Options trade: SPX short call options (bearish trade)

Thu. 10/25/2018

Trade 1 (9:38:02 am, PT)  ← SPX around 2698

sell short -6 Oct 26, 2018  2715 calls at $11.30 (very nice premium!)

delta:  35.80


Trade 2 (1:01:11 pm, PT)

buy back calls at $10.40 (for a quick profit)

PROFIT:  $540


Comments:

• SPX continued to rise after I sold (to open) my short call options (bad!)

• At 11:49 am (2 hours later), SPX hit a high of 2722.33 and my calls were trading at $20.20 (I had a temporary "paper loss" of $5340!)  😖😨

• At 1:01 pm, PT, I decided to buy back my calls at $10.40 and take a quick profit because I wasn't sure if Amazon's earnings and Alphabet's (Google) earnings were going to be good or bad

• Amazon's earnings and Google's earnings turned out to be bad, so SPX dropped in the after-hours market 

• By 1:15 pm, PT, my call options were trading between $5.40 and $6.50 😩

• The greedy side of my brain wants to say, "I wish I had held my calls longer!"

• The conservative side of my brain says, "It's a good thing I took my profits because things could have gone the other way."

What would YOU have done in this situation??

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Options trade: SPX credit put spread (bullish trade)

Monday 10/8/2018 (Expiration Monday)

Trade 1 (10:21:22 am, PT)  ←  SPX around 2865

sell -6 Oct 8, 2018  2845 puts at $1.00
buy +6 Oct 8, 2018  2815 puts at $0.10

• net credit:  $0.90 x 6 x 100 =  $540 (max profit)
• margin:  $18,000

Trade 2 (10:44:15 am, PT)

buy back all 6 short puts (2845) at $0.20 to take profits and remove the risk

PROFIT:  $420 (in 23 minutes!)

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Options trade: SPX credit call spread (bearish trade)

Friday 10/5/2018 (Expiration Friday)

Trade 1 (9:53:29 am, PT)

buy +6 Oct 5, 2018  2905 calls at $0.10  ←  cheap wing
sell -6 Oct 5, 2018  2890 calls at $1.40 ←  18 delta

net credit:  $1.30 x 6 x 100 =  $780 (max profit)


Trade 2 (12:57:13 pm, PT)

buy back all 6 short calls (2890) at $0.10 to remove the risk

PROFIT:  $720 (in 3 hours)

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SPX credit call spread (options)

Monday, 10/1/2018 (Expiration Monday)

Trade 1 (10:16:44 am, PT)  ←  SPX between 2928.40 & 2929.20

buy +6 Oct 1, 2018  2950 calls at $0.05  ←  cheap wings
sell -6 Oct 1, 2018  2930 calls at $1.55  

net credit:  $1.50 x 6 x 100 =  $900 (max profit)
buying power reduction:  ($12,000)


Trade 2 (12:26:25 pm, PT)

buy back short calls (2930) at $0.10 to take profits and remove the risk

PROFIT:  $840 (2 hours, 10 minutes)

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