Archive for June, 2009

June options trades and expiration: DOW, BBT, HD & more!

This week was June options expiration and I had the following options positions expiring:

BB&T Corp. (BBT: 23.56 +1.90%, yld: 2.60%) – Some June 17.5-strike puts I sold against BBT on 1/7/09 expired out-of-the-money (OTM) for a 5-1/2-month net return of almost 13%.*
Dow Chemical (DOW: 26.47 +2.28%, yld: 2.32%) – Some June 7.5-strike puts I sold [...]