Rolling (IRA): SPY June 17th 370 Short Put to August 19th 340... for a 2.31 credit.
Comments: Part of a longer-dated strategy to emulate dollar cost averaging into the broad market. With the June 17th 370 at greater than 50% max, rolling it out to the <16 delta strike in shortest duration monthly paying at least 1% of the strike price in credit. Credits collected of 3.65 (See Post Below), plus the 2.31 here equals 5.96 relative to a short put value for the August 340 of 3.48, so I've realized gains of around 2.48 ($248) so far.
I considered rolling out to July, but still have rungs on in that expiry that I don't want to step on, so rolling out for longer duration here is more of a practical thing than a mechanical thing.
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Rolling (IRA): QQQ June 17th 265 Short Put to July 8th 267... for a 1.80 credit.
Comments: With the June 17th 265 at >50% max (finally), rolling it out to <16 delta strike in the expiry nearest 45 days until expiry paying around 1% of the strike price in credit. Collected 3.00 (See Post Below) plus the 1.80 here, for a total of 4.80 in credit.
Rolling (IRA): IWM July 1st 154 Short Put to July 8th 164... for a 1.04 credit.
Comments: With the July 1st 154 at greater than 50% max, rolling it out to the <16 delta strike in the expiry nearest 45 days paying at least 1% of the strike price in credit. Total credits collected of 1.64 (See Post Below) plus the 1.04 here, for a total of 2.68.
Opened: /ES July 17th 2200 Short Put... for a 3.05 credit.
Comments: Another late post I was unable to get to yesterday ... . I'm doing a few of these far out-of-the-money short puts in /ES as an engagement trade while I wait for the July mopex to come into the 45 days until expiry wheelhouse (it's currently 55 days out) for my general go-to setup (short strangles).
Rolling (IRA): QQQ May 27th 305 Short Put to July 1st 301... for a 3.30 credit.
Comments: Gotta roll, gotta roll, gotta roll. Rolling to the expiry/strike nearest 45 days paying around 1% of the strike price in credit. 6.50 collected so far with a cost basis of the short put strike (301) minus total credits collected (6.50) or 294.50 relative to where QQQ is currently trading at around 291.
Opening (IRA): IWM July 1st 154 Short Put... for a 1.64 credit.
Comments: Keeping on keeping on ... . I don't have much IWM on, so am selling something new in the July 1st expiry, targeting the <16 delta strike that is paying at least 1% of the strike price in credit to emulate dollar cost averaging into the broad market.
Rolling (IRA): IWM May 27th 183 Short Put to July 1st 179... for a 1.72 credit.
Comments: Staying mechanical and rolling to the strike nearest 45 days until expiry for a credit that is about 1% of the strike price. Total credits collected of 8.54. Although it's in-the-money, my cost basis is now the short put strike (179) minus total credits collected (8.54) or 170.46 relative to where it's currently trading at 176.40.
Opening: /ES June 17th 2950 Short Put... for a 3.20 credit.
Comments: Back into /ES far out-of-the-money short put here, after exiting all the rungs of my /ES short put ladder at the end of last week. Since delta value isn't very informative (my platform is showing this as a .01 delta strike, which isn't particularly helpful), I'm targeting the strike that is paying around 75% of the current price of /ES in the shortest duration that is paying 3.00 or so.