On 2/4 I rolled SLW Feb 15 puts to March 12.50 for roughly the cost of commissions. I was hitting my pain threshold that day and this was my trade furthest in the money – at the time. Alas, looking at this chart now I might have been OK holding through expiration.
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On 2/5 I rolled FEED Feb 5 puts to March 5 puts for a credit. The problem selling puts on these 5 dollar stocks is the lack of strike prices. I’m just moving these out further to capture some more time premium.
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I’ve rolled about a third of my February inventory to March now. I rolled IAG and HEAT for a loss and in hindsight I wish I would have gone further out in expiration to get more premium. Whenever I make an adjustment I need to try to roll these for a credit or breakeven at a minimum.
If we get some support next week I should still have an OK month as far as put selling and covered calls are concerned.
I’m pulling these charts from Finviz because I’m writing this on my netbook. I hope they turn out OK.
Sell to open MRVL March 17 puts before the close today. This is a small position in my IRA and gives me some exposure to semiconductors.
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. is a fabless semiconductor provider of application-specific standard products. The Company develops complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) devices using its technology portfolio of intellectual property in the areas of analog, mixed-signal, digital signal processing and embedded ARM-based microprocessor integrated circuits. Its product portfolio includes devices for data storage, enterprise-class Ethernet data switching, Ethernet physical-layer transceivers (PHY), handheld cellular, Ethernet-based wireless networking, personal area networking, Ethernet-based personal computer (PC) connectivity, control plane communications controllers, video-image processing and power management solutions. Its products serve diverse applications used in carrier, metropolitan, enterprise and PC-client data communications and storage systems. In addition, the Company serves the consumer electronics market for the convergence of voice, video and data applications.
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Sell to open Ultra Financials ProShares (UYG) March 6.00 covered calls. All the moving averages have flattened out on UYG so I’m writing some calls to capture some time decay. UYG is below the 50 and 100 day MA as well. I might consider converting this to a short strangle by selling some March 5 puts. I’ll see what tomorrow brings. UYG/XLF didn’t seem to drawn down nearly as much as the other indexes last week.
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