.6% ROC at max as a function of buying power effect; 5.3% at 50% max. A little longer-dated than I'd like to go, and the 30-day IV isn't as stellar as I'd like, but you can't have your pudding if you don't eat your meat.
Opening (Margin): /ES September 30th 3080 Short Put... for a 3.10 credit.
Comments: Already have a September 30th on at the 3210, but adding a rung here on this weakness, targeting the <75% of current price strike paying around 3.00. 1.55 max on buying power effect of 16.76, 9.2% ROC as a function of buying power effect; 4.6% at 50% max.
Opened (IRA): October 21st 369 Short Put... for a 3.75 credit.
Comments: (Late Post). Back from a long(ish) weekend, I managed to sneak this in around the close with my phone app. Part of a longer-dated strategy targeting the <16 delta strike paying around 1% of the strike price in credit to emulate dollar cost averaging into the broad market. I now have October 369's, November 340's, December 325's, January 315's, and March 280's in my SPY "ladder."
Opening (IRA): QQQ October 21st 278 Short Put... for a 2.91 credit.
Comments: My weekly broad market short put, targeting the shortest duration <16 delta strike paying around 1% of the strike price in credit in the exchange-traded fund with the highest 30-day IV (which has been the Q's for a bunch of weeks running here).
Opened (IRA): IWM October 21st 170 Short Put... for a 1.78 credit.
Comments: Targeting the <16 strike in the shortest duration paying around 1% of the strike price in credit. This is more of "I need small cap long delta" than "this is a really great place to put on small cap long delta" trade, so probably not the best entry point to do this, although we're getting a little bit of weakness here today.
Opening (Margin): /ES September 30th 3210 Short Put... for a 3.10 credit.
Comments: Targeting the strike that is ~75% of current price and is paying around 3.00 in credit. Will look to add should we get further weakness, higher IV (which isn't so great here at 20.3%).
1.55 max (due to the 50 x multiplier in /ES) on buying power effect of 16.34; 9.5% ROC as a function of buying power at max; 4.7% at 50% max.
Opening (Margin): IWM September 30th 178 Short Put... for a 1.80 credit.
Comments: Not a great place or a great IV environment to be doing this, but looking to offset some of my IWM short delta. Previously, I did a covered call, but I don't need that much long delta here at the moment, so am doing a lower delta out-of-the-money short put and will add at intervals if necessary. Delta/theta 15.18/5.