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Closing (Margin): /MES February 17th 3590 Short Put... for a 21.50 debit. Comments: Fixing part of my screw up in opening my additive delta adjustment short strangle (which I opened in the February 28th expiry instead of the February 17th). (30.00 credit (for this leg) - 21.50)/20 = .425 ($42.50) profit. I will now proceed to open a 13 delta short put in the February 28th expiry to replace it, but will still have the February 28th 3720 short put on as "an odd man out" for the time being.
CME_MINI:MES1!
by NaughtyPines
Opening (Margin): /MES February 28th 3720/4210 Short Strangle... for a 68.75 credit. Comments: An additive delta adjustment trade. (68.75/20) = 3.4375 ($343.75) credit. My original thought process was to just leave what I had on mostly alone running into CPI, but didn't like how the position had skewed out short, so am adjusting it here to net delta flat. I actually intended to open this in the February 17th contract, but am going to go ahead and leave it alone here. All this means is that I'll have to leg out of the sides one at a time versus closing the short strangle as a unit due to the fact that two corresponding legs will potentially be in different expiries.
CME_MINI:MES1!
by NaughtyPines
Opening (IRA): SMH Feb/March 170/154 Short Put LadderComments: My broad market positions are getting a little crowded and busy, so deploying some buying power into some sector ETF's, targeting the <16 delta strike paying around 1% of the strike price in credit. 30-day isn't bad here at 36.3%, but this isn't exactly as weak as it has been, so it's possible that a better entry could be had. Because of that, I'll look to potentially add should better opportunities present themselves. The goal here is to collect premium and/or to reduce cost basis in shares that you might be eventually assigned and not necessarily to get ideal entries; there is, after all, some "slop"/room to be wrong with these. That being said, being patient and getting paid something decent for a lower strike is always a good thing, since a lower strike means a smaller buying power effect. February 17th 170: 1.74 credit March 17th 154: 1.54 credit
NASDAQ:SMHLong
by NaughtyPines
Opening (IRA): IWM Feb/March 156/150 Short Put LadderComments: Added rungs in IWM on weakness, targeting the <16 delta strike in the shortest duration paying around 1% of the strike price in credit. I'm doing things a little differently than last year, where I basically sold the 45 DTE weeklies (assuming they were paying around 1% of the strike price in credit), but constantly had a lot of idle buying power, which is not the "maximal deployment" I was really shooting for, so am fiddling with doing things this way instead. Doing only two rungs here, since the <16 delta strike in January isn't paying 1%, and there isn't an April yet. February 17th 156 Short Put: 1.66 credit March 17th 150 Short Put: 1.77 credit
AMEX:IWMLong
by NaughtyPines
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Closing (Margin): /MCL February 15th 63/94 Short Strangle... for a 1.12 debit. Comments: Pairing profitable short put with profitable short call ... . I sold the 94 short call for .79 and the 63 short put for .80 as part of short strangles I put on at different times, for a total of 1.59. Closing out here for 1.12 result in a .47 ($47) realized gain. Still in the February 15th 66/91 for a 2.02 credit and the March 16th 55/103 for a .92 credit with the entire position leaning slightly long delta at the moment.
NYMEX:MCL1!
by NaughtyPines
Opening (Margin): SPX January 17th 3705/2 x 3735/3755 BWB*... for a 1.45 credit. Comments: Doing something a little bit funky here for me, targeting the current zero gamma level at around 3935 with my short options and erecting my longs out from there. Metrics: 1.45 credit on buying power effect of 8.55 with a max profit potential of 21.45. Delta 1.18; theta 4.46. A "perfect landing" would be at 3735 at expiry, but will take profit quickly if the opportunity presents itself. (Hitting a "perfect landing" is extremely rare, since it needs to be right at short put strikes right at expiry). * -- Broken wing butterfly. The 3705/3735 side is narrower than the 3735/3755 side to create a profit zone without any upside risk.
SP:SPXLong
by NaughtyPines
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Closing (Margin): /MES February 3540/4160 Short Strangle... for a 38.75 debit.* Comments: Mixing and matching profitable short call with profitable short put for a small realized gain ($35.00), leaving me with the 3590/4120, which I'll probably proceed to do an additive delta balance setup on here. * -- The credit and debit amounts take some getting used to. For example, a short strangle that routes for a 50.00 credit actually has a max of only 2.50 ($250) (i.e., 1/20th of what the table says you'll receive in credit).
CME_MINI:MES1!
by NaughtyPines