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Rolled (IRA): IWM October 1st 161 to the November 18th 163... short put for a 1.10 credit. Comments (Late Post): Rolled this out at >50% max to the strike in November paying around 1% of the strike price in credit. I might usually just take profit and close this out, but still need small cap long delta for a bit here while I manage my IWM short delta hedge. Total credits collected of 1.62 (See Post Below) plus the 1.10 here for a total of 2.72 relative to a price for the November 18th 163 of 1.71, so I've realized gains of 1.01 ($101) to date.
AMEX:IWMLong
by NaughtyPines
Closed (IRA): SPY October 21st 356 Short Put... for a 1.66 debit. Comments: Opened this for 3.65 as part of a four-leg ladder. (See Post Below). Closing just the October rung of that here at >50% max. 1.99/$199 profit. This also has the added effect of reducing my long delta a bit, so in that sense it's a subtractive delta adjustment trade at the same time. If you're big on keeping your portfolio net delta "happy," you want to first look at doing adjustments subtractively (i.e., taking off offending delta), only doing additive adjustments (i.e., putting on a new setup to delta balance) if subtractive adjustments haven't quite done the trick.
AMEX:SPY
by NaughtyPines
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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.
CME_MINI:ES1!Long
by NaughtyPines