Shortput
Rolling (IRA): SPY July 15th 400 Short Put to August 26th 391... for a 1.04 credit.
Comments: With only 4 days to go, rolling this down and out instead of taking assignment of shares at the 400 strike and selling call against. I'll keep rolling down and out as long as that remains somewhat productive.
Total credits collected of 11.37 (See Post Below) plus the 1.04 here for a total of 12.41.
Opened (IRA): SPY August 26th 350 Short Put... for a 3.65 credit.
Comments: (Late Post). I did a ton of stuff on Friday, and (I think) this was the last one. SPY 30-day IV has dropped sub-25%, so it may shortly not be worth it to sell premium in it in <45 DTE duration where I want to pitch my tent (16 delta or less).
QQQ still has the highest 30-day (30.6%), followed by IWM (29.3%), followed by SPY (24.0%), so I'll continue to hammer away at the Q's and secondarily IWM while they still have juice in them.
Rolled (IRA): IWM July 22nd 169 Short Put to August 26th 155... for a .25 credit.
Comments: (Late Post). Didn't collect much credit here, but this is the highest strike rung of my short put ladder and would prefer rolling it out of harm's way/to a lower cost basis strike since the market's given me the opportunity here. Total credits collected of 4.79 (See Post Below) plus the .25 here for a total of 5.04.
Opened (IRA): QQQ August 19th 250 Short Put... for a 2.56 credit.
Comments: Back in the saddle again after the long weekend ... . Targeting the <16 delta strike paying around 1% of the strike price in credit in the expiry nearest 45 days in the broad market exchange-traded fund with the highest 30-day to emulate dollar cost averaging into the broad market.
Closed: /ES July 29th 2850 Short Put... for a 1.45 debit.
Comments: In for a 3.20 credit (See Post Below). Out for a 1.45 debit. (3.20 - 1.45)/2 = .875 ($87.50) profit. Still have July 29th 2700's, July 29th 2500's, August 5th 2700's, and August 19th 2100's on, so just taking off a smidge of risk here and/or freeing up buying power.
Opening (IRA): SMH August 19th 150 Short Put... for a 1.54 credit.
Comments: Adding another unit of semiconductors here (IVR/IV 72/47) in weakness/higher IV, targeting the <16 delta strike paying around 1% of the strike price in credit in the August monthly (the weeklies aren't all that liquid). Still have the August 19th 175's on.