theOptionWiz position summary for the period covering Aug 8 – Sep 3, 2010: closed trades Stock Symbol Option Strategy entry date exit date Gain / loss (pre-commission) GOOG put spread 08/10/10 08/20/10 100.64% SPY iron [Read More …]
Archives for 2010
Closing Trade – JNJ bull put spread
September 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock Symbol: JNJ Price at time of Trade: $57.60 Current Price: $58.64 Option Strategy: bull put spread – generates a credit trade Risk: low Reward: limited Reasoning: When the market was up big this morning, [Read More …]
Closing Trade – AAPL call spread
September 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
Stock Symbol: APPL Option Strategy: Call Spread Reasoning: Looking like AAPL doesn’t want to move much higher from here and is in risk of pulling back next week. If we close our position here, we [Read More …]
New Trade-Call Spread
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock Symbol: [private_monthly]GT[/private_monthly] Price at time of Trade: $10.07 Target Price: $11 Option Strategy: Call Spread Reasoning [private_monthly]Goodyear Tire & Rubber CoT[/private_monthly] has lost 2/3 of it’s market cap this year. It is best of [Read More …]
Trade Update
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock Symbol: [private_monthly]JDSU[/private_monthly] Entry date: 8/18/10 Price at time of Trade: $10.53 Target Price: $13 Option Strategy: Call Spread Trade Update: [private_monthly] STC 5 Dec 13 call options for approximately $0.18 Net Debit = Approximately [Read More …]
New Trade – bull put spread
August 29, 2010 By 2 Comments
Stock Symbol: [private_monthly]JNJ[/private_monthly] Price at time of Trade: $57.60 Target Price: $60 by Sep expiration Option Strategy: bull put spread – generates a credit trade Risk: low Reward: limited Reasoning:Expect that [private_monthly]JNJ [/private_monthly] will move [Read More …]
New Trade – combo (short put / long call)
August 29, 2010 By 3 Comments
Stock Symbol: [private_monthly]MOT[/private_monthly] Price at time of Trade: $7.68 Target Price: $9.00 by Oct expiration Option Strategy: combo (short put / long call) Risk: low / medium Reward: unlimited Reasoning:Expect that [private_monthly]MOT [/private_monthly] will move [Read More …]
Closed Trade
August 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock Symbol: SPY Trade initiated: Aug 23rd Price at time of trade: $107.61 Target price: 102 to 111 range Price at trade close: $106.86 Price change: 0.70% Our return: +2.62% Strategy: Iron Condor using weekly [Read More …]
Trade Update
August 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For our combo (short put / long call) trade on [private_monthly]Corning (GLW)[/private_monthly] we’re going to add a calendar spread to help bring our trade to profitability more quickly. Original Strategy: Combo (short put / long [Read More …]
New Trade – Iron Condor
August 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock Symbol: [private_monthly]SPY[/private_monthly] Price at time of Trade: [private_monthly]$107.61[/private_monthly] Target Price: [private_monthly]102 to 111[/private_monthly] Strategy: Iron Condor using weekly options which expire on 8/27/10 Risk: lower Reward: limited Reasoning:Expect that [private_monthly]the S&P 500[/private_monthly] is currently [Read More …]
