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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Options trading : US Oil Fund ETF (USO) semi-bullish trade and Assignment

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Friday, 3/24/2023 (11:16 am, PT)

sell -1 March 24, 2023 $61 put at $0.16 (credit)
  • 0 DTE (expires in less than 2 hours)
  • prob ITM/assignment: 39% (high)
  • USO = $61.20

Friday, 3/24/2023 (1 pm, PT)  🠈🠈 expiration
  • USO closed at $60.96
  • My short put was in-the-money by $0.04
  • I could have tried to buy back my short put to avoid assignment, but the bid/ask spread was over $0.10
  • I chose to take the assignment
  • I had to buy 100 shares of USO at $61/share


Monday, 3/27/2023

USO jumped over $3/share, so I sold my 100 shares at $64.05 and took a quick profit.

TOTAL PROFIT:  $321 (in 2 trading days)