This month’s options expiration was typical of most from my perspective as an options seller. It was yet another “payday” as I “closed the books” and officially collected the option premiums on the expiring naked put options and covered call options that I’d sold months earlier (see details below). Meanwhile I’ve also been busy initiating [...]
I only had two options positions expiring this options expiration (see below). Both of these naked put option positions were well out of the money going into expiration, and in fact I could have taken profits weeks ago but decided to save on commissions and let them “run out the clock.” I have also recently [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
