Simply Puts

Market volatility certainly picked up since last month’s options expiration but it didn’t affect my March-dated short put option positions, all of which expired well out of the money (see results below). Meanwhile, as option premiums went up and stocks went down, I continued to initiate new naked put option positions, which I’ll cover in [...]

Here’s a quick recap of last month’s (February’s) options expiration results, which were not especially eventful. I’ve also recently initiated a number of new naked put option positions, which I’ll get to in another post. February options expiration results: Beckman Coulter [[BEC]] – The February 50-strike put options I sold against BEC on 7/22/10 as [...]