Options Trading
I have been trading options for a bit but starting to keep journal of my trades here. I have lost some serious money in it but also made some money, overall I am breakeven at this point. Based on my previous experience, I will avoid making big risky trades in options and keep my risk to $500 or less while I still learn this.
My current portfolio:
June 21 Expirations
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Strike Prices
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Cost
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Margin
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Notes
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Iron Condor
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195/200/205/210
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370 Credit
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$500
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Sold before trade war started. Now it is looking a loser trade.
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Iron Condor
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10/12.5/22.5/25
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$828 Credit
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$1750
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Strike prices are way out of 1 standard deviation. Pretty good ratio of reward to risk.
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Iron Condor
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150/160/190/200
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$361 Credit
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$1000
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Earnings are coming up. Could spike up or down after earnings. Though strike prices are around 1 standard deviations when I bought it, I lost big on INTU. Need to stop doing earning plays.
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Iron Condor
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48/52/55/59
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$361 credit
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$1200
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No earnings, 1 std. deviations away strike price when I bought it but $52 put is ITM. Probably should close this position if it keeps dropping
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Iron Condor
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47/51/56/60
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$383 credit
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$1200
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Bought this to try laddering but now I don’t like it. Too concentrated in one position. If Oracle keeps falling, I will lose $2400 instead of $1200.
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Iron Condor
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72.5/75/80/82.5
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$440
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$1250
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No earnings, 1 std. deviations away strike price. Looks like it is behaving as expected.
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Call Credit Spread
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12.5/13
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This was a mistake. Bought $13 call but it kept falling, I could have closed position but selling an opening $12.5 call earned me more credit. It is overall loser trade, will try to close it as soon as possible.
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June 28th Expirations
SPY Long Call at $295 expiration. When market was rising, I would buy calls and sell them at 20-30% profits. It was easy money. And whenever there was a dip, I would double my position and still come out ahead. Here I did same thing but market has not bounced back and unlikely to. I would lose almost $2000 here.
July 19th Expirations
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Strategy
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Strike Prices
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Cost
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Margin
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Notes
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Debit PUT Spread
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110/120
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$275
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Trade war and down trending market.
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Credit Call Spread
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186/187
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$119
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$400
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1 std deviation, trade war. Buying ETF reduced risk of huge spikes.
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I have been watching TastyTrade and OptionAlpha videos. A lot of useful information.