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: 30.42 +2.67%, yld: 3.10%) – 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: 29.40 +1.17%, yld: 2.06%) – Some June 7.5-strike puts I sold [...]