After I sell a Cycle / Recycle trade, once I get filled, I immediately put in a GTC closing order for between 2 and 10 cents, dependent mostly on liquidity. Well, yesterday I bought in my short AAPL calls at 0.03. Today, I needed to sell some to replace them. Noting that earnings is next week, I took advantage of the high volatility in the options in one of the 2 ways I could. I could either sell my typical, a-little-otm calls at a high premium, or sell a far-out strike at a higher-than-usual-for-that-strike vol. I opted for the later and sold the Jan31 242.5 calls at 0.50. That gives a lot of room for the stock to jump should earnings out perform, while still taking in premium. In AMZN, I was short the expiring 230 calls, which are ITM. ... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app |
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