Stock Symbol: BG Option Strategy: bull put spread Date Entered: Oct 12th Price at Trade Open: $60.82 Current Gain / Loss: +22.73% Max Profit: $340 Max Return: 51.52% Max Risk: $660 Profit Range: $58.30 + [Read More …]
Trade Adjustment – calendar spread
November 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock / Symbol: [private_monthly]Baidu / BIDU[/private_monthly] Price at trade entry: $113.09 Price at trade adjustment: $114.80 Option Strategy: calendar call spread Max Risk: $520 Max Reward: $318 (at Nov expiration) Max Called Return: 61% Uncalled [Read More …]
New Trade – call back spread
November 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
New Trade – diagonal call spread
November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock / Symbol: [private_monthly]Best Buy / BBY[/private_monthly] Price at trade opening: $45.18 Option Strategy: diagonal call spread Max Risk: $778 Max Reward: $687 or 88% by December expiration Profit Range: $44.57 + Max Reward Price: [Read More …]
New Trade – combo (short put / long call)
November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock / Symbol: [private_monthly]General Electric / GE[/private_monthly] Price at trade opening: $16.58 Option Strategy: combo (short put / long call) Max Risk: $1,575 Max Reward: unlimited Profit Range: $16.76+ Reasoning:Expect that [private_monthly]GE[/private_monthly] will move up [Read More …]
Closing Trade – diagonal call spread
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock Symbol: DIS Option Strategy: diagonal call spread Price at Trade entry: $33.23 Amt Risked: $1,164 Current Value: 1,250 Return: 7.22% Reasoning: [private_monthly]Disney – DIS[/private_monthly] has moved up faster than we expected. We’ll close this [Read More …]
Trade Adjustment – calendar call spread
November 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock / Symbol: [private_monthly]Las Vegas Sands / LVS[/private_monthly] Price at time of trade entry: $41 Option Strategy: calendar call spread Reasoning: Our premise that [private_monthly]LVS[/private_monthly] would move higher was right but we were wrong on [Read More …]
New Trade – diagonal call spread
November 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock / Symbol: [private_monthly]Verifone / PAY[/private_monthly] Price at trade opening: $34.77 Option Strategy: diagonal call spread Max Risk: $465 Max Reward: $147 (at Nov expiration) Profit Range: $34.74 – 42.88 (at Nov expiration) Max Profit [Read More …]
Report Card – as of October 29th, 2010
November 2, 2010 By 1 Comment
Since our official launch on August 9th, our portfolio is up 15.36%. Compare this to the S&P, which is up just 5.37% in the same time. Start Date: 08/09/10 End Date: 10/29/10 SPX DOW Opening [Read More …]
Closing Trade – ADBE call back spread
October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Stock Symbol: ADBE Original Option Strategy: Call Back Spread Max Risk (Adjusted): $15 Gain on remaining long call: 30% Overall Gain on Trade: 83% Reasoning: On Oct 12, we closed out the 4 short calls [Read More …]
