Archive for April, 2011

Option trades: Naked puts on BP, AMGN, INTC, MSFT, CSCO, AMAT, HPQ, WMT, GM, MDT & more!

I sold quite a few naked put options over the last several weeks/months as increased volatility in both the market and individual stocks presented some interesting option premium selling opportunities. This uptick in volatility came at a good time, as many of my previous naked put option positions had just expired out of the money [...]

Options expiration results (April): ABX, AXP, BBVA, HRB & more

I had a good number of naked put options positions expire this past week, all well out of the money (OTM). Consequently I’ve continued to initiate new naked put option positions as the older ones expire, as well as adjusted one or two others, all of which I’ll detail in an upcoming post (been getting [...]