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ISRG - MyMI Option PlaysSaw some worse-than-expected Quarterly Results and we were already looking at some Potential PUTs on the stock.
We're looking at a potential $225 Price Target which we actually saw those price levels into today's premarket. We expect to see even lower price levels than $219 on a Double Oversold Bounce to the downside on the lower timeframes just due to the momentum to the downside. Could see some potential 100% gains intraday even, so will buy a few and then sell one to take the initial investment back and look at holding shares on the turnaround at the bottom.
Will add lower time frame charts in comments on the trade!
Thanks for tuning in!
MyMI Wallet
Assignment (Margin): NVDA 160 Short PutComments:
Total credits collected/realized gain of 11.56 ($1156), with the difference between 160 and current price (125.66) an unrealized loss.
Will look to sell call against on Monday with a starting cost basis of 160.00/share, as well as potentially covered strangle (short put + stock + short call). Unlike my QQQ 300 covered call (See Post Below), this one is on margin, where being in stock becomes a buying power hog relative to being in an options contract, so the motivation may look to exit at the earliest possible juncture for a scratch, rather than hang out in it endlessly. That being said, both NVDA and AMD are kind of "premium seller faves," since 30-day IV is decent a lot of the time.
I'll start out selling 160 calls against and then proceed to roll those mechanically at monthly opex so long as my cost basis remains above current price.
Closing (Margin): /MCL March 16th 58/108 Short Strangle... for a .48 debit.
Comments: Collected a total of .69 in credits for this pair of legs. Closing out here for a small (.21/$21) winner to free up buying power in the event I have to do an additive adjustment later. Net position leans a smidge short delta, so don't need to do an adjustment here at the moment.
Closing (Margin): /MCL February 15th 67 Short Put... for a .27 debit.
Comments: Since I've exited the position that this leg was providing a little long delta assist to, closing it out here for a small winner. Filled for a .54 credit; out here for a .27 debit. .27 ($27) profit. I'm now all out in the March cycle which, for the moment, is net delta flat to slightly short.
DFS Discover Financial Services Options Ahead of EarningsLooking at the DFS Discover Financial Services options chain ahead of earnings , I would buy the $104 strike price Puts with
2023-1-20 expiration date for about
$1.60 premium.
If the options turn out to be profitable Before the earnings release, i would sell at least 50%.
Looking forward to read your opinion about it.
Opening (Margin): /MCL February 15th 77 Short Put... for a 2.13 credit.
Comments: An additive delta adjustment trade, which is a functional roll-up of what was my 74.5 short put. At this point, I'm fine with taking a loss on this very narrow short strangle, so long as I'm net up for the cycle on my /MCL trades, but would naturally prefer to scratch it out. Still keeping on the 67 short put for the moment, as it's providing a smidge of long delta.
Opening (Margin): /MES February 28th 3670/4200 Short Strangle... for a 40.50 credit.
Comments: An additive delta adjustment trade, selling the +12 delta put and the -19 delta call to pick up net -7 delta. Will mostly look to mix and match profitable put with profitable call to peel off units from here to 21 DTE.
TSLA strangle 195c / 85pTrade thesis
- theta collection
- current IV rank and percentile are at historical highs aggregating past 252 trading days
IV rank: 95%
IV %: 99%
- near delta neutral options strangle position of 195c/85p on Feb 17 monthly expiry
- 85p short leg represent a -32% price buffer to the downside
- 195c forms a nearly delta neutral trade on call side (+.02 delta)
- 56 DTE / ideal duration to sell premium
Position
- entry: $123.95
- strategy: strangle
- structure:
short 02/17 195c (.10 delta)
short 02/17 75p (.12 delta)
- cost: $500 credit
- delta: 2.96
- theta: 13.867
- gamma: -0.86
- vega: -18.13
Targets
- Profit target: $250 total profit (50% of credit collected)
- SL target: -50% loss
- management strategy:
roll unchallenged side to higher delta to maintain at least .10 delta on each side
roll unchallenged side to higher delta (5 strikes) to collect additional credit (10% minimum of roll width)
exit position before earnings on 01/25/23
Opening (Margin): /MCL February 15th 67 Short Put... for a .54 credit.
Comments: An additive long delta adjustment trade, selling the +10 delta put. February position still leans a smidge short here with 33 days to go.
I'm indicating that this is "long" here because the delta of the position is long, not because I think oil goes up from here.
Closing (Margin): /MES February 15th 3910/4080 Short Strangle... for a 108.75 debit.
Comments: I collected a total of 95.75 for the two legs of this short strangle. Closing it out here on abysmally low IVR for a realized loss of (108.75 - 98.75)/.20 = $50.00.
In spite of taking off these last two short strangles as losers, net realized gain on primarily February 15th cycle /MES: 236.25.
Closing (Margin): /MES 3850/4120 Short Strangle ... for a 78.50 debit.
Comments: I received 73.25 total in credits for these legs; closing out her results in a realized loss of (78.50 - 73.25)/.20 = 26.25 ($26.25). I'm fine with doing this here, since IVR has plummeted to almost 52-week lows, implying that there is a risk that IV could expand from here. If that happens, I'd rather be in a setup with further out-of-the-money sides.
Opening (IRA): IWM Jan/Feb/March 169/160/155 Short PutComments: Laddering out here on weakness ... .
January 20th 169: 1.75 credit.
February 17th 160: 1.68 credit.
March 17th 155: 1.89 credit.
The weakness isn't "ideal" here, but I am relatively flat, so need to get theta out there and grinding. Will look to add at intervals over time.
Opening (Margin): /MES February 17th 3590/4160 Short Strangle... for a 46.00 credit.
Comments: Additive delta balancing. $230 max on buying power effect of $790. 29.1% ROC as a function of buying power effect at max; 14.6% at 50% max. Total credits collected off $478.75.
Will look to mix and match profitable call with profitable put and/or take the entire cannoli off in profit.
Opening (Margin): /ES April 21st 4800 Short Call... for a 3.35 credit.
Comments: On second thought ... . Re-erecting a short call here after taking off a shorter duration one at 50% max. This would be better done on strength, but I have some "unit imbalance" here on the put side (i.e., a greater number of put side units than call ones) and would rather keep the short call in place until I'm able to pull one or more of those units off, particularly since I get it buying power free here.