Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Closing Trade - 21 APR KATE 20/26 Strangle

It was reported that Kate Spade was in talks to be bought out by Coach, so I scratched the trade.

Closing Trade [Opening Trade]
Bought: ten 21 APR KATE 20/26 Strangles @$0.53

Total Debit: $530.00
Total Commissions/Fees: $2.86
Balance: $36,119.10
Trade P/L: $4.22
YTD Realized P/L: $2,398.99


Tuesday, March 28, 2017

New Opening Trade - 21 APR NVDA 97.5/118 Strangle [Closed]

Opening Trade
Sold: five 21 APR NVDA 97.5/118 Strangles @$1.37

Total Credit: $685.00
Total Commissions/Fees: $11.47
Balance: $36,651.96


Saturday, March 25, 2017

New Opening Trade - 21 APR KATE 20/26 Strangle [Closed]

Opening Trade
Sold: ten 21 APR KATE 20/26 Strangles @$0.56

Total Credit: $560.00
Total Commissions/Fees: $22.92
Balance: $35,978.43

New Opening Trade - 21 APR HON 125 Straddle [Closed]

Opening Trade
Sold: two 21 APR HON 125 Straddles @$4.91

Total Credit: $982.00
Total Commissions/Fees: $4.60
Balance: $35,444.92

Closing Trade - 19 MAY HON 125 Straddle

Closing Trade [Opening Trade]
Bought: two 19 MAY HON 125 Straddles @$7.03

Total Debit: $1,406.00
Total Commissions/Fees: $0.58
Balance: $34,467.52
Trade P/L: -$17.19
YTD Realized P/L: $2,394.77

New Opening Trade - 19 MAY HON 125 Straddle [Closed]

Accidentally sold the May expiration instead of April, so immediately scratched the trade because Honeywell's earnings will be announced before May 19th and I wanted to avoid that binary event (closing trade is in a separate post).

Opening Trade
Sold: two 19 MAY HON 125 Straddles @$6.97

Total Credit: $1,394.00
Total Commissions/Fees: $4.61
Balance: $35,874.10

Friday, March 24, 2017

Slight Change to Trade Post Layouts

For the time being I'll be excluding pics from the trade recaps because the layout on my new brokerage includes sensitive account information that I can't hide.  Once they build an option to adjust the layout I'll include them again.

Friday, March 10, 2017

Closing Trade - 17 MAR FRED 17.5 Straddle

FRED dropped 17% since last week so I decided to cut my losses and exit the trade in order to complete the move to my new brokerage.  If I wasn't migrating to another brokerage I would have gone inverted and rolled the trade to the next expiration to give it time to work out.

Closing Trade [Opening Trade]
Bought: ten 17 MAR FRED 17.5 Straddles @$3.13

Total Debit: $3,130.00
Total Commissions/Fees: $22.45
Balance: $34,481.10
Trade P/L: -$298.02
YTD Realized P/L: $2,411.96