Trade Updates – Page 33

Update – $TSLA: Supercharged Put Calendar

January 11, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

In late November (read here) we laid out a near term bearish case for shares of Tesla after what was a fairly newsy period for the company: Today the stock is down a bit on …

Update – $XLY: Rolling Short Strike of Put Calendar

January 11, 2016 by CC • Trade Updates

Less than a week ago we entered a slightly bearish trade in XLY (consumer discretionary etf) that looked to finance February downside puts by selling the same strike in January (read here). At the time …

Update $LEN: Closing Jan Put Butterfly for Gain

January 7, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

Prior to Lennar’s (LEN) fiscal Q4 results in mid December, we placed a defined risk bearish trade when the stock was near $49, from Dec 17th: Trade: LEN ($48.95) Bought Jan 48 / 44 / 40 Put …

Update – $GM: Closing Jan Put ButterFly

January 4, 2016 by CC • Trade Updates

On December 1st we got a glimpse at a nice November auto sales print that was inline with expectations. That got us looking at General Motors which had seen a really nice rally from both …

Trade Update $PYPL: Closing Call Calendar for a Gain

October 16, 2015 by Dan • Trade Updates

Back on Sept 11th we expressed a bullish leaning trade in PayPal (PYPL). The calendar financed the purchase of longer dated with the sale of ones expiring today (here). To refresh, here was the trade:

Trade Update – $XLP: Closing Nov Calls for a quick gain

October 9, 2015 by CC • Trade Updates

I guess it is safe to say that you could have thrown a dart to buy any stock (save AAPL) or sector (save Biotech) in the U.S. market this past week and made money. We …

Trade Update – Closing $QQQ Sept Put Spread for a Gain

August 21, 2015 by CC • Trade Updates

We’ve had a short position on in the QQQ for some time now. Initially it was a naked put and just yesterday we turned that into a put spread. Here’s how we got here. On July …

Trade Update $MSFT: Closing Put Calendar for a Gain

August 21, 2015 by CC • Trade Updates

Back on Aug 4th we legged into a bearish position in MSFT, financing the purchase of longer dated puts by selling shorter dated ones. To refresh, here was the trade & rationale:

Trade Update $XOM: Closing July Weekly Puts

July 31, 2015 by Dan • Trade Updates

Yesterday (read below) I made the case that options prices on a directional basis were just too low heading into this morning’s Q2 earnings print for XOM. I expressed that view in a one day …

Trade Update – Spreading $SLB puts

July 24, 2015 by CC • Trade Updates

Last week, into Schlumberger’s earnings (SLB), we placed a calendar put spread that looked to fade the earnings move but set up for further weakness afterwards if crude oil continued its decline. Here was the …

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