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Two new credit spreads...
Two bull put spreads opened (NOW & ASML)
Dan
Feb 192 min read
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A Minor Disappointment
After writing quite a few puts on AMD, and being assigned a few times... I'm now holding 300 - currently below my cost basis. I bought in...
Dan
Feb 51 min read
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Wow... I didn't realise it had been so long!
Ok so I last posted back in July! Geez...! I keep meaning to update the site, but got caught up with other things instead. Nevermind,...
Dan
Jan 224 min read
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Two new open trades and one expiry
First up, the July expiry BHP calls that I wrote back in May have expired. I keep the stock, and the premium.. Now I'll just wait until...
Dan
Jul 24, 20241 min read
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Last one for now.... another new trade
Sold out of some stock I had in the aus market, so I've got some cash lying around. I opened -28 cash secured puts on BHP for $42.51...
Dan
Jul 15, 20241 min read
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July has been busy, another trade opens
Sorry, last week was a busy week.... I opened 5 cash secured puts on DDOG at $120. Happy to own these, hence no need for a spread. $2.5k...
Dan
Jul 15, 20241 min read
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New credit spread on RIOT
With TLSA rallying hard, I didn't want to open a new bull put spread, and as of today, I think I've missed the timing for a good bear...
Dan
Jul 15, 20241 min read
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End FY24
1st anniversary results
Dan
Jul 15, 20241 min read
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Tesla trades closed out
As you're probably aware, Tesla rallied hard in the last few weeks, dropping the value of my bull put spread no almost nothing. As it's a...
Dan
Jul 15, 20241 min read
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More Tesla action for $14k
Updating my activity on Tesla. I had -5 cash secured puts open at $175 on Tesla which I received $7.64 premium. As they were expiring...
Dan
Jun 23, 20241 min read
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Two expiries, so two new trades on!
Last week I had some written calls expire on 16th May on my BHP stock in my retirement account, I also had my written Tesla puts expire...
Dan
May 27, 20241 min read
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1 year of tracking - 42.91%
So it's been one year now since I decided to properly track the progress of my trades, so here's the stats since May last year: I ran 14...
Dan
Apr 14, 20241 min read
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Tesla
With the big move in PLTR just recently I wasn't all that happy to write puts on it right away, so I went looking for something else I'd...
Dan
Apr 12, 20241 min read
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BHP again
As I've still got some BHP, every now and then when the price is up a little I write some more calls... I did that on the 11th April. I...
Dan
Apr 11, 20241 min read
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Palantir
Ok, lets talk a bit about what has happened here.... That's PLTR from Jan to Apr 2024. As you can see the price jumped up, that was on...
Dan
Mar 5, 20242 min read
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An expiry and a diagonal rollover
TLDR; BHP covered calls - rollover expired. PLTR - sold puts - diagonal rollout two weeks. Now, I haven't posted in a little while - two...
Dan
Jan 29, 20242 min read
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New trade on a new stock
If I want to trade in the US markets, for me, trading hours are either 12am-6am in winter, or 1am -7am in summer. That's the main reason...
Dan
Dec 19, 20231 min read
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An expiry and a rollover
Calls expired ITM! Rolled over to another month and higher strike, for a new premium.
Dan
Nov 20, 20232 min read
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New trade - a Nov exp sweet premium
New trade - 2.54% for 23 days
Dan
Oct 24, 20231 min read
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Flying with two wings
I opened a new position today. So now I have a short put position open and a short call position open. Or to explain it another way.......
Dan
Sep 26, 20231 min read
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